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Clicking Over!!
beetleboy88 - January 13th, 2010 at 08:33 PM

My odometer clicked back over to 00000 km's today! I managed to tape it. check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3pC6pcn4U 

By the way ignore my dick head commentary during the vid lol. I got a bit excited!! :lol:


Joel - January 13th, 2010 at 08:50 PM

hope u pulled into a servo for fuel after that


beetleboy88 - January 13th, 2010 at 08:54 PM

haha nah fuel gauge is BUGgered. been like that since I've had it. I did get it 'fixed' but it still doesn't work properly. I dunno what it is. new sender unit and everything!! I just keep a little log book in the glove box and every 350-400k's fill her back up ;)


Joel - January 13th, 2010 at 08:55 PM

400kms :crazy: wow u get grandma economy

either that or its a standard engine :lol:


beetleboy88 - January 13th, 2010 at 09:02 PM

well 400kms roughly. iv'e ran outta fuel a few times. the 10L jerry can is usually in the car at all times (unfilled of course....don't wanna blow up in a ball of fire). Yeh complete stock im thinking


Joel - January 13th, 2010 at 09:05 PM

i'd forgotten what 35mpg was like again till i got away from vw motors :lol:


ryana89 - January 13th, 2010 at 10:44 PM

How many times has it done that? Love the language:lol:


beetleboyjeff - January 13th, 2010 at 11:22 PM

I have seen mine do that 4 out of the 5 times - the first time was before I owned the car.


rose - January 14th, 2010 at 07:07 AM

Can I have some of what your on. If that excites you that much. lol


Joel - January 14th, 2010 at 08:27 AM

its them vw heater fumes again.

must be cold up there in cairns at the moment??


Phil74Camper - January 14th, 2010 at 09:15 AM

I saw my old '64 do it three times, once with its original MPH speedo then twice more with a km metric speedo. My Kombi has only done it once but is due for 200,000 km sometime in 2012 I reckon.

My Golf Mk3 has passed 100,000 km but it wasn't exciting - its odometer is an LCD display and it just adds an extra digit! It will have to pass 999,999 km to get back to zero. Not impossible for a Volkswagen.


Joel - January 14th, 2010 at 10:23 AM

something i only found out the other day i dont know how many vws it affects but the mid 90s model jettas atleast with the digital odometer go back to 000000 when they hit 300k

till they get to that point they just say "total" above the odo
that dissapears once they reset


wilderness - January 14th, 2010 at 12:15 PM

thats awesome beetleboy!!!! hahaha


beetleboy88 - January 14th, 2010 at 07:51 PM

yeh i got tad excited hey?? lol. I must lead a boring life? Although that's probably the most coolest thing i have seen my beetle doing so it was worth taping it


greasykitchen - January 14th, 2010 at 08:41 PM

When I had my bug it rolled over to zero just before I pulled into my drive. I thought it was pretty cool at the time. I took this snap later:

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh297/greasykitchen/VWs/Speedo.jpg

And the fuel gauge didn't work either. Ran outta gas enough times to the point where the last time it happened I had a full jerry can onboard (probably not wise). You just know you're gonna run out when you have spare fuel on you (I was only down the road from home too).


amazeer - January 15th, 2010 at 01:55 AM

My old man had a Bil lCosby comedy tape when I was a kid. He did a sketch about how his son borrowed the car, and when Bill got in it the next morning it was empty. How could you possibly time it to run out of fuel as you pull in the driveway? Very funny. Except I managed to do it too at my girlfriends house once. I drove there, no problems. Went to drive away, wouldnt start. My fuel gauge worked well when full, then at 1/4 tank it dropped to empty.


jjwebb123 - January 15th, 2010 at 02:31 PM

hey ive been on that road LOL.