In some states it is not legal to drive a car without a working speedometer. So you could get a ticket for this if stopped.

One thing you don't want to do when stopped for speeding is volunteer that your speedometer doesn't work right. Then you've got two tax/tickets to pay.

Ken300D

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1982 300D at 351K miles
1984 300SD at 217K miles
1987 300D at 370K miles

no gauges? hah, ive driven without an alternator for over a month because the shipper screwed up. Just charge the battery and go. XD

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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

As long as they would add one additional commandment for you to keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin (Wonder where he is now..)

1981 240d (engine donor 1983 240d) recently rebuilt engine hurray! - No more.. fought a tree and the tree won.

pearl black 1983 240d 4speed (Converted!@$$%) atleast the tranny was rebuilt.

Although around here getting your speedometer calibrated (or just having the mechanic SIGN that he calibrated it) is one way to have a ticket thrown out in court, on the grounds that you really didn't know your speed.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

In this state (California) and probably others you are responsible for your speed whether you have a speedometer or not and whether it is working correctly or not. You might get a sympathetic judge to throw out such a charge, depending on the circumstances.

Oh yes, you're also required to have a speedometer in the car. When my 87's was out for odometer repair (I sent just the speedo unit, protected the needle by taping a small box over it) I mounted my GPS on the dash, used it as the speedo. Whether a cop would have accepted it is another question, but I never got to find out.

Jeremy

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

I'd just drive it without the cluster. I drove my SD with a dead speedo and every other guage was flacky for two years.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

ZERO chance of that excuse flying in Texas!

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Hmm, just goes to show you every state is different. When i got my 70 in a 55, the lawyer told me "Since this is your first offense, we should be able to get it reduced at least below insurance point without any trouble, you won't even need to go get your speedometer calibrated".

Reduced to "improper equipment" with me never having to go to court. Didn't touch the insurance and I therefore still have a car

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

Seems a little silly, why bother going to court over a speeding ticket unless you were caught going ridiculously fast (in which case the speedometer excuse probably won't help anyway)?

anytime.....

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

Cluster in hand and should be at the selected drop off site tomorrow morning for you to pick up Friday.

I lost my cell ph in the process of pulling it. I'm going back up there today to see how much bovine abuse it may have received in 24hrs. Hopefully its safe in the SD parts car.

Speedometer..............Dallas driving.............ticket for speeding? Haven't driven in Dallas lately, have you?

I drive in Dallas 3-5 days a week and you would have to be flying low at 25-30mph+ over posted speed in most cases to be noticed. A bunch of folks there think they drive 200mph cars. Unless, of course, you are a single occupant car in the waste-of-taxpayer-dollars, politically correct HOV lane.

Unless it's a severely low revenue month, all the police are busy in Oak Cliff.

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Sam

84 300SD 350K+ miles ( Blue Belle )

Now I know where the oil on EVERYTHING under my dash came from...