odometer problem

[budd]

I have problem with odometer on my '95 per serp Griff 500, basicallt it's resetting it's self to 0 every time the ingition is turned off, do they have some kind of internal battery like a PC mother board ? or is it some other problem?

[Ant.]

budd said:

I have problem with odometer on my '95 per serp Griff 500, basicallt it's resetting it's self to 0 every time the ingition is turned off, do they have some kind of internal battery like a PC mother board ? or is it some other problem?

Yes they do have an memory battery.

[RAS]

My 96 Griff has an old fashioned analogue odometer.

So did TVR use a mix of analogue and digital?

[V8 GRF]

I'd suggest that's been replaced at some time with a later speedometer from a Chimaera, I've never seen a Griffith with one of those mixed dials.

[Bluebottle]

V8 GRF said:

I'd suggest that's been replaced at some time with a later speedometer from a Chimaera, I've never seen a Griffith with one of those mixed dials.

mine has (original fitment i believe and also a 1995 car) oh...and my battery died two yours ago as well. Getting the bezel off without damaging it was a bit of a git.

[V8 GRF]

Bluebottle said:

V8 GRF said:

I'd suggest that's been replaced at some time with a later speedometer from a Chimaera, I've never seen a Griffith with one of those mixed dials.

mine has (original fitment i believe and also a 1995 car) oh...and my battery died two yours ago as well. Getting the bezel off without damaging it was a bit of a git.

Oh well live and learn, I've only ever seen them on Chims,I guess they'd run out of Griffith dials that year

Mine's a '98 build year and it's all analogue.

[fastandcurious]

I have one of these speedos in my 94 Griff and the same happened to mine. The battery died and the oddometer zeroed itself. I contacted ETB Instruments at www.etbinstruments.com who were very helpful and quickly rectified the problem. I sent the speedo to them and they installed new batteries and re-set the mileage to what it was before and all for a reasonable cost.

[JazzyO]

fastandcurious said:

and re-set the mileage to what it was before

Sure, we believe you.

[900T-R]

I was rather proud of the 126,700 miles the odo showed before it got amnesia. Be sure that it will be returned to 126,700 + the actual mileage covered since when it comes out...

[fastandcurious]

JazzyO said:

Sure, we believe you.

my mileage was so low I didn't have the cheek to ask them to make it any lower.

[Bluebottle]

fastandcurious said:

y mileage was so low I didn't have the cheek to ask them to make it any lower.

i replaced the battery when i had a new engine fitted, so kept a log of the mileage for the car records but kept the odometer at zero for the new engine (105K now in total)

[ruaricoles]

I actually went for higher miles on the odo when the battery needed to be replaced in mine (1994 car); Sportmotive got it sorted for me while doing some paintwork last year but I'd been driving it around for a while with it resetting every day.

The car is on it's 3rd (!) speedo though, so I wanted the odo to show the car's actual mileage rather than mileage on the 3rd speedo. The Mot history now looks rather odd; from about 30k one year to 0 the next to 70k the next.