Rev counter working sporadically....???

johnd · Post by **johnd** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:18 am

Rev counter is working on and off. I know people have had this issue before so if you could let me know the remedy it would be great. I assume it may be the contacts on the back of the instruments so if someone could confirm that it would be great before I dismantle the bl$%dy thing!!

Cheers

John

kirsty_2003 · Post by **kirsty_2003** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:20 pm

mine was doing that and the speedo. i had the speedo replaced but still didnt work. so i had some sensor changed (pain in the bum to do) and that seems to have cured it. cant remember the name.
linked to the gearbox and the engine

sorry i wasnt that useful

kirsty

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:26 pm

Not sure if this is the same thing, but twice in the last 3 months I've spotted my revs firmly at zero whilst driving along, but a tap of the plastic screen brings it back to life. It's not dial-peel, so I assume some form of loose connection starting to happen either inside the guage itself or on the PCB to the rear...

johnd · Post by **johnd** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:48 pm

Hi Dragon,

That's exactly it. I am meaning to do the solder points on the connectors but in this weather I can't be arsed. I am sure it is definitely that. Main problem at the moment is my rear demister which I must set aside a couple of hours to check all the wiring. It'll save all those half hours waiting in the morning!

Cheers

John

volvofox · Post by **volvofox** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:54 am

several reasons. most obvious first.
1) the cracked connectorpin weldings.
1 a) green connectorpin connection
2) the magnetically shielded gray speedo wire that is brittle (make a d tour)(for the speedo)
3) current peaks. I saw people having more trouble as there is a low voltage
4) sensor failure

ESone · Post by **ESone** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 7:31 am

I use contact spray for electric and the problem stops

Peter vd P · Post by **Peter vd P** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:37 am

I had the same problem with my speedo for a while, I fixed this problem by hitting the dash a couple of times and after that the problem has been solved (works more than a year perfect now).
I know it sounds unorthodox but it also helped me with my t.v. and my computer.

Peter

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:59 am

That's typically called an "engineer's fix" and is a perfectly valid way to repair TVs, PCs, Cars and pretty much anything

johnd · Post by **johnd** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:06 pm

Peter,

Don't hit your computer....you'll knacker you HDD. Speaking from personal experience here!!

John

Peter vd P · Post by **Peter vd P** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:12 pm

Hi John,

The problem is, that if I don't hit my computer it won't start up, e.g. it says that it cannot find any harddrives.
But fortunately my boss is very generous, so I bought a new one with the "pc prive project" (don't know the name in english)

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:19 pm

johnd wrote:Peter,

Don't hit your computer....you'll knacker you HDD. Speaking from personal experience here!!

John

He he - at the risk of getting you back up John (not intended), I seriously doubt that you knackered your HDD by hitting your computer, unless by hitting it you are REALLY whacking it, or picking it up and dropping it on a hard surface, and even then, it's unlikely to damage a HDD unless the heads were on the platter at the time.

Modern drives (I mean any drive made in the last 7 years really) are made to withstand shocks of between 5 and 8G, thats a hurrendous amount of force to generate that. The heads autopark within a millisecond of finishing a read/write phase, securing the head and arm out of harms way of the platter.

I used to work for Escom, making and repairing PCs and we all hit computers at time to time as part of the diag routine, and we never broke a disk (or anything else) doing it.

I suspect your HDD was probably on the virge of death already, unless you really did whallop it whilst it was on and in use?

ESone · Post by **ESone** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:54 pm

i broke a finger toe by hitting my computer...i laugh now but when it happens i as so furious