Adventures In Speedometer Replacement, or: How Honda Builds Good Stuff For Cheap [How To]
Adventures In Speedometer Replacement, or: How Honda Builds Good Stuff For Cheap
Since I’d already fixed an annoying problem in my Crown Vic, I figured I might as well fix an equally annoying problem in my ’92 Civic: when the temperature dropped below about 50°, the speedometer stopped working.
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, that’s not a big deal for about nine months out of the year, since it stays above 50° most of the time. In the winter, however, it’s pretty maddening. I’ve worked around the problem in the time-honored fashion (memorizing approximate speeds at certain RPMs in a given gear and keeping an eye on the tach), but that method sucks when you’re about to enter a known speed trap.
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