2.2 Hdi Speedo

wigelywoo · Post by **wigelywoo** » 24 Jun 2010, 18:19

Help
Speedo stopped working, needle flickers when you move off from standstill, but then stays at rest.
Odo still working

Many thanks wigelywoo

Post by **myglaren** » 24 Jun 2010, 19:57

Busted gear on the speedo stepper motor. Snag another from a scrapyard and swap them over.

wigelywoo · Post by **wigelywoo** » 24 Jun 2010, 23:06

myglaren wrote:Busted gear on the speedo stepper motor. Snag another from a scrapyard and swap them over.

Is this in the head, and how do I get to it
Thanks in advance

Post by **myglaren** » 25 Jun 2010, 06:57

If you check around some of the other C5 threads here there are instructions on how to remove the instruments - fairly easy - and how to swap the stepper motors.
You can use the one from the tachometer but then you have to do it all twice if you want the tachometer to work

The same stepper motors are to be found in similar vintage Peugeots too.

Haven't time to look for the threads just now, sorry.

wigelywoo · Post by **wigelywoo** » 03 Jul 2010, 19:24

Fitted the tacho stepper but I may have messed this up. As I didn't know that the motors came off in one piece, I split the motor casings, now I dont know if the spring was in correctly.
So, next step,
Two motors out of a Laguna, these came out without the four wires/pins, So I split the motors and used the conecting bit out of my old motors.
Now, Neither the speedo, nor, the tacho are working, but the needles seem to have stopped flickering.
Do I need C5 motors or Does the car need resetting on a computer?

Post by **myglaren** » 03 Jul 2010, 20:56

To the best of my knowledge they are a straight swap and require no Lexia jiggery-pokery.

wigelywoo · Post by **wigelywoo** » 13 Jul 2010, 22:47

Forgot to say, I removed the plug out of insrument cluster head, before disconnecting battery. Would this have messed things up?
I've been offered a instrument cluster out of scrapper, what happens if I put the doner unit in my car?

Post by **Paul-R** » 13 Jul 2010, 23:27

wigelywoo wrote:Forgot to say, I removed the plug out of insrument cluster head, before disconnecting battery. Would this have messed things up?

No.

wigelywoo wrote:I've been offered a instrument cluster out of scrapper, what happens if I put the doner unit in my car?

Don't do it. If the donor car has a higher mileage recorded than yours then this higher mileage will be PERMANENTLY written to yours.

wigelywoo · Post by **wigelywoo** » 16 Jul 2010, 22:06

If I just use the stepper motors, does it matter if the instrument cluster No. is different. Mine is 4/160m. I can get a cluster, but the Nos. aren't the same.
Thanks

wright · Post by **wright** » 16 Jul 2010, 22:37

i fixed mine yesterday with one i got off a 206, it wasn't exactly the same but i was able to use the casing, once they look the same they should work, but i did use the lexia to calibrate the needle.

wigelywoo · Post by **wigelywoo** » 17 Jul 2010, 16:26

Almost sorted
I fitted stepper motors from C5 Automatic.
I set speedo to zero but found after driving the car speedo was 4-5 mph fast, checked with sat-nav, and needle stops at 5mph when the car is stood.
I can live with this, but will move needle to correct this at later date.
Many thanks to all who have helped.