EB Falcon Odometer/TripMeter Failure

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John - 11 May 2004 18:53 GMT

Hi,

Both the odometer and trip meter on my EB Falcon have stopped working. But
the speedo still works fine.

Is this a common problem?

Any cheap fix?

Thanks

John

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ccwhite - 12 May 2004 10:38 GMT

John,
There are two wires from your speed sensor a white and a red (suposed to be
these coulours) and the wire from the speedo to the trip computer is red, i
would say that the red wire output is distance reading to the odometer and
trip computer and the white wire is the speed reading to the speedo.
so probably faulty red wire from speed sensor to odo input in speedo or a
fualty speed sensor.
regards col

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John - 13 May 2004 03:45 GMT

Hi Col,

Thanks for the reply and the info.

I'm assuming the the speed sensor is in the gearbox. Is that correct? (my
car has a manual gearbox).

Also, when you say "the wire from the speedo to the trip computer is red",
I'm not
sure how this relates to my car. My car only has a simple trip meter (not
really a computer).
The speedo and trip meter are all part of one big "part" that includes
tacho, speedo,
odometer, trip meter, warning lights, guages, etc.

Thanks again

John

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ccwhite - 13 May 2004 10:19 GMT

sorry john was thinking of trip computer, same applies though, its either no
signal from the red wire from sensor, the speed sensor or the internals of
the odo/trip meter, as far as i know the sensor is in the gear box, its in
the trans in an auto

col

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John - 16 May 2004 16:19 GMT

Thanks Col.

I was hoping someone might say it's a common problem with say the sensor or
the odometer. I found a few posts where people have had the same problem,
but no-one has followed up with what was required to fix the problem.

Cya

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Uncle Chop Chop - 13 May 2004 11:53 GMT

what are you worried about, just get it fixed (speedo gauge itself) prior
to you planning to sell it.

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John - 16 May 2004 16:21 GMT

Hi Chop,

Yeh. I find the trip meter pretty convenient as my car runs on LPG and the
current LPG gauge is pretty useless.

Cya

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