The message to which you are about to reply is shown first. GO TO REPLY FORM



 VIEW    REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE    PRINT   SAVE 

'84 240 GL Speedometer is being moody 200

posted by  wunderGoltz on  Mon Jan 4 16:42 CST 2021
Author: [PROFILE] [EVERY POST] [THREADS] [BEST POSTS] RSS Feed     [IGNORE ALL POSTS] [RELATED]

Hey lads,

At first, I thought my speedometer cable broke, as I looked down while driving one day and saw that the speedo had failed. But to the best of my understanding, the speedo cable runs both the speedo and odometer gauges... and the odometer is working fine. The speedo now won't work for roughly half the time. Some days it works, other days it doesn't. Sometimes the needle is stable, other times it jumps everywhere, others only at 20-30mph. I can't seem to find resources that mention both needle failure and the odometer continuing to work.

Is this still a cable issue, or is the nylon gear in the gauge cluster starting to slip/go? I'm not precisely going to go fast enough to get in trouble with the law, and I can see my speed on my phone, but I'd really like to get this sorted as it becomes my daily driver.

And if I do wind up getting a new (to me) gauge cluster... is there a way to roll the odometer forwards/backwards to match my current reading?

Crossposted to the IPD forums, but Brickboard appears to have a more active community ;)

Cheers






USERNAME
Use "claim to be" below if you don't want to log in.
PASSWORD
I don't have an account. Sign me up.
CLAIM TO BE
Use only if you don't want to login (post anonymously).
ENTER CAPTCHA CODE
This is required for posting anonymously.
OPTIONS notify by email
Available only to user accounts.
SUBJECT
MODEL/YEAR
MESSAGE

DICTIONARY
LABEL(S) +
IMAGE URL *
[IMAGE LIBRARY (UPLOAD/SELECT)]

* = Field is optional.

+ = Enter space delimited labels for this post. An example entry: 240 muffler


©Jarrod Stenberg 1997-2022. All material except where indicated.


All participants agree to these terms.

Brickboard.com is not affiliated with nor sponsored by AB Volvo, Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo Cars of North America, Inc. or Ford Motor Company. Brickboard.com is a Volvo owner/enthusiast site, similar to a club, and does not intend to pose as an official Volvo site. The official Volvo site can be found here.