Tried this, using the much suggested two spoons method to get under the needle to pry it off the speedometer. It's hard to tell how much leverage you're applying to that needle, and when something when POP and the needle plus its shaft plus some of that coil spring comes up through the hole you think softly in your mind, "oh *****". Snapped the thin little shaft that goes to the back of the gauge. No way that's going back together.

Lucky for me, I had a spare cluster or two hanging around so in goes a new speedometer gauge into the cluster. Bummer now that I have to do math now to arrive at the actual miles on the car.

I actually daydreamed about swapping out the mechanical gauge for an electronic one and dialing in the correct ODO in the process.

Anybody play with any aftermarket type speedometers? Maybe tuck away the original one under the dash, just so that it could drive the pulse counter for the brake control system, but use that pulse to also drive the electronic speedometer..

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Scott McPhee

1987 300D