Speedometer Cable

Here is my Beetle the week we bought it. It's a little rough around the edges. Nothing on the dashboard worked. No speedometer or odometer. No dashboard lights. There was a radio, which we removed immediately due to poor wiring.

Our first task was to replace the speedometer cable. It is supposed to be one of the easist items to fix on the car. There was no speedometer cable at all, so it took several hours to find the correct path. We could not get the cable to go through the opening in the wheel, so we stripped some of the outer protective covering off of the end of the cable. Later, we discovered that was not the thing to do. The speedometer and odometer currently work, but it is only a matter of time before it catches and breaks again. We'll repace it correctly when that happens.