D1 - Odomemter running fast?

[Injuhneer]

Last night I was driving home on the highway. I noticed the odometer in my '97 D1 was moving at good clip. Checked the speedo via GPS and it was within 2 mph. Timed the odo 1/10ths at 4 seconds each. We were driving at 65mph so it is turning very fast.

So this is a '97 D1 USA/NA model. I wondered if it was possible to have a dual mode mechanical instrument since it is driven by electrical pulses. In this case the odometer (total distance recorder in LR parlance) and speedo are running at two different rates.

I have searched and found info on the DII mode change but am wondering if my speedo has just lost its marbles. :drool:

 

[1920SF]

Speedo and odo should both be driven by VSS input, if mine was any indication when it died. Doesn't mean one component if reading that input different of course.

 

[robertf]

did you mess with the reset button? ive had one stick and it did weird stuff

 

[Devildog01]

Maybe you went through a wormhole?

 

[discostew]

I've been looking at the schematic for the circuit your asking about . I mentioned in the past that Rovers schematics leave a little to be desired. I see vehicle speed coming into the instrument cluster at terminal 2 and into the solid state symbol and back out of the cluster on term 4 to give a vss input to the ecm , cruise module and service reminder . The circuit description says that the vss signal is in the form of voltage pulses that switch between battery voltage and 0 volts 6 times per wheel revolution . The speed signal is filtered by a speed signal buffer inside the speedometer . So you know a bit more than me about the buffering and what have you . But my seat of the pants feeling is that your instrument cluster has lost it's marbles. Or you went thru a worm hole .

 

[ubuntu]

Or the XYZ switch has morphed into an Enigma machine and is encrypting the VSS

 

[BackInA88]

Is odometer displaying Km?

 

[stu454]

Is odometer displaying Km?

In a D1? That should be the old rolling style.

 

[discostew]

Or the XYZ switch has morphed into an Enigma machine and is encrypting the VSS

The only way that could happen was if it went thru a worm hole .

 

[ubuntu]

The only way that could happen was if it went thru a worm hole .

Read in a Morgan Freeman voice

 

[discostew]

Read in a Morgan Freeman voice

Ya he smokes a lot of weed too

 

[Injuhneer]

Anyone retrofitted D2 console to D1? They seem to be plentiful and cheap to buy.

 

[Injuhneer]

Or the XYZ switch has morphed into an Enigma machine and is encrypting the VSS

I thought it may be a failed flux capacitor or a jammed time rotor.