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Greetings,
My 2001 Volkswagen New Beetle 4 cyl, 2.0 L, Automatic 4-spd has a broken speedometer. I tried plugging the OBD into my laptop while I drove around and I am getting the correct speed showing up on my laptop through the OBD port. On my instrument cluster, the needle will sometimes raise to about 10MPH during vehicle acceleration before snapping back to 0.
I removed the instrument cluster just to get an idea of how it works and when I try moving the needle with my finger I can feel its lack of smoothness. Some folks were saying it's probably the Speed Sensor, but if my OBD is showing the correct speed wouldn't that suggest that the error would be found in between the Speed Sensor and the needle's position?
Anyhow, I would prefer to repair the issue myself than to spend the money sending it in. I heard that as far as instrument clusters are concerned there's no repairing them, only replacing. What do you folks think?
Regards,
J. R. Luscomb
My 2001 Volkswagen New Beetle 4 cyl, 2.0 L, Automatic 4-spd has a broken speedometer. I tried plugging the OBD into my laptop while I drove around and I am getting the correct speed showing up on my laptop through the OBD port. On my instrument cluster, the needle will sometimes raise to about 10MPH during vehicle acceleration before snapping back to 0.
I removed the instrument cluster just to get an idea of how it works and when I try moving the needle with my finger I can feel its lack of smoothness. Some folks were saying it's probably the Speed Sensor, but if my OBD is showing the correct speed wouldn't that suggest that the error would be found in between the Speed Sensor and the needle's position?
Anyhow, I would prefer to repair the issue myself than to spend the money sending it in. I heard that as far as instrument clusters are concerned there's no repairing them, only replacing. What do you folks think?
Regards,
J. R. Luscomb