These Speedometers Suck

Fred931 · November 23, 2010, 04:52:02 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpJ9FBVT2Y8

Watch the ending. :icon_lol:

Jonpro03 · November 23, 2010, 11:04:31 AM

This is news?

manifoldsrme · November 23, 2010, 12:25:59 PM

My speedo and odo are 100% inop. Low gas light on. Oil pressure inop, boost gauge works but not accurate, and my HUD just reads 0 all the time. Yeah, that is a lot of fail for one cluster.........

jarrade · November 23, 2010, 02:57:01 PM

On the stock cluster the tach and speedo are off and the gas light never goes off in the heads-up. I changed to the one from my parts car and now the gas light is off but the tach and speedo are still off. Oh and the boost gauge on the stock didnt work but the new 1 does.

Fred931 · November 23, 2010, 03:47:17 PM

Quote from: Jonpro03 on November 23, 2010, 11:04:31 AM
This is news?

You think I think so?

Just thought the commentary was worth a giggle. Or, in my case, literally ROFLMAO'ing.

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To Hades with this, just make a Fred section where I can post all my obnoxious/obvious/extra-off-topic posts. :laugh:

pontiac6ksteawd · December 05, 2010, 01:47:08 AM

Dont let em get to you Fred. They have to rub you the wrong way just to see if you are a TGP'er worth keeping.

RobertISaar · December 08, 2010, 09:59:16 AM

FWIW, i just corrected the speedo and tach in the wife's GP using a pair of potentiometers.

i also resoldered EVERY joint on the back of the PCB.

it used to have the low fuel/check guages on ~75% of the time, speedo and tach were both roughly 3X more than actual, whole lots of stupid stuff.... now it functions perfect.

~90 minutes of time and ~$2 well spent IMO.

killinprixs · December 08, 2010, 12:05:08 PM

Thats awsome, id love to get more info on this... did you just replace the "cut" resistors with potentiometers then adjust them accordingly?

RobertISaar · December 08, 2010, 12:32:14 PM

Quote from: killinprixs on December 08, 2010, 12:05:08 PM
Thats awsome, id love to get more info on this... did you just replace the "cut" resistors with potentiometers then adjust them accordingly?

more or less.

easiest thing to do was to cut the legs off of the pins and have all of the adjustment go through the pot. i think i ended up around ~270K ohms for the speedo and a little higher for the tach... but your results may vary. :icon_biggrin:

http://www.w-body.com/showthread.php/48112-Correcting-the-GP-UB3-cluster-s-speedo-and-tach

that should have enough info and pics for ya.

killinprixs · December 09, 2010, 08:14:23 AM

Thanks a lot..... you definately did work in that thread!! Should be sticky'd!