I'd leave it alone, they're a devil of a job to get right and pretty delicate, you could finish up in worse bother.Trainman wrote:following on from Gibbo's point yesterday, the pointer is here:
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which does lead me to believe the pointer is out, now for the strip down..............
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done, but how right it is, only a road test will tell.......... on a side note, I thought I had a couple of bulbs out in the dash, turns out they're LED's
Just taken it for a run, at 60mph on the speedo, the app show 58mph so I'll leave it at that.

Just taken it for a run, at 60mph on the speedo, the app show 58mph so I'll leave it at that.
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Nice work, as I said they can be tricky to get right, shame about the leds but I'm sure you could pop them out and solder in some replacements. 

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I did think about changing the LED's but then again, I'm not sure they're not working, I expected more lights on the dash, like the C6 and they just aren't there.
Plus I'm only planning on keeping this for 12 months.......
Plus I'm only planning on keeping this for 12 months.......
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Can you compare with your dad's C5 Steve? Should be the same.
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Just done that Steve, it's about the same, so I'm leaving it alone now.
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Good work Steve
Fingers crossed all will now be perfect...

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Next few jobs require a trip to ebay for bits but that can wait until later........
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The unanswered question of course, is how did the needle end up so far out of position ?
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Knowing how the needle is keyed onto the stepper motor shaft may offer a clue...Mandrake wrote:The unanswered question of course, is how did the needle end up so far out of position ?
My money is on the stepper motor having been changed at some point in the past and no care was taken to ensure the needle was correctly placed...
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I did contemplate swapping the stepper motors over, but decided against it. I did wonder if they had been swapped over before.......
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IIRc it's just pushed on to a taper so no key.CitroJim wrote:Knowing how the needle is keyed onto the stepper motor shaft may offer a clue...Mandrake wrote:The unanswered question of course, is how did the needle end up so far out of position ?
My money is on the stepper motor having been changed at some point in the past and no care was taken to ensure the needle was correctly placed...
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That would make sense as it would park without obscuring the lcd display.
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Managed to get Lexia on the car today, (Dozy hole, here forgot I'd installed version 5.02 to an old XP laptop I had in the loft)
I've got 3 faults, so I'll have a look at these over the next couple of days:
For a 15 year old car, I'll settle for these.........
I've got 3 faults, so I'll have a look at these over the next couple of days:
For a 15 year old car, I'll settle for these.........
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Steve, I believe that those may be 'phantom' faults. I wish I could remember who (on this forum) mentioned them, but I did, quite some time back, find I had those same three faults on my C5, and the codes matched the Citroen C5 phantom faults.
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