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Old 03-19-2013, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by gatorblue92 View Post
My understanding is that the odometer gears begin to slip with age and at one point will fail completely. I know this is very common in the W123 cars and I would assume the W126 uses a similar odometer which will fail the same way. Do a search for diesel giant since there is a nice write up there for repairing the odometer.
I don't doubt that, but slipping exactly and precisely 10.0% for 15000 miles points to something else I would argue.
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