NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Nine years ago, Jeff Caplan was working on a 1980 five-series BMW and needed to fix the odometer. “Every speedometer shop I contacted said the same thing, ‘You have to send it in.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Nine years ago, Jeff Caplan was working on a 1980 five-series BMW and needed to fix the odometer. "Every speedometer shop I contacted said the same thing, 'You have to send it in.