xantia 1.9td rev counter

toldem_oldham · Unread post by **toldem_oldham** » 29 Dec 2007, 15:10

Hi all went to start xant up today and battery was dead its been sat un run for 4 weeks so i can understand battery been dead but on attempting to start it the rev counter went round past 90 and wont go back to 0 even though i now got battery re charged and car running is this a common thing

AndersDK · Unread post by **AndersDK** » 29 Dec 2007, 18:08

Have you tried tap the instrument cluster to free off the needle

Its more or less a wellknown standard problem on PSA instruments of this vintage.

DickieG · Unread post by **DickieG** » 29 Dec 2007, 22:08

You have two option's, either remove the instrument panel (23 screw's!) or poke a thin piece of wire through the trip reset button to flick the needle back.
As Anders states this is a common problem on S2 Xantia's.

toldem_oldham · Unread post by **toldem_oldham** » 30 Dec 2007, 09:03

I have tried the nudge but not the wire and it is a mk2 xant but never done this before when battery was low so will see what hapens