so over the years it would stop working here and there, and my sister had the car so i never knew it was goin on until i started watching her milage...anyway when it would stop workin i would just pound on the top of the dash and it would start workin again...
well yesterday my dad took the car on a road trip and he comes back and from a 500 mile round trip it only read he put 200 on it...so i pounded the top hard and it started workin again...this **** is getting old, i bet the car is missing a few thousand miles! what can i do about this. i hear its a common problem with 5th gen accords...thx

 

possible loose connection on back of instrument cluster thus when you are hitting it ,, it might move around to make connection why dont yopu remove it and chk things back there instead of getting frustrated and hitting the top of the dash ,,i mean it is not going to fix itself by you hitting it

 

whats this i've heard about resetting it too, like a secret button

 

same thing happened to mine, but when it did work, or if it decided to it would reach 20MPH and wouldnt go any higher, i got a new odometer put in and it works fine now, never really found out what it was though...sorry

 

thing is i dont want to put in a new odometer because then i would lose those 140000 hard earned miles and i am going for much more ya know

 

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I had someone do it for me who is a certified mechanic and he had to put some big orange sticker on the door jam that said how many miles were on the odometer when they took it out....

 

how many miles u pushin now

 

uhh well im not entirely sure but the sticker reads 187k and my odometer has about 9.7k so around 196,7xx and counting!

 

I had the same problem with my 5th gen and had the odo replaced and a sticker was placed in the doorjam...

 

Pull the entire cluster out, remove the connectors and use a very good electrical contact cleaner and spray the slots where the plugs contact the printed circuits. You may have a loose wire in one of the connectors or a poor solder on the circuit back there, see if you can trace out the circuit for the ODO. good luck.

Duane in Japan