RE: Spider speedo & tacho

["Ken Ross" <Kdross@domain.elided>]

If it makes you feel any better, most Ferrari's do the same thing.  I was
once told that there was a technical reason as to why the speedometers don't
read below 20 MPH, but I have since long forgotten the reason.

Ken Ross


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
Carlo.Cardilli@domain.elided
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 3:05 PM
To: alfa@domain.elided
Subject: Re: Spider speedo & tacho


"Jay Lang" <Jay@domain.elided> wrote
>I have a 90 Spider and both the speedo and the tacho do not go to zero.  =
>The needle on the tach rests at about 400 rpms and the speedo rests at 18
=
>mph.  It has always been that way since I bought the car - I'm not sure =
>why I care now, but on the drive to work it really started bothering me.
=
>Has anyone experienced this phenomena?  Is there a solution?  TIA

My 86 Spider is the same, and I suspect this is true of all later model
Spiders.
I first noticed it after my speedo failed when I blew a fuse in the
cigarette lighter circuit
(go figure).  It wouldn't move but it was stuck on ~18.  Upon closer
inspection there seems to be
a backstop pin on both the speedo and tach that prevents the needle from
dropping below that minimum
reading.  At least that's the way it looks to me.  The minimum readings
bothered me for about a month after I noticed, and now I've just gotten
used to them.

Carlo
86 Spider Quad, SF

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