Accy cyclist
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I had a colleague who detached the cable to keep the mileage down. What a scumbag.
Never mind that, how do you do it?!
The cable, which span internally - went from the back of the speedo into the gearbox, attached each end by a knurled wheel.
You could unscrew it from either end, although access to the gearbox end was often easier.
That would prevent the speedo from working, and prevent the odometer from recording more miles.
Turning the odometer back was another dark art.
A motor trader friend of mine had a selection of bent wires to reach the little drums with the numbers on.
Trouble was it was easy to scratch the drum with the wire, making the 'clocking' obvious.
To prevent that, he used to cap the wire end with the narrow gauge bits of rubber tube found on the end of the core of some bicycle tyre valves.
After I passed my driving test, my parents went on holiday and left me with the car, a lot of revision, and a strict mileage limit for the week. Just so I could get to the Central Library and back. It was possible to reach up under the dash and unscrew the knurled wheel without any tools, and I spent many a happy hour without a clue how fast I was going, but recording no miles whatsoever. In my defence, I was only 17, and the car was scrapped 30 years ago, so any harm is long in the past.The cable, which span internally - went from the back of the speedo into the gearbox, attached each end by a knurled wheel.
You could unscrew it from either end, although access to the gearbox end was often easier.
That would prevent the speedo from working, and prevent the odometer from recording more miles.
I had a colleague who detached the cable to keep the mileage down. What a scumbag.
The cable, which span internally - went from the back of the speedo into the gearbox, attached each end by a knurled wheel.
You could unscrew it from either end, although access to the gearbox end was often easier.
That would prevent the speedo from working, and prevent the odometer from recording more miles.
Turning the odometer back was another dark art.
A motor trader friend of mine had a selection of bent wires to reach the little drums with the numbers on.
Trouble was it was easy to scratch the drum with the wire, making the 'clocking' obvious.
To prevent that, he used to cap the wire end with the narrow gauge bits of rubber tube found on the end of the core of some bicycle tyre valves.
After I passed my driving test, my parents went on holiday and left me with the car, a lot of revision, and a strict mileage limit for the week. Just so I could get to the Central Library and back. It was possible to reach up under the dash and unscrew the knurled wheel without any tools, and I spent many a happy hour without a clue how fast I was going, but recording no miles whatsoever. In my defence, I was only 17, and the car was scrapped 30 years ago, so any harm is long in the past.
This thread could feature in the other thread about invented phrases and words changing their meaning. Once upon a time, the devices in question would have been called "digital", because they clearly displayed the measured quantity in numbers, as opposed to an analogue device which displayed results by the movement of a needle along a scale or some such. The distinction then was "electrical" v "mechanical". A speedometer would then have pretty well always been analogue and mechanical; a mileometer pretty well always digital and mechanical. Now, as demonstrated by this thread, "digital" has come to mean "electronic". (Which, for anyone following the other thread, I still claim is a natural part of the evolution of language, as opposed to yet a sign of the evil and degenerate times we live in).
On the older cars you just reached behind the speedo and unscrewed the cable.Never mind that, how do you do it?!
Tube train , especially the old Ham n city line stock was great for that.Ha ha. You see, these days you can buy a cheapissimo computer from LiDL and then just leave it by the laptop and it'll do at least 45mph just sitting there. More confusingly, I put it down on a worktop in the kitchen this afternoon and found it doing 75 mph and it was nowhere near any electrical device. It didn't click though....