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Sticky Gauge Needles

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truthautomatic

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The Speedo and Tach needles on my 00 GT are "sticky". In the morning they dont work until I have driven the car for about 10 minutes and after that they are sticky, ill be braking from 40mph to a stop and ill see the needle jump from 40 to 20 then 0. Tach has the same issue. The other gauges all work fine just the speedo and tach.

I cant seem to find new gauge motors anywhere and I dont want to replace the whole dash. Is there a quick fix for this?
 

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Try lifting the needles off the face of the gauges, my car was doing the same so I ordered some white face gauges and made sure there was a little space between the needle and the gauge and it should work.
 

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My car did the same thing! Never found out the origin of the issue though
 

wmburns

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Check out the following on bad printed circuit foil traces. This could cause problems with cluster operation on 99-04 MY.

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