I picked up my new gauge cluster for my EG Hatch not too long ago. One with a tach on the left.

However, after getting the speed-o's swapped out, and the new cluster installed.. I took my car out for a spin to check if the tach was working properly.


Turns out, it doesn't. I'm not all that mad at the guy that sold it to me. After all, I payed $60 for it. Can't complain.


Scenario - Driving down 95th St. at the top of 2nd (45 MPH) and the tach was reading only 2.4k.


Scenario #2 - Sitting at a stop light, decided to test where my engine would red line at. My engine hopped at a whopping 4.5k steady every time.


Scenario #3 - Cruising down I-35, top of 4th, about to shift into 5th (80 MPH, I drive her hard) and the tach was reading 2.4k.


Scenario #4 - Just ****ing around, just now. Figured out that at the top of 1st (35-40), tach reads 3.5k


I don't know if it makes any difference, but my motor is a D15B7.


Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem? If so, how to fix it?


Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

 

Bump!

Anyone? Please? Need help with this.

 

was there a problem with your speed 0?
But I would recheck for lose wires/connections.

 

check loose wires maybe there was a wire tapped in by an after market tach under the hood that wire being stripped uncovered or loose might cause this

 

souds damaged to me....sell it for 60 and get you money back.....

there are alot of broken items being sold and resold like they are playig hot potato

 

Yes, it's a constant issue.

As for lose wires/connections. I've done that 6 million times. lol. Unless I'm missing something, all the wires are fine.

 

You need to buy a new Cluster, i had the same problem with my Clusters, the one i bought the car with the MPH Gauge was messed up, replaced and didnt have a tach so i got another one, then bought Another Used one, and the Tach was jumping all over the place rofl. i bought a 3rd one and its been fine since, its just the EG clusters take a **** sometimes :\ after all there like 14+ Yrs old

 

OE tachs are know for reading horribly. I regret buying my EX/SI cluster as well. I ended up getting a cheap sun-pro tach and mounting it on the steering column cover. its usually off by ~500rpm at cruise and 1500-2000@ redline