Dash cluster swapped?

[80's Kid]

Hi all,
I recently started taking my family heirloom stock '86 vl to a "classic car garage" for some issues I wanted fixed, among them the dash clock and temp gauge. After hassling them for 4 weeks I finally got her back with both these issues resolved. I was told that the cluster had been sent to be repaired (and charged around $250 for this) but. .I suspect they just chucked in a second hand cluster from a wreckers, as now the odo doesn't work (was working when I gave it to them), and now somehow reads 200 000km less than it did before??! Can't see why the instrument repair place would have wound back mine..Thoughts?

 

[rambunctious]

When changing/repairing a speedo/odo, it must be set to the original k's.
If you have proof of a reset of k's they could cop a substantial fine.
I would put your "classic car garage" in the "not too bright" department.
Contact transport or fair trading in your state for further advice.

 

[Lacksballs]

Go back & talk to them, there could be a a legitimate answer.

 

[Eat_the_poo_poo]

IMO it does sound like they have replaced it with another cluster. The instrumentation guys it apparently got sent away to would not wind back the km's. I would be calling the "classic car garage"

 

[VDO]

To rewind the temp gauge and repair the clock (2 x capacitors) shouldn't have cost any more than $80 - $100.

The problem usually usn't the instruments though. It's often the solder joints on the back of the socket on the PCB need to be resoldered.