Trip gear broke today

[KIRIEIW]

My e30 trip meter failed today. Everything works still including adding miles, just the trip broke. I checked it and the gears seemed fine... Any suggestions on why this might have failed? I'm considering just buying a working one (hopefully) from the junk yard and re rolling it to my exact mileage. It still spins about halfway from 9 to the 0 mark again (white portion)... Then goes back to the 9 again. If I reset it it's about every 30 miles gets marked at 9, and after 9 it stops adding. Thanks for the help guys

Also hears a video of what I'm describing, don't mind the music or wind noise. You can see it go from 59 to 60 (ending digits) so millage is still counting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ntdBwz_Aw&feature=c4-overview&list=UUsYwBqFJK1tLzPrxotEN79Q

[e30lov]

My trip gear broke, and shortly afterwords my odometer gear failed as well. I would suggest buying the appropriate gear kit and replacing all the gears now.

[einhander]

I think Garagistic sells what you need. Do it right, don't ghettorig a new one.

[garagistic]

Here is how to tell which odometer gear set you need:

http://garagistic.com/index.php?page=how-to-tell-if-your-e30-has-a-vdo-or-motometer-gauge-cluster

Here is the link on where to get them:

http://store.garagistic.com/ocart/odometer-gears/e30-odometer-repair

[quikveedb2]

Gargistic ftw, installed my odo gear kit over a year ago & it's still working flawlessly!

[Thizzelle]

Gargistic ftw, installed my odo gear kit over a year ago & it's still working flawlessly!

I hope it is, the gears that fail are 20 years old

[dmoney(AB)]

Same thing happened to mine

Installed the garagistic gears and it's alive again.

[KIRIEIW]

Cool thanks guys, I did a bunch of searching and nothing came up with only the trip breaking. I guess I'll order new gears and hope for the best