lex1220

So a few weeks ago I ventured out at midnight to go purchase some A&D ointment for my freshly inked arm and as I was leaving to go meet with some friends I found out my speedometer is sticking and then when it finally moves its extremely off! I'd safely say 20-30mph off. Well the kind officer who wrote me a ticket that night informed me of how off my speedo was left me a nice fat ticket. So my question is this. Is there any way to fix it? I'm not sure if cleaning the needle is the answer because of how slow and unaccurate it is when it does decide to move. Some days, very few it works properly. Anyone have any ideas? Do they sell the little motors or w.e that give it signal to move seperately or am I going to be stuck spending a pretty penny for a new cluster?

lex1220

Also, I am now running a GPS powered speedometer app on my phone in the mean time haha.

lex1220

No CEL either for speed sensors. Do not not if this helps

lex1220

Did some further reading, found out the fail points are the sensor coming off the transmission, the wiring, and then the cluster.

Photon440

iTrader: (3)

I thought I was going to see a picture of your ticket. With a large number for the speed.

lex1220

I have one of those on Facebook already. lol.

ThomasGS4

iTrader: (19)

You're supposed to bang the top of the cluster if it sticks.

lex1220

I did that and it's still off. It moves, slowly.

aznxenon

Aww, I never knew you can get speeding tickets when your speedometer was broken . How fast did you get written up for? lol

"Officer, I swear it says I was going 40! I thought other drivers were going 25 on the highway!"

suislide

thats a daily ritual of mine lol

BigBang

iTrader: (1)

Shouldn't you have been driving long enough to estimate how fast you were going? like im sure you can tell the difference between going 60mph aside from it saying 40 and 30mph. That's a pretty big difference if you say it's 20-30mph off.

FatBrian81

iTrader: (2)

Pull your cluster and take it to a local electronics repair shop and have the capacitors replaced on the back of the speedo and tach. Over time they die and it stop the needles from reading correctly.

GS4_Fiend

iTrader: (22)

You should rely on the RPM gauges instead.

suislide

Not in my SC. 60 DOES feel like 30 ; 80 feels like 60; 100 feels like 75 and so on. I guess it's the luxurious quality of the car. In all my 240s 60 felt like 60 probably because I could feel the feedback from the road lol

lex1220

What Suislide said, my SC feels so smooth when I drive it's hard to tell. I got hit for 60 in a 45 this time. Anyways Ill try that capacitor idea.