Tino made my speedometer stop working. He also made me fall down.

Fucking Tino. Also, fucking gravity.

Has anyone ever had their speedometer stop working? (I'm wondering what this might cost.) I just ran an errand and had a "What's wrong with this picture" moment when looking at the dash. What was wrong was that, while I was not driving particularly fast, I was also not driving 0 miles per hour.

Ginger, it probably depends on the model. We had an old Ford Escort where the gas gauge stopped working, and replacing it would have meant ripping out the entire dashboard. But it was an early 90s economy car, so.

Mum's station wagons speedometer stops working every now and then and same as Amy, the work involved caused Mum to live with it.

I had the speedometer fail on my first Accord, I think. I don't remember how much it cost, though I'm fairly sure it wasn't a fortune. But it's probably also not real cheap.

my mother (Harvard degree) cut in with, "there are no schools 'like' Harvard!"

That reminds me of the T-shirts for sale at McGill with the Harvard logos and the slogan "McGill of the south."

My mother went to Harvard for grad school, and half the reason she went there was because it's local, so she definitely doesn't have the reverence that some do....

I pled to having a non-working speedometer once, but that was just to avoid the moving violation ding on a speedibng ticket. Never known it to actually happen though.

One of my college roommates had a Volvo with a non-working speedometer, but he never fixed it.

That was a car you could start with a screwdriver, though. Not, possibly, the best reference.

My non-working speedometer actually got me out of a ticket, because I got pulled over after it was fixed and still had the receipt in my car. I said "Officer, it must be broken again."

My Volvo's speedometer broke but we didn't fix it because it also caused the mileage to stop and that helped resale value.