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Hey,
When I am driving often my speedo starts bouncing up and down by about 10 kph, while I am keeping a constant speed. Does anyone know a fix for this?
When I am driving often my speedo starts bouncing up and down by about 10 kph, while I am keeping a constant speed. Does anyone know a fix for this?
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Start carrying a spare ignitor and a 90 degree allen head to replace the trailing ignitor when it goes....you'll feel a loss of power and the tach will go completely dead when the ignitor finally dies...
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Originally posted by mar3
Start carrying a spare ignitor and a 90 degree allen head to replace the trailing ignitor when it goes....you'll feel a loss of power and the tach will go completely dead when the ignitor finally dies...
Start carrying a spare ignitor and a 90 degree allen head to replace the trailing ignitor when it goes....you'll feel a loss of power and the tach will go completely dead when the ignitor finally dies...
Not sure if you can fix it. Mine started doing that as well so I just replaced it.
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Re: bouncing speedo
Originally posted by browney
Hey,
When I am driving often my speedo starts bouncing up and down by about 10 kph, while I am keeping a constant speed. Does anyone know a fix for this?
Hey,
When I am driving often my speedo starts bouncing up and down by about 10 kph, while I am keeping a constant speed. Does anyone know a fix for this?
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Originally posted by mar3
Start carrying a spare ignitor and a 90 degree allen head to replace the trailing ignitor when it goes....you'll feel a loss of power and the tach will go completely dead when the ignitor finally dies...
Start carrying a spare ignitor and a 90 degree allen head to replace the trailing ignitor when it goes....you'll feel a loss of power and the tach will go completely dead when the ignitor finally dies...
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Originally posted by mar3
Start carrying a spare ignitor and a 90 degree allen head to replace the trailing ignitor when it goes....you'll feel a loss of power and the tach will go completely dead when the ignitor finally dies...
Start carrying a spare ignitor and a 90 degree allen head to replace the trailing ignitor when it goes....you'll feel a loss of power and the tach will go completely dead when the ignitor finally dies...
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I have the same problem -it's the cable coming loose out of the back of the guage. You *can* reach up there and tighten it up but it takes some doing and knowledge of what the thing looks like.
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Originally posted by REVHED
Since when does the speedo run off the ignitor?
Not sure if you can fix it. Mine started doing that as well so I just replaced it.
Since when does the speedo run off the ignitor?
Not sure if you can fix it. Mine started doing that as well so I just replaced it.
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so...what's it look like?
I have no radio, just a space for it, and a bunch of cut wires. So, I pulled out the loose wires to see how many there are, etc.
In doing so, I managed to mess up my clock. Now it's dim unless the headlights are on, and always resets to 1 o'clock when the car is turned off.
Today I noticed my speedometer doing exactly this- it's bouncing, fluctuating as it rises and falls. I was afraid something mechanically might be going bad. Being that the tach already doesn't work, it's not helping that my speedometer might stop too.
EDIT: Oh crap sorry. But my car IS doing this...not like it's a new problem I'm sure (:
I have no radio, just a space for it, and a bunch of cut wires. So, I pulled out the loose wires to see how many there are, etc.
In doing so, I managed to mess up my clock. Now it's dim unless the headlights are on, and always resets to 1 o'clock when the car is turned off.
Today I noticed my speedometer doing exactly this- it's bouncing, fluctuating as it rises and falls. I was afraid something mechanically might be going bad. Being that the tach already doesn't work, it's not helping that my speedometer might stop too.
EDIT: Oh crap sorry. But my car IS doing this...not like it's a new problem I'm sure (:
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please man when i had my Honda, the speedo didn't work for the first year I owned it lol. Just drive with traffic. the slower traffic that is, just to be safe.
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