Those things are like gold. Don't feel bad I have not heard of anyone
successfully restoring one on his own; you have to send them off for repair. I
have
3 or 4 non-working ones myself maybe now is the time to do it. Digging around
in old e-mails I found a couple speedometer repair places to check out:
North Hollywood Speedometer
(division of Pacific Parts and Instruments, Inc.)
6111 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91606
(818) 761-5136
http://www.nhspeedometer.com
Palo Alto Speedometer
718 Emerson St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301-2410
Tel: 650-323-0243
http://www.paspeedo.com/
Speedometer Plus
8916 Ellis Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90034
(877) 900-9009
http://www.speedometerplus.com
Also, the Siemens/VDO tech support site
http://www.vdona.com/Tech%20Support/repairpage.htm lists North Hollywood and
Palo Alto, along with 3 others:
NSI, Inc
1336 Oakland Ave.;
Greensboro, NC 27403
336-273-2881
http://www.speedchk.com/
United Speedometer
2431 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92507
909-684-0292
usimail@earthlink.net
http://www.speedometershop.com
Forster Instruments Inc.
John Anderson
Jeff Heal
7141 Edwards Blvd.
Mississauga, Ontario L5S 1Z2 CANADA
800-661-2994
800-632-9943
don.strongitharm@forsterinstruments.com
N.Hollywood and Palo Alto look good so far. If anyone has any recent
experience with any of the above please pass it along. Then I will call them
for
quotes maybe we can get a club group discount or something. Thanks a lot.
George
In a message dated 3/14/2004 3:25:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jhuckins@cybersurfers.net writes:
> Any leads? Speedo not working when I got the car in December, today was
> the day to see why. Pulled the dash, pulled the speedometer to find
> that it' really not meant to be serviced in any regular way. Face rim
> is crimped to the body case, once took radio vibrators apart to file
> points in the old days, screwdriver was the tool of choice to uncrimp
> enough to pull it apart. Did that here, not knowing how it would go
> back together in the recrimp dept. Turns out the helical hair spring
> for the needle is all wound up, no way to get it back into operational
> mode.
>
> You probably all know this but JIC with the dash out a jumper across the
> red and black wired socket that goes to the voltmeter (ampmeter,
> ammeter, whatever...) will allow the car to be drivable.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Les
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