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e30 odometer stopped working

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hi all

drove the e30 for the first time in a few weeks today and noticed the the odometer has stopped ticking over. speedo is working fine aswell as all the other gauges.

Any help is appreciated

thanks

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i find it funny that its a supposedly a common fault, i have no doubt it is, but in over 25 E30s passed through my ownership now not one has had a dead odo!

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True. The way some issues get bandied about you'd think that every car fitted with that particular speedo / gear-box / engine etc. was affected by the problem.

So far I am one from three on the odometer issue.

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I have a set of odo gears for any one interested :)

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I had this fault on 1 of 2 e30s I had. Got gears from Garagistic. The fix is easy.

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Ive got a spare set of motometer ones

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Very cheap and easy fix, took 20 minutes and patience.

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have done a few over the years e30 e28 e24 early e34 etc , just old plastic that crumbles,

maybe some of your guys cars have had the repairs already

also I remember when working at another wreckers , had a guy went through about 12 clusters on the shelf before finding a e30 one that worked

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Does anyone in nz stock these for a reasonable price? 

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34 minutes ago, manamari said:

Does anyone in nz stock these for a reasonable price? 

There's a small market for these.
I've wondered about stocking some things like this. The odd bits that the other guys tend not to keep.

On a related note - how do I test a cluster when it's out of the car?

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2 minutes ago, manamari said:

What's garagistics shipping to nz? Surely the gears could be 3d printed in nz way cheaper 

I'm sure they could, and it's probably not worth buying just the gears from them.

Get some polybushes or something else useful, and add the gears to the order. The VDO gearkit is USD17, the Motometer one is $30. Worldwide shipping is USD 13.95.

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