Highmile

My car, with all of it's 424,000 miles, has a sticky speedometer. It sticks on Zero and then sometimes it will flip over and stick at 100mph. I have to smack the dash with my fist and it will usually flip to the current speed. I have the most luck doing this with the fewest smacks of the dash when I'm going about 40mph. (sounds stupid but there you go). I know it just about can't be the speed sensor on the trans because of what I just described (so please don't tell me that I have a speedsensor problem).

Question... Is there anyway to lube the needle shaft or anything like that, or what do I do?

hoyoung02

holy shit....424,000 miles? omfg...cot damn...wtf? that much milage? geesus fucing christ.

ok, well, you gotta tell us what car you have..it'll be easier.
take the gause cluster out, this is where we need to know wtf you have so we can tell you how to take that off unless you already know how, and clean the inside. and lub the little motor behind the needle. get this from your local hobby store for RC cars which runs on electric motor, buy that little lube and use it on the gauge cluster.

good luck.

Highmile

My car is a 92 Civic VX. Have had it since it had 64k (10years now). I have taken the cluster off and know how to do that. I had a really hard time pulling the needle off the speedo and gave up 'cause I didn't want to break it. I assume it will come off becasue that is how people would change the gauge background to white or whatever. Do I just give it hell and pull harder, or is there a trick?

hoyoung02

the needle on those don't come off. and are not suposed to.
some models do, and some don't come off.
no wonder why it's all fucked.

Highmile

Lets see... was I trying to fix it before it was broken or after?

hoyoung02

wow, you sound like a fucking tool sack.

i already gave you an answer to your problem.

and no, no one takes their needles off to put on the indiglow faces you dumb fuck. you make me pissed from your low knoledge and not fucking reading things. so, do that i sugested, or go get a new fucking speedometer you fuck.

yeah i am a fucking dick, and you deserved this one.

any fucking ways,

good luck.

Highmile

Thanks for the worthless advice and all of your invaluable "knoledge". Stay over in South Korea (or in the accord four door automatic forum). You guys can talk about your sluggish family wagons.

Swisher

hoyoung needs to calm down

hoyoung02

will do

szuberi

So if you dont touch the needles, how do you take the existing gauge face out and how do you put the new one in????????? I dont know this so i am just asking.