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Morning all,

on my way to work this morning cruiseing through the local neighbourhood i noticed that the speedo was reading awefully high. when cruising through the main streets at approx 60km, the speedo was reading around 100! and it was flying up like crazy through each gear!

I stopped the car and turned it off then back on twice, even tried starting it in just rear wheel with 4wd disabled but no good. Whats happened!

Please help, i had to drive my mum's magna to work... Do you know what that feels like!

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Absolutely no idea what driving your mum's Magna would feel like!

Sounds like either the magnet drive on the back of the speedo is catching on the input, or the counter-spring is dying.

Its prob a good thing you dont know what driving my mums magna feels like :wub:

And if its this how hard is it to fix. i have no idea how to check this out to see if its the problem. do i simply take out the speedo and check for loose wiring / sh1tty spring?? would it be causing any harm drving it as it is at the moment, besides clocking up a shite load of extra km's?

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ok yesterday arvo i decided to take the car for a spin to see if it was still happening. On the first drive it was still out but not as much. after leaving a mates house it was fine and back to normal. I dont know what the hell was happening, probly something was loose. ???

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I have the same problem my spedo is about 20 ks out..

is it constantly about 20km's out?? mine was way out then was only a bit out then was back to normal. its the first time its ever done it. a mate said yesterday that he had a similar problem and he ended up shoving the cluster around and it went back to normal. almost as if something had come a bit loose.

I wonder if this is a common problem for skylines. i havent really heard of many other people coming across this.

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