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Nissan Xterra Gauges
falconsixty3
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I have a 2000 SE, and I love it. I have a problem with the gauges, however. Especially when its hot, all of the gauges(fuel, rpm, speedo, temp, and odometer) will just go out. Sometimes they come back on and other times they don't work. I'm a mechanic, so i can fix the problem if i know what it is, I was just gonna see if anyone has had this problem before(might save me some diagnostic time). Thanks.
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Please report back when you figure it out.
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Now it has gotten to where the speedometer will freeze where it is sometimes along with the tachometer. I'm off work today, so i try and get it to act up. The problem has been that it always acts up where I can't get a chance to look at it.
I'll let you know if i can figure anything out.
Since I wasn't 100% sure if that was it, put it back together. I have noticed that the left side of the gauges gets hot sometimes though. I've thought about drilling a small hole in the plastic cover and waiting until it goes out again, and spraying something like air duster in it to see if they come back on when it cools off.
I'm pretty sure, the actual circuit board is the problem. I have kept a close eye on how hot the gauges get, and I try to turn the illumination down at night so they won't get too hot then also.
Problem was intermittent making it harder to fix! The last time(2008) my Xterra did this I stoped to the side of the road. What luck when a mechanic at a place I buy from reconized my yellow xterra stop behind me to see if something was wrong! After I explained the problem He repeated a saying my father allways told my, "all problems seem simple after there fixed".
Here is what he did:1- He took an old CD in it's sleeve and a screwdriver out from the trunk of his car. 2-at my car He removed the ignition cap, rotor and module. 3- NOW HE PLACED THE CD OVER THE IGNITION'S SHAFT!$$$$$$. He said I'll explain later!-I said I had replaced all those parts 3weeks before my gauge problem started. 4-He removed the CD and showed me a silver timing disc with lots of slits. "THERES YOUR PROBLEM".
I gave Him a $20,He came back 20mins with a new disc, put everything back. FIXED!!!
I later looked with a magnifiying glass and found various misalinged slits. I called Him and He said "remember why you always cover the intake when removing a carb because of dirt, that was the reason for the CD on the ignition shaft to aviod getting foreign objects on the disc!
now laugh!!!!