Mk 1 Tuscan - odd speedo behaviour.

Mk 1 Tuscan - odd speedo behaviour.

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swisstoni

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Sunday 25th August 2019
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Odd situation yesterday where after about 10 mins into the journey it looked like the large speedo hand had disappeared!
After a couple of seconds I found it moving about at the bottom of the display. Car was on the motorway at the time.
Sometimes the hand would also sweep around at random, so it hadn’t simply fallen off. hehe
The digital speedo was still accurate however.

Then a little later the digital display started getting erratic too, with the odd 3 figure display.

On the return journey, again everything started out as normal but again, a few min in the analogue hand started wandering around at random but this time the digital stayed ok.

Anyone come across this behaviour, or any thoughts?

swisstoni

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17,021 posts

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Sunday 25th August 2019
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Thanks for the info.
That doesn’t sound too bad.
I really wasn’t fancying having problems at the speedo end.

swisstoni

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280 months

Tuesday 27th August 2019
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Looks like they are consumables. hehe

I’ve found a comprehensive description of the job from way back in the PH golden era, for anyone who’s interested ...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Being lazy I might try a blast of WD40 first.