OK, I'm in the process of selling my daughters' 82 240D, and today I drove 45 miles to let a few people from St. Louis check it out. Up till now, everything on the dash works fine(Speedo, odo and trip). It has 196,308 last time I checked it when I got to the Home Depot parking lot. I rode as one guy test drove it. Nothing bad, just a test drive. Next guy, same thing. But about 5 minutes into the drive, they guy notices the odomotors' not moving. The trip still has 49.9 from the trip up there and the first test drive. We hit the trip and it clears back to 0, then goes up to .9 and stops. As long as it's turning, the odo is working, but it keeps stopping at .9, and the odo stops when it stops. Clear it, it starts again, till it gets back to .9(?) What the heck is going on?? I advertised this, with pride, that everything works, then it screws up on the first looker. The second guy probably would have bought it, but he felt "uncomfortable" with the idea that is was supposed to be working, as in, i might be lying about the actual mileage. Ouch!

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1951 Chevy 3100

2003 Indian Chief Roadmaster

1983 GMC 1 ton Dually

1982 Chevy 1 ton Dually, service body (sold)

'90 GMC Suburban 6.2 "SS Veg-Burban"
(single tank WVO\diesel conversion) SOLD

'81 300D ~ Mama's car...my job (now my car)(but still my job) SOLD

'83 300sd ~ rescue car SOLD

2005 Ford Taurus (Mama's new car)(NOT my job!)

Check out the Dieselgiant site. But, you don't need to take absolutely everything apart. Once you get the shaft pulled out 1/2 inch, you can bite down on it with a needle-nose vice grip, then slide it back together. As long as the gear doesn't slip on the shaft, you're good to go.

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1982 300CD Petrol/Black Leather

How to Repair Your Broken Odometer:

http://dieselgiant.com/repairyourodometer.htm

This is an extremely common problem on these cars. Between my three Benzes, I've had four broken odometers.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Thanks for the quick replies, guys! I'll check these sites out right now. So, I'm assuming there's a gear between the two (trip\odo) that keeps the odo from moving when the trip stops. No brainer. But, what might be the cause of the trip suddenly starting to stick at .9? Could this guy have done something while I was talking to the next prospective buyer that would do this? I mean, this is just too weird that all of a sudden when some stranger is checking out the car that it just quits working.

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1951 Chevy 3100

2003 Indian Chief Roadmaster

1983 GMC 1 ton Dually

1982 Chevy 1 ton Dually, service body (sold)

'90 GMC Suburban 6.2 "SS Veg-Burban"
(single tank WVO\diesel conversion) SOLD

'81 300D ~ Mama's car...my job (now my car)(but still my job) SOLD

'83 300sd ~ rescue car SOLD

2005 Ford Taurus (Mama's new car)(NOT my job!)

Just a fluke it stopped when you were selling the car, stopping on "9" is the classic way it dies. Your going to have to do the "odo fix" as described above, happens to most of us.

check out Odometer repair no longer working :-(

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

At .9 its about to roll over another number drum. The combined weight of both drums revolving causes the intermediate gear to slip on the shaft! Years ago I moved the little gear over, dabbed some super glue on the serrated shaft and slid the gear back in place. Viola, worked ever since. What causes it, age and someone resetting the trip meter while the cars moving.

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