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Old Aug 3, 2005
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what's wrong with my speedometer?

Ok. For a few times already a funny thing happened with my speedo. I would be driving at 40 or 50 mph and out of nowhere the needle drops for a sec and pops back up. Anyone else have this problem? What could it possibly be? If it matters any it's an 04 VP.
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couple of things, check the connectors on top of the cluster, and another, if you put on a vafc some wires might have disconnected or while your driving they are getting disconnected and connected again, also the speed sensor on your tranny but im not sure about that
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probably is nothing

around 35k on my 2k1 my tach and spedometer (while I was driving) both jumped all the way to the right. I was on the freeway doing like 80 , just pulled over to the side, turned the car off(they went back to normal a split second after they did it) just to be safe and never had it happen again.
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I've seen my guages do this on my vp twice..... it was really weird but i haven't had any other problems with them at all
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do u have after maket reverse glo or something like that style of guages? cause they may be to close to the back of the needle
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haha mine did the same too but I had taken off the needles a bunch of times. I guess maybe its the magnet on the needle getting messed up from outside interference. I think its normal.
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I figured it was... I've never messed with my guages or anything either... so who knows
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Re: what's wrong with my speedometer?

I've had this happen to me on three separate occasions, all about a year or so apart. All three times I was traveling between 105km/h and 120km/h. Then suddenly, the needle drops 15 or 20 km/h and then flies right back to what it was. My car is all stock so I haven't toyed with anything. It's a 2001 Civic.

Anyone have any ideas why this could be happening?
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Re: what's wrong with my speedometer?

I've had the same thing happen to me occasionally but i really dont care, its not like it's frequent...
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