MY DASH AND SPEED ISNT WORKING

[Jonic]

MY DASH AND SPEED ISNT WORKING

So i bought a R34 Turbo, it was pretty dodgy but anyways as I was driving my Speed and Kilometers just dropped down to 0 randomly, when i tap the dash or hit it lightly it comes back on for abit until i hit like a bump or something and then it goes off again, would it be a simple fuse problem, maybe the battery, or some burnt loose wires behind the dash ?

My dash light all works and light up just the speedo and that doesn't work, I can't tell what speed im going :S 

 

Thanks guys

Edited September 9, 2016 by Jonic

[89CAL]

Speed and kilometers? You mean speedometer and tachometer?

I would pull the dash cluster out and look for anything obvious. It almost certainly wont be a fuse because 99% of the time, once they are gone they are gone. I would put money on a bad connection into the cluster or a wire rubbed through or damaged. Worst case - internal defect in the cluster which may be repairable

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Sounds like an Edward Lee's SE

[Jonic]

Yeah not sure, Gonna get a whole new dash Cluster and replace it. Seems too dodgy the one i have on the car. 

Most of the time i dont even know how fast im going zz

[KiwiRS4T]

9 hours ago, Jonic said:

Yeah not sure, Gonna get a whole new dash Cluster and replace it. Seems too dodgy the one i have on the car. 

Most of the time i dont even know how fast im going zz

Its a common problem. Used to get it a lot with my Stagea. Stopped, pulled off  a battery terminal and put it back and it would be fixed for hours or days or months. Just came right by itself. Some people touch up the soldered connections with a soldering iron or even just a heat gun. new cluster could be just the same. Could be sometimes down to car sitting unused for a while.

[Jonic]

Kiwi thanks a lot man I'm gonna try that battery terminal method and if that doesn't work then I'll check the cluster, thanks for the info I'll get back to this and see how it went