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Weird experience with Odometer tonight.....

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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 06:38 PM
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Default Weird experience with Odometer tonight.....

me and my sister were just driving on the freeway coming home.... and im like "hey, Samantha, look!... its gonna turn over to 150,000 miles..." then... all of a sudden..... JAMMED!! Both the odometer and trip meter stopped working during the turnover to 150,000.....

Then about 3 miles later.... i think to myself... maybe if i reset the trip odometer, they will start working again... voila!



so now my mileage will be off by about 3 miles.... o well.
Old Mar 25, 2003 | 07:24 PM
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LOL.... older Volvos have been known to do this also, due to the terrible build quality of the entire dash assembly. My old '82 240 DL would routinely just stop working randomly for 20-50 miles at a time, then come back on. Wasn't a loose cable, or anything - I tightened everything.
So when the car died at 202,202 (!), it actually had like 203,000 on it, at least. It was REALLY annoying, because along with the malfunctioning odometer, the gas gauge was horribly innaccurate as well, and I was forced to use mileage as a way to determine how much gas I had left. The number of times I nursed that car one....more....mile.... to get it to a gas station. Man... I perfected the art of 2nd gear launches, shifting straight to 4th, then hitting overdrive.




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