S1 Veglia - how to clock it?

[Paul Coleman]

Does anybody know how to alter the mileage on the S1 green Veglia dials? Before you get out of your pram and call me Arthur Daley, the car I recently bought has had the dials refurbished (although what that means exactly I don't know) and whoever did it reset the mileage counter to zero when it was previously showing 47,000. So I want to put it back to its correct mileage but don't want to break it in the process.

My mate's Dad was a second hand car dealer back in the 70s and he went to clock a car he'd just bought and when he took the dials out there was a sticker on the back of the speedo that said "Oh no, not again!" hahaha karma!

[jtmco]

Paul,

I’m sure this is not worthwhile but if you hook up the speedo cable to the speedo, you could run it with a drill. 
 

If my quick calculations are correct, running a drill at 800 RPMs for 24 hours per day, it would take around a month to reach 47,000 miles. 
 

Hopefully there is a cleaner way. 
 

Good luck,

Jim

 

[Paul Coleman]

18 hours ago, jtmco said:

it would take around a month to reach 47,000 miles. 

I'm hoping to find an easier way. If somebody has reset them then it should be possible to change them again, I just don't want to break it.

[Alistair Enser]

Hi Paul

i know they are different but I used smiths gauges who do a recon and repair service on all sorts of stuff for my S2 and they also replaced an incorrect Speedo and reset it to match the mileage.

They were slow but the quality was excellent, and prices reasonable  maybe they can help with Veglia

https://thegaugeshop.com/