Just now, Johnglx said:

I will realy like to know how will your car service goes let say example: you have brakes failure on car.

You call or visit Skoda service to make arrange for car repair.

They work from 9am to 17pm.

And you must go to work at 10am.

Will you stay in service until car will be fixed and you make study there about your customer rights or you will trust car service quality work and you will deliver the car and leave it there and you go to work?

I will realy like to read how car service goes in your country?

There is no Skoda service in my country. I don't go to any car service. I learned to do everything myself on my own time, with my own tools, in my own garage.

As for car service in my country, some garages work well, some don't. Almost all try to rip you off. They succeed only when the owner has no technical knowledge and/or doesn't know his rights as customer.

26 minutes ago, Johnglx said:

Do you know if just odometer can be removed from speedo clock and replaced with kph counter

Is that option possible?

Yes, it is. Takes a couple of minutes to do.

 

On 14/03/2018 at 01:06, Johnglx said:

Hi guys.

I will like to found the solution for very big problem with Skoda odometer.

The car is year 2000 and we have not many problems with this model.

There was some factory faults which almost every Felicia owners have.

But what is going on with distance meter is mission impossible.

The original odometer is start to stuck some years ago at distance meter which measure distance in kilometers.

This is common fault with this instrument so we decide to replace with new one in oficial Skoda car service.

My first observation after odometer replacement was that we got different odometer model. It was not the same model like original before.

So i check the speed readings and was normal. The problem is that we did not check distance meter for years.

After years  of driving this car we found that distance meter shows too small kilometers. We found interesting explanation when distance number is converted to miles the distance readings are correct!

How is that possible? Odometer with km/h speed meter and km distance meter shows miles instead of kilometers?

Any explanation for this puzzle?

Thank you.

 

Does it really matter, the car is 18 years old. 

 

To be totally honest spend money on a part that did not affect the actual running and safety of an 18 year old car is money wasted.

 

Just use it and when it dies get another.

9 minutes ago, RainbowFire said:

Yes, it is. Takes a couple of minutes to do.

 

Hi.

You show me complete speedo clock.

My question was for counter only.

Do you have link for this spare part?

Thank you.

8 minutes ago, Johnglx said:

Hi.

You show me complete speedo clock.

My question was for counter only.

Do you have link for this spare part?

Thank you.

 

http://www.cc-autodily.cz/rychlomer-do-6-99

 

I never needed (or was curious enough) to strip the clock down to it's component parts.

Thanks.

On 19/03/2018 at 13:40, RainbowFire said:

 

http://www.cc-autodily.cz/rychlomer-do-6-99

 

I never needed (or was curious enough) to strip the clock down to it's component parts.

 

I did with my old one after changing my instrument cluster from standard grey to yellow fun truck style yesterday and made a clock from the plastic backings.

12 minutes ago, lotrjw said:

 

I did with my old one after changing my instrument cluster from standard grey to yellow fun truck style yesterday and made a clock from the plastic backings.

Yellow color looks nice.

Where did you found this color instruments or this is complete cluster?

10 minutes ago, Johnglx said:

Yellow color looks nice.

Where did you found this color instruments or this is complete cluster?

 

It was a complete cluster and I found it on ebay by accident really. I was thinking I might not find the yellow and otherwise would have just got the speed clock in metric, it was just a good find though.

 

@lotrjw - Nice piece of crafting making the clock, and it does confirm what I've been saying all along that it's possible to put a km+kpm speedometer backing card on a km geared head (or vice versa.

1 hour ago, KenONeill said:

@lotrjw - Nice piece of crafting making the clock, and it does confirm what I've been saying all along that it's possible to put a km+kpm speedometer backing card on a km geared head (or vice versa.

 

True, after changing them over and taking the old one apart, I was surprised with what ease I could access the inside of the ODO and change the numbers! As old one is now not used I took it back to 0 to see how easy that was. 

You can do it the long way of winding it backwards using the white cog that goes in tenths, or you can sort of make it skip with a bit of effort, meaning that you can get the thousands and tens of thousands to move to 0 quickly!

Its then easy to put back together as if nothing had been changed, so its no wonder people 'clock' cars and knock off thousands of miles or kilometres if they think they can get away with it.

Im glad that the MOT records the mileage of vehicles, that way you can get an idea of if its been tampered with suspiciously and deceitfully.   

I plan to let anyone who I sell the car too know there has been a clock change and show them a picture of the two clocks together that I took before fitting the new one so Im legal. I dont actually plan on selling the car though, but best to stay legal.

4 hours ago, KenONeill said:

@lotrjw - Nice piece of crafting making the clock, and it does confirm what I've been saying all along that it's possible to put a km+kph speedometer backing card on a miles geared head (or vice versa.

Error corrected!

11 hours ago, KenONeill said:

@lotrjw - Nice piece of crafting making the clock, and it does confirm what I've been saying all along that it's possible to put a km+kpm speedometer backing card on a km geared head (or vice versa.

 

Whlist the needle calibration would be the same, the odometers would be different: the km would turn 1.6 revolutions in 1 mile.

11 hours ago, RainbowFire said:

 

Whlist the needle calibration would be the same, the odometers would be different: the km would turn 1.6 revolutions in 1 mile.

Which is exactly what I said back on page 1!

40 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

12 hours ago, RainbowFire said:

 

Whlist the needle calibration would be the same, the odometers would be different: the km would turn 1.6 revolutions in 1 mile.

Which is exactly what I said back on page 1!

 

I guess its all down to the metal circular think at the back of the speedo/odo mechanism? Anyway the speedo needle has to be the same on both, as it has to read  0-200km/h and 0-120mph in the same space. Also the UK one does both scales at once in a weird way.

45 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

Which is exactly what I said back on page 1!

 

Alcohol and time have been involved since page 1

On 19/03/2018 at 14:11, RicardoM said:

There is no Skoda service in my country. I don't go to any car service. I learned to do everything myself on my own time, with my own tools, in my own garage.

As for car service in my country, some garages work well, some don't. Almost all try to rip you off. They succeed only when the owner has no technical knowledge and/or doesn't know his rights as customer.

Which country you mean? UK have no Skoda car service?

10 hours ago, Johnglx said:

Which country you mean? UK have no Skoda car service?

I have no clue where you've gathered I live in the UK. I was born and I live in the Dominican Republic. For now I am working abroad, in Canada. I plan to move to Europe with my family.

Hi.

 

Do not get upset.

You never answer me when i put a question where are you from.

So how can i know?

Welcome to Europe....

11 hours ago, Johnglx said:

You never answer me when i put a question where are you from.

You have never asked.

11 hours ago, Johnglx said:

So how can i know?

See my avatar to the left? See the Location field? It gets updated each time I travel to another country.