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OHHh!! dont talk about speedo cables Nannycatch, ours went a couple of weeks ago on the Swift Sundance....... 7 garages later its still not done   apparently the speedo cable and clock is working, its something in the gear box that drives the speedo has gone. The first Fiat dealer quoted me £350 + vat plus £38 for just looking at it......... 7 garages later I have found one than can do it will cost £250 + vat and thats is the cheapest I can find. Arggggg!! just for a speedo.

Hope you have better luck than me.

Quote: Originally posted by dot on 10/5/2006

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OHHh!! dont talk about speedo cables Nannycatch, ours went a couple of weeks ago on the Swift Sundance....... 7 garages later its still not done   apparently the speedo cable and clock is working, its something in the gear box that drives the speedo has gone. The first Fiat dealer quoted me £350 + vat plus £38 for just looking at it......... 7 garages later I have found one than can do it will cost £250 + vat and thats is the cheapest I can find. Arggggg!! just for a speedo.

Hope you have better luck than me.

 

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My speedo lies, it requires a new cable also and my garage man said he would sort something out when I had the oil changed the other day - whatever that means - but atleast I know it lies but I do like to watch it jiggle about while im going from 20 to 40 at 60 its fine its just between the lower speeds. Oh glad I don't have a swift.

C of the C & A

mine needle used to float about but i was lucky it only needed tightening behind the speedo head

                 mike

Hi

just a thought why not use the dust cap fronm the other side and reproduce the hole (sorry square) and swap them over.

owned loads of vw's and never had the hole in the dust cap wear!!

as far as i can remember there are two types of speedo drive connectors to the speedo one clips on and the other screws on

the clip on ones are prone to breaking and then dont push the little sqare drive into the speedo head might be worth investigating.

hope this helps

I have just replaced my cable but the cap was ok but noticed just campers have them http://217.29.195.146/FMPro?-db=wproducts.fp5&-format=detail.htm&-lay=cgi&-sortfield=name&-sortorder=descend&Find%5fWeb=T3&Megasearch=speedo&-max=10&-recid=33431&-token.0=13516629&-find==