dinghy towing odometer

WHy is it Americans don't read the owners manual or instructions book? To say nothing of reading a map............:)

shoreco wrote:

Fifty4F100 wrote:
My 05 PT Cruiser records towed miles. I have to have the ignition on to unlock the steering wheel.

There should be a fuse you can remove to prevent this from happening....

I'll have to research that. I think I have an owners manual.

Fifty4F100 wrote:
My 05 PT Cruiser records towed miles. I have to have the ignition on to unlock the steering wheel.

There should be a fuse you can remove to prevent this from happening....

My 05 PT Cruiser records towed miles. I have to have the ignition on to unlock the steering wheel.

No on the Honda Fit.

Goldencrazy wrote:

CA Traveler wrote:
Ignition on for the CRV, no mileage recorded.

My 04 CRV has 55K towed miles and 55K driven miles.

Come on. You must have driven the toad a little.

I think he means a total of 110K miles, half towed/half driven.

My 1990 Jeep Wrangler records towed miles.
Ron

My Saab toad is old school and is mechanical. Yup, I run up the miles towing it. I hope it doesn't decrease the value of it, after all, it's work upwards of $2K. :-)

wa8yxm wrote:
There are 3 ways the odometer works depending on the car.

I have never seen, but did read, of a car where the speedometer was driven off a cable attached to the left front tire (not powered)... Popular Mechanics. back in the late 1960's A story series they published called Gus Wilson's Model Garage.. now as I said I have never seen this.

Most cars and trucks it is driven off the transmission output shaft. Older cars it's a cable drive, which means it's all gears and cables, and if the shaft is turning it's counting the miles.

modern cars it's an electronic linkage and if the ignition is off, it's not working.

I can remember a couple of my front wheel drive cars from the 80's being able to spin the tires in the snow, and watching the speedometer rev to the spinning. Don't know what would have happened when towing since the engine would have been off, but I bet the miles would have still racked up since everything was cable and mechanically driven.

wa8yxm wrote:
There are 3 ways the odometer works depending on the car.

I have never seen, but did read, of a car where the speedometer was driven off a cable attached to the left front tire (not powered)... Popular Mechanics. back in the late 1960's A story series they published called Gus Wilson's Model Garage.. now as I said I have never seen this.

Most cars and trucks it is driven off the transmission output shaft. Older cars it's a cable drive, which means it's all gears and cables, and if the shaft is turning it's counting the miles.

modern cars it's an electronic linkage and if the ignition is off, it's not working.

Rear engined Volkswagens and Corvairs, among others, had the mechanical speedometer/odometer cable driven from the left front wheel hub.