Trip odometer stuck
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Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Las Vegas
1987 190E 2.3
You can try pushing it pretty hard a few times, worked for me. If that doesn't work then it will need to be fixed at a speedo shop or such.
Just make sure you don't push it while the car is moving.
Just make sure you don't push it while the car is moving.
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Joined: Jul 2010
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When the trip odometer does not work it is most likely because the plastic loops that hold the reset pin have broken through. the plastic loops surrounding this pin are less than a millimeter thick. Also, resetting the odometer torques one of the two plastic loops that hold the pin in, which can break it.
It is truely a flawed design. It's failure can result in either of two things: The trip odometer fails and stays seperate from the main odometer or
The trip odometer jams the main odometer and they both fail to roll.
Take the mechanism out and inspect it but do not remove the speedometer needle or faceplate. I learned the hard way NOT to remove the faceplate on the w201 models. The speedometer will lose calibration.
Sometimes the metal pin in the center of the gears slides out of its holder, preventing the gears from driving, but it usually happens on the main odometer.
And right on about NOT pushing it while moving...
It is truely a flawed design. It's failure can result in either of two things: The trip odometer fails and stays seperate from the main odometer or
The trip odometer jams the main odometer and they both fail to roll.
Take the mechanism out and inspect it but do not remove the speedometer needle or faceplate. I learned the hard way NOT to remove the faceplate on the w201 models. The speedometer will lose calibration.
Sometimes the metal pin in the center of the gears slides out of its holder, preventing the gears from driving, but it usually happens on the main odometer.
And right on about NOT pushing it while moving...
