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Okay, I finally got around to putting the Contour SVT gauges I bought into my 95 SE. All the instruments work except the speedometer. Tach works, temp, fuel, all the idiot lights. I didn't have time tonight to look through my service manual to cross-check. It plugged right in without any wiring difficulties. If anyone has had a similar experience, please let me know. I could sort it out by myself, but getting the time to do so is hard.
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Does the 95 have a mechanical or electrical speedo??
I will have to check and see.
I just did a quick look up on fordpartsonline and found that all cable assy's are the same from 95-00 as well as the printed circuit boards (which are pretty cheap!!). So that means they are all electrical.
Is your 95 SE a manual or automatic? That might have something to do with it, since I did see that there was a difference in the printer circuit boards there.
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isn't the reason it doesn't work is because the 95 doesn't have or is not compatable with the SVT speedo that reads to 160
I thought I remember reading that putting a SVT guages into a 98+ it would work with out a problem
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Well I did some checking and there is a break on the printed circuit board on the back of the cluster. I'm going to just order a new one from one of the dealers listed on the site.
Thanks again.
I'll post the followup once I install the new printed board on the cluster.
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I had a problem putting mine in. Couldn't get the gas gauge to work. I think the cluster is broke. I have a 99 and the cluster is out of a 98.
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Some of the 95's had a mechanical speedometer and some were electrical. I have two 95's, and I have one of each. The early model 95's were mechanical, and then sometime during the year, Ford switched to electrical. I don't remember the exact build date when the switch occurred, but I think it was around the end of 94 or really early in 95.
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Originally posted by bentleywarren:
Some of the 95's had a mechanical speedometer and some were electrical. I have two 95's, and I have one of each. The early model 95's were mechanical, and then sometime during the year, Ford switched to electrical. I don't remember the exact build date when the switch occurred, but I think it was around the end of 94 or really early in 95.
See, that is what I was looking for in my earlier post. I knew that I had read in a thread a long time ago that all were electrical, cause I was responding to a guy with a problem and was talking about working on a mechanical cluster. Then someone replyed that all contours clusters were electrical.
So, that is why I went to fordpartsonline and looked the parts up. Only difference I could find was w/tach, w/o tach, auto & manual tranny. All years were list as 95-00.
Bently, I believe you. Ifyou own one of each, then that is all the proof I need right there. I'm just wondering why they would list the parts as working across all model years. I have ran into that a few times with them and Bill's site. 
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I just went back and rechecked the information for the printed circuit boards of the instrusment clusters and found that all parts listed are for build dates from 2/95 on. That would mean that not only are you right about mechanical gauges being built in the earliest of contour's (with build dates in `94), but it also means that we might not be able to get replacement gauges for these cars as well, since none of them are listed.
Just wanted to share that bit of information, since this could helpful to someone in the future.
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