GeorgeC

Before I start tearing stuff apart, anyone ever encountered a non working
odometer in a 94 vintage cougar? Speddo works fine, odometer and trip
odometer not working. Seems to hae stopped right after I reset it.

Mechanically, easy to get open? Easy to get out of dash?

Any thoughts on it appreciated.

GeorgeC
george at dyb dot com

tom

there is nothing to fix on that unit, it is electrically controlled by the
vehicles computer. the only way to fix it is to swap out the cluster for
another one. it is fairly simple to do, takes me about 1 hour, and I check
all the light bulbs while I have it apart.
"GeorgeC" <spamdump@dyb.com> wrote in message
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> Before I start tearing stuff apart, anyone ever encountered a non working
> odometer in a 94 vintage cougar? Speddo works fine, odometer and trip
> odometer not working. Seems to hae stopped right after I reset it.
>
> Mechanically, easy to get open? Easy to get out of dash?
>
> Any thoughts on it appreciated.
>
> GeorgeC
> george at dyb dot com
>
>

Rodan

"GeorgeC" wrote:

...... anyone ever encountered a non working odometer
in a 94 vintage cougar? Speedo works fine, odometer
and trip odometer not working. Mechanically, easy to
get open? Easy to get out of dash?
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there is nothing to fix on that unit, it is electrically
controlled by the vehicles computer. the only way to fix
it is to swap out the cluster for another one. it is fairly
simple to do, takes me about 1 hour, and I check all the
light bulbs while I have it apart.

tom wrote:
_____________________________________________

Sometimes these symptoms are caused by corroded
terminals in the connector to the instrument cluster.
Try disconnecting and reconnecting it several times.

Good luck.

Rodan.
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Bob

"Rodan" <Rodan@verizon.NOT> wrote in message
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> "GeorgeC" wrote:
>
> ..... anyone ever encountered a non working odometer
> in a 94 vintage cougar? Speedo works fine, odometer
> and trip odometer not working. Mechanically, easy to
> get open? Easy to get out of dash?
> _____________________________________________
>
> there is nothing to fix on that unit, it is electrically
> controlled by the vehicles computer. the only way to fix
> it is to swap out the cluster for another one. it is fairly
> simple to do, takes me about 1 hour, and I check all the
> light bulbs while I have it apart.
>
> tom wrote:
> _____________________________________________
>
> Sometimes these symptoms are caused by corroded
> terminals in the connector to the instrument cluster.
> Try disconnecting and reconnecting it several times.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Rodan.
> _____________________________________________
>

Tom is right, if the speedo works but the odometer doesn't you need a new
speedo head, which includes the odometer. No amount of disconnecting and
reconnecting will fix it
Bob