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Car Forum / Nissan / Nissan Cars / October 2006

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88 sentra gauge cluster freaking out.

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lee.kevin@comcast.net - 02 Oct 2006 09:31 GMT
Looking to buy this car...maybe.  I haven't viewed this problem myself
yet.  2nd hand info.

Apparently the speedo twitches and jumps and spazzes.  That's the cable
hanging, right?

The real problem is that the Temp and Fuel gauges apparently wig-out
and go dead and then spike suddenly and so it goes.  Potentially my 1st
Nissan and an old one at that.  Any idea what this problem is getting
me into?  Thanks for the help.

kevin
Steve T - 04 Oct 2006 04:53 GMT
> Looking to buy this car...maybe.  I haven't viewed this problem myself
> yet.  2nd hand info.
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> The real problem is that the Temp and Fuel gauges apparently wig-out
> and go dead and then spike suddenly and so it goes.

The temp and fuel are a dash voltage regulator issue. Not sure if that model
has a cable driven speedo or if it's electronic..
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lee.kevin@comcast.net - 04 Oct 2006 07:18 GMT
What kind of $ are we talking?  And where is it located?  Pretty easy
to get to/access?  Thanks!

KL

> The temp and fuel are a dash voltage regulator issue. Not sure if that model
> has a cable driven speedo or if it's electronic..
Steve T - 05 Oct 2006 06:17 GMT
> What kind of $ are we talking?  And where is it located?

On the back of the dash unit. It's been a dozen years since I repaired one
of these.

> Pretty easy
> to get to/access?

I have no idea of your mechanical skills. Seems simple enough to me, I've
seen people break the dash trying to work on them so can't say if it would
be easy for you.

I'd probably charge a couple of hundred bucks to do it just because it would
take some time doing research to find where it is, how to get it apart to
replace it and dig up the repair parts + actually do the repair. We are at
$75 an hour if that helps you figure out how difficult this will be to deal
with if you ARE good with mechanical things and understand electronics.

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