What causes a euro odometer to.....

[Kyle in NO]

click off digits faster than a US one?? Is it simply a function of the odo gears having a different number of teeth on them??

If so, couldn't I just change one of the gears to make a Euro odo click off the proper miles?

Thanks,
Kyle in NO

[al525i]

the euro odo clicks off faster because it measures kilometers, not miles.

obviously a kilometer is a shorter distance than a mile so it clicks off faster.

and as far as how it does it, i don't know but it cant be much difference in the two

hope this helps.

[Kyle in NO]

Well yeah, I know that! I was just wondering if it is simply a mechanical thing with the gearing, or does the little electric motor spin faster or something like that.

I have a sneaking suspicion its just the little gears that are different...

Kyle in NO

[shifty]

The German mice in the cluster run faster than the Amurricun ones in our clusters. DUH.

Stupid. . .

[Guest]

Kyle,

It's the gearing inside the speedo that drives the odo. SO in teory you could swap the gears and have the speedo indicating in KPH while the odo is registering Miles.

Rich