Trip Meter Resets on its own! VX2

[danielnitschke]

Hello,

Bloody frustrating. The trip meter in my VX Acclaim 2002 resets on its own whenever I turn the car on. Won't do it every time, but 8/10 times its back at 0.00km.

Annoying when I'm trying to watch fuel consumption any ideas? Battery terminals are fine, I had to take the dash out to install a head unit, and I had to unplug the reset/mode terminal, but it's all plugged back in correctly and all those buttons work fine, and it was doing this before I did that.

I've got the single window cluster.

Any help would be appreciated

Also just some quick fire questions, going on a 600km trip soon, anything out of the ordinary I should consider checking/replacing before I go? Oil has just been done. Reckon it would be worth replacing the fuel filter? Is it hard to do?

 

[mpower]

One of mine does it randomly, be nice to know why.

sometimes once a week - sometimes once every 6 months.

 

[danielnitschke]

Bump - anyone have an answer to this?

 

[VTS5]

Start with checking the plug /wires behind the mode switch also replace the "ENG. CONT/BCM" Fuse with new one(regardless).If no change,replace the mode switch it self..Up down buttons could be shorting.

 

[ozNick]

Another possible cause: if the cluster looses constant power it will reset the trip meter so check connections etc.

 

[kyled2012]

Might also sound dumb but check your battery. When mine was almost dead it would reset my head unit and cluster every time I started the engine haha

 

[mpower]

my cluster has been out a couple of times for bulbs changes so I wouldn't doubt that's the issue - also the mode switch.