Thats a good and valid point Mine is in the same position, will cut in the morning and report back after i have driven to work in it. Hopefully at 40 rather than a bouncing 40
Cut the plastic this morning. Its much better. Under 30 it still bounces a bit but i can live with it. At 40 before cut needle was nuts, now apart from a wobble of a few mm its pretty good. Will slap some grease into the end and see if that does anything
crazyhorse wrote:Cut the plastic this morning. Its much better. Under 30 it still bounces a bit but i can live with it. At 40 before cut needle was nuts, now apart from a wobble of a few mm its pretty good. Will slap some grease into the end and see if that does anything
excellent thanks for contributing to the experiment
did you just cut it in half or remove it from the connector?
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Mine does the same. Use the Satnav. Have to remember that the speed reading freezes entering a tunnel so it's easy to forget and unwittingly go over the limit. I was going to buy a new cable. Think I'll leave it now.
Put some grease in the connector at speedo end this morning, better, but still bounces under 30, over 30 it stops bouncing and becomes pretty steady. Will live with that.
my 400 mile journy home was better at speed after removing the sleeve but still bounced badly when slow.
Taken the cable out today and put a battery drill on the wheel end and with a nice gentle curve you can see the rotation is not constant velocity so deffo the cable.
cut down a fizzy pop bottle and drilled a hole in lid now oiling cable lets see what happens.
oil have come throught other end, I tried it again same inconsistant velocity
I can only come to one conclusion the GEMO cables are crap!
So out with the origional VAG cable and oil that in the same way, I'll then put it back, going to try and fix the broken VAG cable that came out of the tin top too sick of GEMO cable bounce
Do you fancy choping the Gemo cable in half and seeing which half is the problem..... repeat a couple of times and you might identify exactly why they are failing
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