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Old 06-24-2015, 06:24 AM
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Hey guys I have been out of the Honda thing for a while but just picked up an swapped EK hatch to have fun with.

I was driving yesterday and all the sudden the Speedometer and Odometer stopped working. Do you have any idea where to start the trouble shooting?

I see the car has a obd2-obd1 Jumper on an OBD1 computer. The car is a LS Vtec LS trans. I checked the VSS connection at the transmission and it was tight and clean.

Any ideas??


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CEL codes?
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maybe change the speed sensor?

Last edited by D16Z6_Trung; 06-24-2015 at 06:05 PM. Reason: either that or the panel it self need to be look at
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No CEL but I just read the other thread about possibly being the Speedometer Board in the cluster itself so I am going to check it out.

I did notice at high RPM the tach and speedometer out jump all around but then all the sudden the speedometer just stopped.
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Check the FAQs and find the fuse 15 TSB. Read it and you should be able to fix the issue

http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/tsb/civic/x99-029e.pdf
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Default Re: Speedometer and ODO stopped working

speed sensor,also check the cluster...try putting in a different one and see what happens, there's also a possibility a fuse is bad under your dash.please check them
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The speedometer was dead in my car not too long ago and it wasn't the speed sensor. I took apart the cluster and it seemed the needle was 'sticky'. Lubed it a little which got the needle to go up a little but wasn't close to accurate. Ended up buying a cluster from ebay and swapping the speedometer. Now it works
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Does the CEL work?
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Default Re: Speedometer and ODO stopped working

check everything others have stated. My speedo stopped on me but once in a while it would jump at random. I removed the speed sensor and there was a fair amount of slop in the shaft. I bought a replacement online and the problem disappeared.
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Default Re: Speedometer and ODO stopped working

Digging further into it, its intermediate. At high RPM's it jumps around a lot but driving normal it seems to be pretty solid.

Im going with either the VSS is truly going out, or the board in the cluster. I put it all back together and drove 200 miles and it hasn't gone back off just jumps around at WOT and 6+k RPM.
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