The Schwa

I'm thinking of going here:<ul><li><a href="http://www.odometergears.com/">http://www.odometergears.com/</a</li></ul>

RS4000

find a new cluster with reasonably close mileage.

vwfreak

fix them! its easy. all you have to do is knurl the shaft the metal gear sits on, so it doesn slide over the shaft any more.

The Schwa

so it's not commonly broken teeth...?

teach

Usually the gear cracks at the hole, rendering it loose enough for the shaft to spin without it.

Katman

Two common failure modes:

-Shaft with gear on it slides out, so gear isn't in engagement with the worm gear any more

or

-Gear starts slipping on shaft

Somebody has a pic of the problem in their poster.

It's not to hard to get to the problem. You just have to keep taking apart stuff until you get there..

-Take dash cover off to get at inst. cluster (4 hidden screws)
-Take cluster out (2 screws, and a few electrical connectors)
-take cluster apart
-take out speedo sub assembly
-Fix problem (and maybe any dash lights that are out, while you are at it!)

And, as Haynes manuals say:
"Assembly is the reverse of dissasembly" !

Orlando 4000S

Just tell everyone its "low mileage"...hehe. mines broke at 133,000

85-4kq-girl

Mine stopped not too many miles ago, so I'd like to nip it in the bud before it's more than 200 miles off.

--morgan

AudiSport4000

*kick*

AudiSport4000

They are pretty easy to fix. Ive had good luck and bad luck fixing them, kinda hit n miss with me.