My wife used the car today for the first time by herself and reset the trip odometer. I noticed right away she had done this. Then I noticed that the odometer number wheels were not aligned any longer. (They were fine since I purchased the car.)

Is this something that I can fix easily? A DIY job?

Odo still works, but now hard to read. Trip odo works fine. Any help and hints appreciated. Thank you.

(edit: sorry, image didn't need to be so large to make the point. Re-posted with 1/2 size image.)

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Its very hard to explain but i think you may be able to fix this..

inside the cluster.. the number wheels run on a thin metal shaft.. The end of the shaft goes into this plastic piece to hold the wheels straight. Over time the shaft can pull out of place and "fall" for lack of better words....

I know that the Trip odometer does somehow affect the odometer itself.. i dont remember specifics.

TIP: Do not pull the shaft out, just try and replace the shaft into place. If you pull the shaft out, not only will you have to put the numbers back, but you will have to line them up and put the propper metal clips back in between the numbers,, for some this could be confusing.. and do not touch the number on the wheels. . If i remember correctly the numbers rub off or fade very easily...maybe they did this for odometer fraud,, not sure

Be prepared to do this again.. for some reason, once it happens, it continues to happen again..

Thank you, Evan. Took the coupe into Enrique of Mr. MBMotors fame and while the car was being serviced by his assistant, I asked him to show me how to pull the instrument pod out of the dash so I could take a look and hopefully fix the thing.

He grabbed his pull tools and warned me about pulling too much as it could damage the instruments. Enrique ended up pulling with almost all his might to pull the cluster out. After dissassembly, he came over to take a look at it, and sure enough, the wheel shaft had slipped out. A simple push re-inserted it into proper position. He was lamenting how much speedo shops charge for such a simple procedure.

The key to keeping it from popping out again is to somehow squeeze the shaft to flatten it so it wouldn't pull out by itself again. Now sure how this can be done, but a good strong vice grip with long enough handles to get some leverage on it might do the job.

Next time I have to fix it, I'll know how. Thank you for your help.

The way I made mine stay fixed was to remove the little metal wheel from the end of the shaft, while NOT letting the shaft come out of the other wheels. Then I used a punch next to the hole on both sides to tighten the hole slightly and put it all back together.

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