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When did your odometer fail?

<50,000 miles
2
2%
60,000 miles
1
1%
70,000 miles
2
2%
80,000 miles
2
2%
90,000 miles
4
4%
100,000 miles
5
5%
110,000 miles
8
9%
120,000 miles
4
4%
130,000 miles
6
7%
140,000 miles
5
5%
150,000 miles
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8%
160,000 miles
4
4%
170,000 miles
4
4%
180,000 miles
2
2%
190,000 miles
5
5%
200,000 miles
2
2%
210,000 miles
1
1%
220,000 miles
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230,000 miles
1
1%
240,000 miles
1
1%
>250,000 miles
1
1%
It hasn't
24
26%
 
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POLL: When did your odometer fail?

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If it's failed two or more times, please vote for the first incident.
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Post by alschnertz »

When mine failed at 184,000 miles, it was because the original owner tried resetting the trip meter while driving.
Which is a very common reason for failure.
But why did it take her 14 years and 184K miles to figure out not to do that?
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Post by rspi »

The ODO in my wagon asn't failed. Likely because it has the trip computer and no one resets it.

My Yellow one failed at 102,000.

I seen one at 350,000+ which has never failed.
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Post by Ben850 »

I love the question as to "when". Its kind of like death and taxes.
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Post by anmartin44 »

we've had four '94 850's in our family and both of the VDO gears failed at 160 k and 185k but neither of the yazaki cluster gears have failed and they're at 257k and 190k.
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NEVER!

Mwahahaha. S70's for the win!
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Post by obayha »

jblackburn wrote:NEVER!

Mwahahaha. S70's for the win!
I'll go with never also.
Must be something about the southern cars.
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Post by jblackburn »

Or that they don't have a gear in the speedo like the 850s. It's all electronic on these cars. :)
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1998 V70, no dash lights on

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2004 V70 R [gone]

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Post by vankov »

I have the YAZAKI cluster, currently showing 260k km, still OK (from what I understand they do not fail at all), (I did reset it while driving most of the time).
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