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Speedometer swap 200 1982

posted by  spethick on  Sun May 1 04:48 CST 2005
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Hi, my wife's 1982 245 speedo needle broke and the local Volvo shop replaced the old speedo (a 85 mph max (r0,960)) with a 120 max speedo (r0,980) and have assured me they are interchangeable. Now I think the 245 isn't reading accurate mph, is it my imagination? Or are these speedos not really interchangeable?








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Speedometer swap 200 1982

posted by  neptune242 on  Mon May 2 15:21 CST 2005
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The 85mph and the 120mph versions are completely interchangable, but the issue you are having is that the ratio must be the same. They should have replaced the 85mph r0,960 with any good r0,960 ratio. Unless your car was supposed to come with a r0,980 and the r0,960 was swapped in accidentally sometime in the past. In which case you have a very impressive shop.
My M46 Turbo car has a r0,980 speedo. I've replaced three speedos in the past five years, but all of them were r0,980 ratios.
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