the car again works in mysterious ways

[ladycaviar]

I have discovered an interesting side effect of the speedometer quitting for good. Neither odometer moves at all.

This is fabulous news for the 3 months or 3,000 mile free top-off service for my oil changes, because I go through 3,000 miles long before 3 months are up. I'm looking for something positive in this, along the lines of "The earth will be destroyed tomorrow? Fabulous! Now I don't have to clean the bathroom!"

I wonder if I am condemned to own cars that are required to have non-working dashboard gauges. The Triumph had none whatsoever. At least I learned to judge speeds by the tachometer in that car, a very useful skill now as cops seemed to be everywhere this weekend. I remember before the Triumph died I did want to see how truly fast it could go once, on one of those long stretches in Wyoming. I had to judge speeds by how fast the mile markers went past, because I couldn't tell from the tach. When I floored it, I actually had to look back to see where the semi in the other lane went. The impression was that it had been vaporized by aliens or blew up, I accelerated so fast. Lovely. Last count, I was doing more than two mile markers a minute. Mmm. I miss that car. The Prelude tries to shake itself apart at 90.

But now that the speedometer is good and truly broken, that annoying sqeaky bird noise is gone. See? Optimism!

Comments

[keastree.livejournal.com]

Speedometer cable. Find some cute and handy guy to replace yours. Should fix you right up.

[simian-grudge.livejournal.com]

This is a Hon-doo that uses enough oil to need some added in less than 3000 miles. I'm thinking hanging that speedo on the wall as a sort of trophy - like an animal head on the den wall - and dropping the rest of the car in a deep hole somewhere might be a viable alternative.

Bad shakies and heavy oil use are generally a sign of something terminal and messy about to happen - usually on the Interstate at 3am. Be careful out there.

Taras