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A 1985 280SL Euro owner asks about a stopped odometer; a member supplies a damaged-gear example, while a later R129 digital-display question remains a separate case.

An owner’s fuse checks, immediate hydraulic-fluid loss and later hardtop correction, alongside a supplier’s cylinder-location diagram.

kbob999’s donor-panel replacement improved his faded displays only slightly. Later owners describe replacement panels and a separate film-repair experiment with mixed outcomes.

BS911 replaced the odometer gear in his 1995 993 after distance recording stopped while the speedometer still worked. His photographs follow the instrument disassembly and gear replacement.