here's a weird one

driving along eastern av yesterday, my digital gear indicator on the dash begins flashing and my temp needle suddenly drops to zero,back up again,and again down to zero? has this bit of voodoo happened to anyone here??

robotennis61 wrote:

driving along eastern av yesterday, my digital gear indicator on the dash begins flashing and my temp needle suddenly drops to zero,back up again,and again down to zero? has this bit of voodoo happened to anyone here??

Only those gauges were affected? May be a lose connector behind the cluster. I've had that happen on my cluster once, but instead my gear selector flashed and my speedometer suddenly rushed to 30 and back down. This was when it was -15 out so I just assumed it was because of the cold. It would probably be safe to assume that it probably is a lose connector.

If it only happened once I wouldn't worry about it. But if it keeps happening again, it's time to take the panel off and redo the connectors.

bummer. its about 60 deg now in vegas. it has happened before. but not today. when the car goes into paint then maybe ill tackle it. thanx!

robotennis61 wrote:

bummer. its about 60 deg now in vegas. it has happened before. but not today. when the car goes into paint then maybe ill tackle it. thanx!

No problem. Hopefully you'll find a loose connector and it's not a bad gauge cluster. Even if it doesn't feel or look lose take it off clean it and put it back together.

not a task i relish. but it will have to be done I'm sure.have to get in there to remove a few bulbs anyway on account I'm getting a abs delete kit soon. thanks for the advise my friend!

Funny, my gas gauge just did that yesterday....I was @ qt tank, shut off my car and ran inside a store, came out started it, it went to full?...and slowly dropped down....

mine did the same today when i was using my datastream scanner to hunt down a misfire. I could get mine working again by wiggling the OBD2 connector. It may be something related to that.