[V8] Audi V8 speedometer

[Roger Woodbury]

Here is an update.  Just for chuckles and grins I asked my dealer if they
could access a new speedometer from Audi.  First of all the parts guy.who is
relatively young and new to the dealership.tried to tell me that it was for
an Audi 90.  "No," I corrected.  "It is a 1990, V8 Quattro."  

 

Long pause.

 

"Well," he said.  "It shows me that it is considered obsolete.  So I can't
get one. And only the entire cluster was available".

 

I knew the part about the cluster because I found that out when my first
Audi V8 dash lights failed due to a broken dimmer switch.  Then the cost of
a new cluster was $1150, exchange.  But today I was told the price of a
cluster IF it was available was over $1700.  

 

So the search continues. Force 5 has one for a hundred bucks.   I am still
hoping that I will find someone with a speedometer that has fewer than 80k
on it by itself.  

 

My wife is having shoulder surgery next week so neither of us is going much
of anyplace for a week or two, and my V8 will sit at the wrench's for a
while, while we get it fully sorted since I don't need the car right now at
all.  We will take time to find the right stuff and get it sorted once and
for all.

 

Any speedometers out there?

 

Roger