This reminds me that I forgot to mention when I got this 240D that on this car
I'm going to ONLY push the trip reset while the car is moving. I think the
theory that it breaks the tip is an old wives tale, I don't understand how it
could possibly put any more strain on the thing...
As to your
It is a myth that resetting the trip meter while in motion will damage anything.
Regardless, the odometer has nothing to do with the cruise control.
Allan
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1983 300D
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:06 -0600, David White kathma...@cableone.net wrote:
A question, could a stripped trip odometer cause
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:06:25 -0600 David White kathma...@cableone.net
wrote:
A question, could a stripped trip odometer cause the cruise control to
intermittently fail?
Stripped as in pushing in the reset while moving and now the odometer
doesn't work and the cruise control works, some times
Sounds to me like you need to implement the Jim Cathey plan: Test to isolate
component at fault (my bet is on the CC circuit board), and then fix or replace.
I'll bet that if you re-solder all the circuit board connections, your troubles
will be vanquished.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
It is a myth that resetting the trip meter while in motion will damage
anything.
I beg to differ. It's a fine distinction but one that doesn't matter
in practice. If your tripmeter gears are already loose, resetting
could a stripped trip odometer cause the cruise control to
intermittently fail?
No, not really. Spastic operation is almost always the
solder joints failing in the amplifier. My wife's 560SL
has just started acting up that way. One of our last ones
to _not_ have this problem. I've also had
