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$35 in Canberra? Where Lucien????

My cable has been rattling since I've owned the car, and I'm keen to get it replaced...

Not in Canberra, but GaugeWorks in SA. Its $35 to have the inner cable replaced, and a few dollars more to replace the connectors at each end. All up GaugeWorks charged me $58 (inc postage). I sent it on Tuesday and had it back on Friday.

I've just finished installing it, so if you have any questions, fire away.

Fair enough. Its a pretty "simple" job in terms of skills. I must confess I did it the dangerous way with the tyre jack that comes in the boot (highly not recommended if you value your life). Basically goes a little like this:

1. Remove bottom dash. Remove the surrounds from the steering column. Remove the dash surround. Remove the gauge cluster.

2. Disconnect the speedo cable from the dash (it clips in).

3. Disconnect the speedo cable from the gearbox.

4. From underneath the car, look up at the firewall where the speedo cable passes through. There is a rubber triangle with three bolts (10mm; two at the bottom, one at the top). Remove the bolts and pull out the triangle.

5. The speedo cable has a number of plastic cylinders on it that hook on to points of the underbody. Unclip them. You need to feed the speedo cable towards the rear of the car until the end that connects to the speedo is out of the cabin.

6. You will then need to feed the cable towards the front of the car to actually get it out as the rubber triangle is too big to pass all the obstructions when feeding it to the rear of the car.

As I said, pretty simple. All you really need is a jack, a ratchet with 10mm socket, an adjustable wrench (or a spanner of some unknown size) and a phillips head screwdriver.. and some patience :P

  • 2 weeks later...

May be a dumb question but my mates speedo stopped working then about 10 mins later his power steering cut out and would stay off until the car was switched off, then it would work again for a little while.... Tonight my speedo stopped working then about 10 mins later my power steering did the same thing, is this a common thing too, or just a very weird coincidence?????

It is related.

Where the cable goes into the rear of the speedo module, there is a pickup for ground speed.

No cable rotate : No ground speed signal sent to control modules.

The ~10 mins is the failsafe timeout.

James.

Made my day too!! :wub:

Ive been driving around with no cable for ages. Took it out cos I buggered it when taking out the dash. Hopefully when I put a new one in, all will be good :stupid:

So sick of turning the car off while driving and then clutching it back on LOL. Every ten minutes.

  • 1 month later...

sorry to bring up an old thread, but i just wanted to say that when i repaired my speedo plastic needle with electrical heat shrink, it eventually desintegrated and my speedo failed to work again.

I have since purchased a new gtr speedo cable brand new from nissan at 90 bucks trade price. spent about 2 hours removing and refitting, if anyone has done it, OMFG I HATE THE TRIANGLE BIT.

On a related issue, done anyone have a probelm when the go above a speed limit and the needle kinda "sticks" then moves, "sticks" then moves? ie. its not smooth movement? mine seems to do it after 110. really gay, but not a big issue as im a good boy and stick to the 110km/h limit :D:P

  • 3 weeks later...

may be a dumb question but on the dash end of the speedo cable, is the white plastic thingy with the spring inside it ment to be attached to the metal end of the speedo cable housing? or does it just sit in there on top of it freely? i can just pull it straight out??

cheers

Josh

Edited by Josh_r32
actually its part of the cable and should not come out if its new.. sounds like you got the problem we have all had... soon it will get stuffed and you will have to let nissan hold onto your wallet.

bye bye

thanks, so if i get a new cable it will come with the plastic bit with the spring inside it etc all attached?

Edited by Josh_r32
thanks, so if i get a new cable it will come with the plastic bit with the spring inside it etc all attached?

yep about 100 bucks. if you check my SIGNATURE, i will have u the part number tonight. about 10pm brisbane time.

Edited by arbess
  • 3 weeks later...
On a related issue, done anyone have a probelm when the go above a speed limit and the needle kinda "sticks" then moves, "sticks" then moves? ie. its not smooth movement? mine seems to do it after 110. really gay, but not a big issue as im a good boy and stick to the 110km/h limit :):D

Yep. Yours will probably also do it at really low speeds, like <30kmh

And yeah, totally ghey. I thought it only happened with old speedo cables though? Weird.

  • 1 month later...

Would the speedo cable be suspect in my case?

This happens 80% of the time when driving. My speedo needle MOVES, but it moves not in accordance to the speed i'm actually doing. So for example, i accelerate to what 60kmh should be and its hovering around the 180-190+ mark. If i do 100, it moves all the way round and stops at the bottom of the rest pin.

Once in a while it'll go back to normal and show the correct speed. Then 5 mins later it's doing crazy stuff all over again.

I also have no idea how to get the cluster out to check it. Is there a tutorial on this?

Yes and yes. :rolleyes:

Tutorial to get your dash cluster out:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=115618

Haven't seen one for replacing the cable but there are lots of threads with references to doing the job.

HTH

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