Riddle Me This - Not all Speedo's the Same
Riddle Me This - Not all Speedo's the Same
Okay, spent all day fiddling with this and here's the scoop -- not all speedos are the same.
My 98 Contour GL has the basic cluster w/center speedo. I got a cluster from a same-year Mystique w/tach, thinking I could just swap it in one for one. As reported previously, the speedo on this one works and then will die, and then pop back up. There's no pattern to it, but it's obviously unacceptable. So I popped that cluster open, and pulled the speedo.
This one is a small speedo, with a ribbon cable connector. I have a V6 cluster also, but that speedo (while the same size) has 3 prongs as connectors. It won't swap into the planned upgrade cluster. My original GL cluster has the large center speedo (only), and that one won't fit either, even though it has the same ribbon cable connector as it's too large, and has different torx screw mounting holes.
So, back to square one with the plain jane GL cluster installed.
Does anybody have any idea why this Mystique speedo would just die off at certain times, and then pop back into life, only to die off again?
Doing a thorough search, I'm not the only one who's tried this, and others seem to find that it is just a one-for-one swap and will work.
A little help, please?