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Thread: My speedometer is crazy

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    Default My speedometer is crazy

    Yestarday when pulling away from a light in heavy traffic, twice the speedometer just shoots up to 40-80 mph. Then it goes back to normal once I pick up some speed (only occurs when I am starting from dead stop). It doesn't happen each time, occured only twice yestarday.

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    Default lokks like the speed sensor is the problem

    Check the wires first, if you cannot see anything wrong, remove the speed sensor and check that one.
    Sometimes just cleaning helps.

    Details here

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    or, could u be driving on snow and spinning your tires?
    hehehehe =]

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    No, that kind of speedometer error usually occurs only on empty parking lots with a heavy foot-no snow here. =]
    Just glad to find out that this is not caused by my instrument cluster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shogun
    Check the wires first, if you cannot see anything wrong, remove the speed sensor and check that one.
    Sometimes just cleaning helps.

    Details here

    If the sensor is bad it will also effect the cruise control operation.If cruise works OK might want to look into the speedo itself.

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