ODO and TRIP stopped working...

[Fairlady280Z]

Ok today i noticed my ODOmeter in my '95 S14 was stuck right at 83999miles and my trip was still at 89.6 miles...which was odd since it was at 89.6 the day before. I reset the trip and it stayed at 00.0 the whole way to work and my odo still right at 83999...did my ODO and TRIP just break/stop working or is it maybe just stuck??? please help!
Modified by Fairlady280Z at 2:31 PM 4/29/2009

[94_240sx]

There's a small motor that runs them. It could be bad.

[bradt]

You got the top score. You won.

[blacksrjdm]

Try a different cluster. might have taken a poop on ya.

[Fairlady280Z]

There's a small motor that runs them. It could be bad.

How can i replace the motor? and what does it look like?

Try a different cluster. might have taken a poop on ya.

After only 84k miles? How come my friends s13s are all past 180k on their odometers and theres still works? gdam i have no fkn luck with this car and im trying to sell it too...Well if i change the cluster how will ppl know my car legitimately has low miles?

[xX RB Xx]

just leave it like it is..

so when you sell it you can claim it only has 84k

[94_240sx]

How can i replace the motor? and what does it look like?

I realized that you have s14 after I post it. There's a motor on s13, but not sure on s14. If you really want to make it work, buy a used one off eBay and swap the whole thing or just the motor.

[Nacho_240]

The same thing happened to me. I bought a new JDM cluster and replaced the JDM odometer with my USDM odometer (which wasn't working on my USDM cluster) and everything starting working again. Now my ODO reads in miles and my TRIP ODO reads in kilometers.

Note: replacing the trip odo will surely fix that as well.

[blacksrjdm]

After only 84k miles? How come my friends s13s are all past 180k on their odometers and theres still works? gdam i have no fkn luck with this car and im trying to sell it too...Well if i change the cluster how will ppl know my car legitimately has low miles?

Cant speak for your friends, but, seems to me that theirs still work, and for whatever reason, yours doesnt. I wouldnt spend too much time on why, I would just buy a diff cluster and make sure that it is the cluster and not anything else. If your selling it, provide the old cluster for proof of low mileage. Then again, the whole issue is then questionable, because how does the buyer know that you are being truthful anyway? How does anyone really know that this cluster hasnt been bad for 50000 miles. Not accusing just giving you other hypotheticals to consider. I would note that the title has low mileage with the short time of ownership, and so forth. Even with a working cluster with higher mileage, you should be able to convince the buyer of the low mileage.

[Fairlady280Z]

Cant speak for your friends, but, seems to me that theirs still work, and for whatever reason, yours doesnt. I wouldnt spend too much time on why, I would just buy a diff cluster and make sure that it is the cluster and not anything else. If your selling it, provide the old cluster for proof of low mileage. Then again, the whole issue is then questionable, because how does the buyer know that you are being truthful anyway? How does anyone really know that this cluster hasnt been bad for 50000 miles. Not accusing just giving you other hypotheticals to consider. I would note that the title has low mileage with the short time of ownership, and so forth. Even with a working cluster with higher mileage, you should be able to convince the buyer of the low mileage.

yea thats exactly my predicament, the car is a KA-T S14, and i decided to put it up for sale this weekend with high hopes that at least hey the car has low miles on the chassis and original motor ...so no problems! But then the odo and trip have to break of all the things that matter for selling a car this old...do you think carfax shows the miles too? because when i got the title the tag agency said they didnt need the mileage because the car was +10 years old

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Things get old, they break.

[BoBa524]

my car does that all the time, whenever it reaches the 999s it gets stuck and doesnt want to roll over. Give it a few hundred miles, it will roll over.

[Nacho_240]

yea thats exactly my predicament, the car is a KA-T S14, and i decided to put it up for sale this weekend with high hopes that at least hey the car has low miles on the chassis and original motor ...so no problems! But then the odo and trip have to break of all the things that matter for selling a car this old...do you think carfax shows the miles too? because when i got the title the tag agency said they didnt need the mileage because the car was +10 years old

Yes carfax does take the mileage into consideration. Just buy a new cluster and swap the 2 odometers. Problem solved! It's not that difficult.

[Fairlady280Z]

my car does that all the time, whenever it reaches the 999s it gets stuck and doesnt want to roll over. Give it a few hundred miles, it will roll over.

Wait your S14 does this too?? so I dont just have a cursed S14? seriously this is the best news Ive heard all week lol. Thanks man, im gonna drive the car more see if itll finally roll over.

Yes carfax does take the mileage into consideration. Just buy a new cluster and swap the 2 odometers. Problem solved! It's not that difficult.

oh good, so if it doesn't roll over on its own like BoBa said, i just swap the ODO from the new cluster onto my current one? Or swap my old ODO onto the new cluster and install that one?

Thanks for the replies btw guys
Modified by Fairlady280Z at 9:51 AM 4/30/2009

[tlkq]

Get a new cluster, take out the ODO and set it to the mileage of the old cluster, install new cluster. Done.

[Nacho_240]

Or swap my old ODO onto the new cluster and install that one?

Modified by Fairlady280Z at 9:51 AM 4/30/2009

That one. Or you could do what this guy said, but it takes MUCH longer.

Get a new cluster, take out the ODO and set it to the mileage of the old cluster, install new cluster. Done.