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U13 Bluebird & Altima => maintenance issues => Topic started by: Budgie on May 19, 2009, 07:13PM
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Well today my U13 SSS's tacho stopped working all of a sudden, dropped to zero.
Then after a few more minutes (driving 100kmph on a highway) it started jumping around, going from 9,000rpm to 3,000rpm then to zero then back to some other random rpm, then back to 9,000 then back to zero... like it was getting an electronic shock!
Has this ever happened to someone else? I'm guessing yes, as the U13's seem to have instrument issues...
I'm thinking I will simply have to replace the tacho.
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Tell me you jizzed when you saw 9000rpm..
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I never had this problem but i do have an instrument cluster for a u13 lx if you do end up needing to replace it.
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Tell me you jizzed when you saw 9000rpm..
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn103/habib_86/noyphh.jpg)
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lol, fuckers :P
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lol, fuckers :P
Lol, sorry mate. I googled "Picture of Ryan otherwise known as Budgie" and that's the first result. The next result was a censored picture of what appears to be a midget and a man with the description "Ryan otherwise known as Noss"... ::)
On a serious note, any luck yet mate? That is random. Apart from the Tacho going crazy, anything else wrong with the entire cluster which may give cause to this?
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Nope, its all fine other than that. Its a series II cluster, so its light grey gauges and ABS light on the tacho :(
It does work perfectly for periods of time, doesn't work at all, jumps around... or a combination of all three!!
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And i thought my speedo randomly jumping to 100kmh then done to 0kmh and back to correct speed when i am accelerating from rest was wacked.
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It may not be the tacho itself. My tacho in my 180 did the same thing ages ago then stopped working, I eventually replaced the tacho with one from a car that was working, but it still doesn't in mine. If you have one of those aftermarket tachos you could hook it up and see if that works, then you will know if it is the tacho, or a short or something somewhere else.
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Are you sure you don't need to work on your throttle control? :P
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:P
I have a spare cluster from an Lx, which I'm going to try the tacho from soon to see if its that, or something else.
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Yeah mine has this issue with the tacho.
It has never worked in my ownership - sits @ zero, then moves to 2k....next thing its at red line and going around 11ty times.
Im used to it! but yes, looks like no one has an answer for this?
faulty wire? how do we get to it?
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ah, another U13 with a busted one... I have no idea mate, heat seems to make it work. May be a bad solder join or something...
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My guess is a cracked track on the circuit board on the back of the cluster.
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All good :)
Swapped the LX series I tacho over. Removed the face from my grey, series II tacho (which had an ABS light as well). Existing series II tacho face had two screws holding it on, took the face off and the needle (thanks Rake!)... took the face off the LX tacho which was glued on (no screws). I just pried it off as I had no use for it.
Swapped the tacho motor bits over onto the grey face and clear plastic stuff, re-fitted, all good :) I also used the clear plastic cover that sits over the instruments from the LX cluster, had to drill another hole in it for the HUD controls however, but worked fine and now the 'speckled' original clear cover is gone, replaced with a nice clear one! :)
Funny that the tacho and clear cover came off sleepa's wreck, that had 459,000km on the dial... still working well! :)