ok. since about december i've been having problems with my digital odometer in my 99 cavalier. it'll work fine for awhile and then it'll either...
a) trip light and the . (period) for the trip will blink on and off sporatickly (sp?)
b) all the numbers just get screwy. like none of them show up as actual numbers
c) and this last week, the whole odometer went blank on my cross state trek.
and clues on what's wrong with it and if there's anything that can easily fix it?
thanks in advance.
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mines doing the same thing rigfht now on my 99z, its obviously just a bad connection somewhere, the trick is finding
where the bad connection is, and also there isn't usually much you can do about it besides either finding one in a junkyard or getting it replaced with a new LCD screen thing.
My advice would be to just take your dash apart and check the ends of connectors and wires in the cluster area for loose or broken leads, and if your soldering iron is handy, fix the connections yourself.
Just SLAP the top of the dash it will come back to normal. I also have a 99Z.
I can not find were there is a loss connection, I will probly get a new cluster.
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mine did that once but hasn't done it since.
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My 99z does it all the time. What the hell is the big deal. It shows up when the car is not running fine, but as soon as the car is running...jibberish.
oh well so what. It still records the miles.
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That happen with me, i got an 00 cav, and went to a junk yard to get a gauge cluster with a tach since i drive a standard....and so we get it, install it, and theres no miles, im like wtf, oh well all i want is the dash, so im driving and not paying attention and hit this monsterus pothole, boom i got miles again im like sweet, that was bout four months ago, its only shut off maybe 2-3 times since then and i just pound the top of the dash once and it comes back on, hey its hillbilly style but it works. lol.
My digital odometer went out after raido swap, and hasn't worked since. Do I need to replace the instrument cluster?
no, you need to learn how to intall a radio lol
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ya mine is doing it also i just hit it also it will come on when it wants to
2000+ clusters seem to respond well to 'smacking the top of the dash' technique. No idea why. Even some GM techs do it.
99 digital odos just seem to have issues. Mine did it once in a while too. I smacked it a couple times, it was fine til I upgraded the whole electrical system to a 2000.
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my odo. did the same thing and i got a new cluster for it because it was under warranty but about a year latter it did the same thing again
hate to jack the thread but my odo is stuck on trip. it still works but i cant get it back to the odo.
maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow....... but some day
Mine has done it a couple of times, i think its just something internal and probaly not worth fixing.
But i just got a 99 sunfire cluster im going to swap in in place of my stock cavy no tach cluster.
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i have the same problem.. never really think twice about it tho
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My odometer was doing the same thing in my 99 Sunfire....everytime I would turn the car on it would be very dim...I just smacked the dash and it came back....actually it hasn't done it in like a year now.....must of hit it hard enough lol
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