Most likely your problem is the speedo gear inside transmission differential, it shows sign off slippage or it's cracked and usually shows same symptom as you described. Need speed gear and securing ring around $ 60.00, trans diff. cover remove, right axle remove, out put flange and bearing remove, speed gear and securing ring remove, required special tool for ring gear and securing ring installation, bearing puller as well, labor time up to 4.00 hrs. Good luck.

Bresha

Ok, I used Vag-com to set the distance impuse number (DIN or K number) from a 1 to the recommneded 2 setting and the speedo works as it should ( showing only 2-3 miles faster then the travel speed) and the trip odometer is spot on. (note I tried the other setting of 4 (2 and 4 are the only recommended I found, (1,2,3 and 4 are the only numbers it will take)) and the speedo was spot on, but trip odo was .025 per mile off)

So that fixes that, thank goodness was not the internal speed sensor, of course I spent 350 bucks for the vag-com software, cable and bently dvd, but figure was still cheaper then breaking into the tranny, and will get more use from them. In fact I had to replace the radio, the one in it was beat up bad and very brittle at placed on the face plate, looks like someone punched it at some point.... but anyway got newer monsoon model off e-bay for 50 bucks with code and all I need to do was use Vag-com to tell it that there was a cd changer attached, so that 2 uses.

Now for the bad part, the odometer jumped from 83,000 miles to 102,000 miles when I set the DIN to 2 (@ 4 it jumped to 98,000, back to 1 was 83,000 again) looking at the car fax, the mileage history looks good, no wierd jumps and wsa @ 82,312 when I bought and last reported was 82,305 again with a normal looking reporting history, nothing 20,000 miles jumped out from it for sure.

Question is whats the real odometer reading, the DIN should be a 2 and was set to a 1 @ some point, obviously do to the speedo and Odo errors, that are fixed when now set correctly, even if it left the factory at 1 and was .2 miles off per mile, well thats about 20,000 miles ?????? hmmmmm I see why the change jumped it 20,000 it took the total there and adjusted it for the correct sensor reading... so

A: has it alwasys been off I find it hard to believe a 2000 model car was driving around 10 miles to fast and never got tickets and was check for calibration though.

B: the Speedo cluster got changed out and the ECM set to 1 and the Odometer was replaced.

C: the car actually has 102,000 miles on it and someone set it to 1 to rollback the odometer for selling purposes....

D: ?????????

I have a 24 month 24,000 mile warrenty on the car that just started, so obviusly I do not want to leave it @ 102,000 miles but would like to have it reporting correctly by leaving the DIN set to 2, not 1. Should I contact the warrenty company and explain or, just change it to a 1 when it needs service till the warrenty runs out. Hoping will never need the warrenty... maily powertrain.

Living with it for now.... I think my cluster is bad as none of the chimes work and still do not work with VAG-COM instrument test. So I'm on the hunt for a cheap replacment cluster with less then 82,000 miles that I can install and bump it up (you can go up with vag-com on the odometer, but not down, for good reason) and then run it at setting 2 with the mileage I bought it out which matches carfax reports, I do not think it is a 20,000 mile differance, that would mean it came from the factory wrong, I'm betting someone replaced the cluster and did not set the right impuse Number but set the odometer, and it was off from that point. what that point was, its unknown.

Anyone have a used instrument cluster for a 2000 NB 2.0L manual with less then 82K miles on impuse setting 2, with working chimes?