 914 trivia: What does the VDO stand for?, on the bottom of each gauge on dash |
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| fatlando |
 Apr 18 2005, 04:59 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 6-September 04 From: imperial beach, california Member No.: 2,700  |
I ponder that every time I'm at a stop light.
Verbotten. Deadly. Outside? Villianous dudley odometer? i'm bored! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/alfred.gif) |
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| VegasRacer |
Apr 18 2005, 05:02 PM
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ELVIRA Group: Benefactors Posts: 8,525 Joined: 27-March 03 From: Between Scylla and Charybdis Member No.: 481 Region Association: None 
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Vehicle Display Output
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| SLITS |
Apr 18 2005, 05:06 PM
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None |
Vehicle Display Output
or Träger-Bildschirmausgabe Damnit John (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mad.gif) |
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| Andy |
Apr 18 2005, 05:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 106 Joined: 25-September 03 From: Fort Collins, CO Member No.: 1,194 |
Having flashbacks of my high-school german teacher, responding with "Auf deutsch!" whenever english was uttered...
VDO (Vereinigte DEUTA (Duetsche Tachometerwerke GmbH) OTA (OTA Apparate GmbH)) was a manufacturer of information and cockpit systems, navigation, telematics, communication and audio systems and control and fuel systems. The company was founded by Adolf Schindling at the end of the 1920s in Frankfurt, Germany by joining DEUTA and OTA. The company made tachometers and instrument clusters for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. I'm not really that smart, wikipedia had it. |
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| fatlando |
Apr 18 2005, 05:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 6-September 04 From: imperial beach, california Member No.: 2,700 |
you guys think you're smart cuz you can read!!!!
thanx for the class brotha! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) fat lando |
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| SLITS |
Apr 18 2005, 05:24 PM
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None |
Well, we just figured you were to close to the Canadians to really understand good english or german.
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| SirAndy |
Apr 18 2005, 05:56 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,688 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
well, that's the story for you history challanged amuricans ... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) what it actually means is: "Vereinigte Deuta OTA" VDO was founded in 1929 when the two companies "OTA Apparate GmbH" and the automotive devision of "Deuta" (Deutsche Tachometerwerke GmbH) (both in Berlin) merged into "Vereinigte Deuta OTA", which simply means "Merged Deuta and OTA" ... there you have it! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif) Andy |
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| SirAndy |
Apr 18 2005, 06:11 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,688 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
oh, and it's pronounced something like: ffouh de oo
ff as in f**k ou as in mouse h is sort of silent, just a hint of it at the end de as in demo oo as in otto |
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| VegasRacer |
Apr 18 2005, 06:21 PM
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ELVIRA Group: Benefactors Posts: 8,525 Joined: 27-March 03 From: Between Scylla and Charybdis Member No.: 481 Region Association: None
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It doesn't matter to me if I was correct or not.
The point is that I answered first. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif) |
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| seanery |
Apr 18 2005, 06:24 PM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
I thought it was Very Dim Output (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)
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| Dave_Darling |
Apr 18 2005, 07:45 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California 
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| TGM |
Apr 18 2005, 09:25 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Eldersburg, MD Member No.: 1,071 |
Thanks for the history lesson. I do business with what is now SVDO (Siemens VDO) and never knew what the letters stood for.
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