) of your XM collection, or perhaps searching for those elusive headlight washer covers? This is the place to do it.Anyone got one? Mine's snapped just behind the speedo dial. GSF and Citroen don't do they any more...
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S1 Speedo Cable
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Dieselman
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Re: S1 Speedo Cable
Try plastic welding it back together using a soldering iron and a tye-wrap as filler.
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Re: S1 Speedo Cable
Thanks Dieselman - Hadn't thought of that. Can you explain the tye wrap?
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Re: S1 Speedo Cable
Tye-wrap = cable tie. They are made of nylon, which is the same as the speedo cable connector, so it makes an ideal plastic filler to add into the welded joint.
Epoxy glue isn't very good on nylon, but another method would be to cut a groove round each section then use wire as reinforcement between the two halves, held in place by a tourniquet of wire in the grooves, then epoxy glued.
Epoxy glue isn't very good on nylon, but another method would be to cut a groove round each section then use wire as reinforcement between the two halves, held in place by a tourniquet of wire in the grooves, then epoxy glued.
91 3.0 sei M. 4852 EXY Black
92 2.1 sed M. 5740 ECZ Sable Phenicien
92 3.0 V6-24. 5713 EXY Black
92 2.1 sd M. 5685 ENT Blue Sideral
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90 2.1sd M. 5049 EJV Mandarin
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94 2.1sd A. 6218 ERT Triton
91 2.0si M. 5187 EWT White
92 2.1 sed M. 5740 ECZ Sable Phenicien
92 3.0 V6-24. 5713 EXY Black
92 2.1 sd M. 5685 ENT Blue Sideral
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90 2.1sd M. 5049 EJV Mandarin
92 2.1sd A. 5698 EJV Mandarin
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Re: S1 Speedo Cable
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it also snaps there - directly after the connector to the speedo!
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it also snaps there - directly after the connector to the speedo!
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Re: S1 Speedo Cable
I know. That's why I gave the advice to weld it back together.... 
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92 2.1 sed M. 5740 ECZ Sable Phenicien
92 3.0 V6-24. 5713 EXY Black
92 2.1 sd M. 5685 ENT Blue Sideral
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90 2.1sd M. 5049 EJV Mandarin
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94 2.1sd A. 6218 ERT Triton
91 2.0si M. 5187 EWT White
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92 3.0 V6-24. 5713 EXY Black
92 2.1 sd M. 5685 ENT Blue Sideral
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Re: S1 Speedo Cable
oh yes, I see now, said the blind man!Dieselman wrote:I know. That's why I gave the advice to weld it back together....
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Re: S1 Speedo Cable
Thanks - I see now. I think. I'll have a look tomorrow morning but I think it's broken where it goes into the metal box at the back of the actual dial. I didn';t have time to look carefully but at the join there was a thin twisted shard (almost) of plastic coming out of the back of the metal box - like the thin shard protruding from the plastic sleeve of the cable. Does that make sense? what happens if I unbolt the metal box at the back of the speedo dial? Will springs spring out?