VN speedo stopped working.

[VN_SS]

HI all. The speedo on my V8 VN stopped working today. The trip meter and odometer still work just not the speedo. I can get a instrument cluster out of a V6 VN but are they the same or were the V8 and V6 clusters different?? While I have you attention what would be wrong with my speedo and is it repairable.

[Pub247]

You can swap the speedo's over from the clusters and itll work but it might not be whats wrong with. Could also be the speed sensor

[VN_SS]

But if the speed sensor was stuffed wouldn't the odometer and trip meter stop working as well ????

[arrow224]

Perhaps you have the 'sticky guages' problem. Check out the sticky for more info.

[STEALTHY™]

Being his odometer aswell you'd think its the whole cluster.

From reading other peoples posts on here, V8 and V6 aren't interchangeable, so your best getting a V8 one.

[h0Ld3n`VN]

where is the speed sensor located?? is the thing under the car near the gearbox?

[STEALTHY™]

Yep. For a manual, it will be on the drivers side. Not sure where the auto on is, but i think its the opposite side.

[h0Ld3n`VN]

is that why my odometre isnt working to?? the speed sensors dodgey?? what do i need to replace

[STEALTHY™]

I'm getting confused with who i'm answering now lol

When my speedo sensor ****ed up, my odometre stopped aswell as the speedo, but i still had the tacho.

Just grab one from a wreckers and wire it up to your car.

[h0Ld3n`VN]

same here, da rpm/fuel/temp works but the odo doesnt =[, so wat do i need to replace? the thing under the gear box?? the thing that u screw off and pull out?

[STEALTHY™]

That would be the first thing i'd replace. It could be something else (such as the connection to the dash itself) but i'm not sure how you'd go about checking that.

I know i had the trip computer on mine unplugged for a while so i had no speedo and no odometre

[h0Ld3n`VN]

i played around with it at one stage! it worked for like 4hours in da city. LoL... but wen i came back to da S.E subs i guess it **** itself :P
so its that circle thing.. woulda VR one work or does it hav to be VN-VP one?

[the_lynx_man]

i had the same problem with my speedo. i pulled the sensor off open it and found there was a round magnet that needed to be glued back in place. in nz its $380 for a new speed sensor from holden and wrecker said would not sell seprate from gear box

[h0Ld3n`VN]

why didnt u use super super glue to put it back :P.. narrr do i have to buy a sensor?
can it be loseee? or sumthing from going over a bump

[the_lynx_man]

i did use super glue. its been going good for 6 months

[h0Ld3n`VN]

soo my sensor is stuffed from the insdee,, m8s saying the connections are dirty that i have to clean them,, but i doubt it.. i wd40'ed them haha it made a little improvement when it was sticking butt since the odo is moving worse then an rpm its really annoying

[nathans1987]

i have a v6 level 3 cluster in mine just had to add a resistor into the tacho bit the rest is the same so just swap the speedos over.