VN Speedometer

[snoogy_beef]

Hi, i have a small problem, i was travelling on the highway today and noticed my Speedometer was not going any higher then 80km/h

any ideas what the problem could be?

Thanks in advance for your help

[nathans1987]

it might be broken. is it a new problem.

[snoogy_beef]

hey, well it just happened today. It seems to be workign okay now, i just had to give it a tap:P i think the cogs or something musnt have been flush or something, but its fine now.....will post if it f***'s up again, and cant fix it

[nathans1987]

no cogs in the speedo just in the odo fars as i know may be wrong tho. a speedo is just a big volt meter(or ammeter)

[Aurc_2]

Gday mate
i got the same problem last week and its happening every few days
but if you tap it it goes away

[CALAISIX]

Hi Guys... I have a VN Calais 89 and have a similar problem. My speedo needle gets stuck down at 0 quite regularly. Sometimes when i hit 60km/h it flies up and works fine again. Seems that once i stop and needle returns to 0 it sticks again. I have to tap down on the top of the dash just above the speedo to get it moving. Seems to be around 10km/h out also. I set my "over speed limiter" to 70km/h and the needle shows around 80ish or just over before the warning light flashes for 70km/h. I'm assuming the light is showing the correct speed coz i use it all the time and haven't had and speeding tickets since purchasing the car and use the "OSL" regularly.

How easy is this to fix??? Is it costly?? i don't really have any knowledge on repairing these matters.

any suggestions would be appreciated.
not a huge issue...sometimes it's better not knowing how fast your doing.lol

[hakhawk]

could be the typical dirty contacts in the back of the cluster, take it out, give them a clean, make sure nothings broken. see how it goes.

[CSL]

i tend to crank my system up and put the bass up ridiculisly loud for a minute or so when i start driving, really frees up cluster, other than that your palm is the next best thing

[hakhawk]

so thats why mine always works, the excessive bass always pumping

[CALAISIX]

MMMM sub bass. Good for many things!! I'll have to stick to smackin the dash till i either get some subs or have a chance to pull things apart and investigate. (don't really wanna start pulling things apart coz when i do, they seem to stay apart)

cheers for the advice!