300K is nothing for an Audi

[Tony Hoffman]

The VDO guage in my V8Q still ran when the car was parked at 328K. But, it
is of course a rarity. I've owned probably 30 European cars with analog VDO
odo's, most of them have not worked.

Tony

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Peter Elias <peter at pcelias.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure whether some of the comments about the 300K odometer are now
> related to the one shown on Wikipedia, or the one I e-mailed.
>
> In my case, it is not faked, in fact, I have 2 videos on YouTube that show
> the odometer on my 1990 Audi 100 turning from 299,999 miles to 300,000
> miles while driving, and another one that shows the odometer at 310,686
> miles (which happens to be 500,000 kilometers).   In all cases I get out
> after stopping the car to show people it's real, not photoshopped...
>
> The videos are at http://www.youtube.com/**pcelias60<http://www.youtube.com/pcelias60>(it should be the 2nd and 3rd videos on the current list).
>
> My Audi website is at http://audiphilately.webs.com/**myaudi.htm<http://audiphilately.webs.com/myaudi.htm>(the links to the YouTube videos are at that site as well).
>
> And for what it's worth, the car now has 324,300+ miles on it.   And yes,
> I've wondered as well why Audi would use a "comma" instead of the period on
> the trip odometer...
>
> Greetings from Texas!
> Peter
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