Never seen this flaw mentioned...
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I've never seen anyone mention this, but don't you find it really irritating that the bottom of the speedo needle obscures the trip meter when you're doing a moderate rate of knots?
VDO really shouldn't have let that one off the drawing board. <img border="0" alt="[nono]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" />
VDO really shouldn't have let that one off the drawing board. <img border="0" alt="[nono]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" />
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by John Boggiano:
<strong>I've never seen anyone mention this, but don't you find it really irritating that the bottom of the speedo needle obscures the trip meter when you're doing a moderate rate of knots?
VDO really shouldn't have let that one off the drawing board. <img border="0" alt="[nono]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">John, VDO did think this through. You shouldn't be looking at the trip meter when you're doing a 'moderate rate of knots'! <img border="0" alt="[nono]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" />
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<strong>I've never seen anyone mention this, but don't you find it really irritating that the bottom of the speedo needle obscures the trip meter when you're doing a moderate rate of knots?
VDO really shouldn't have let that one off the drawing board. <img border="0" alt="[nono]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">John, VDO did think this through. You shouldn't be looking at the trip meter when you're doing a 'moderate rate of knots'! <img border="0" alt="[nono]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" />
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Maybe it was designed for the US market, where the cars wouldn't reach such a rate of knots...
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