andrewvorobyev
01-14-2008, 10:56 PM
Hey Guys,
First off, I'd like to say that this is a very informative forum for subaru's. The ONLY one that I've found for Older Legacy's. Now on to the problem. I've done a search on speedo's in this forum, and can't find my exact problem... so I figured I'd ask.
My speedo stopped working about six months ago. My car is a 99 2.2 AT Legacy L. I've been trying to get it to work: here's what I've done:
I DO NOT have a CEL. I have to double check by going to autozone, because my gas light does not come on either, but I have no lit CEL.
The Cruise Control WORKS when the speedo does not, which implies that it is not the VSS2 sensor.
It works when it wants to. Pushing the trip odometer ALL the way back, past where it should stop without applying huge force seems to help, because most of the time it starts working again. When I let it go, it usually stops working again.
EVERYTHING points to a bad speedometer, but I've replaced it with another 99 speedo from a junk yard. I THINK it worked better, but then it died slowly. I replaced it with a 97 speedo from a junk yard, which does not work at all(but it may have different Volts of something, that was just a shot in the dark). A speedo is $150 around my house, so I do not want to dump that money into it without knowing that it'll fix it.
Hitting on the dash does nothing, so I doubt it's a loose wire.
ANOTHER THING. For those of you that have cracked open your cluster. There are 4 connectors that connect to it in the back. There is one connector, the smallest one, that goes directly into the speedo. On all the donor vehicles, I've seen 2 wires connected to it. One Green and one Black. On MY car, there is only one, black/green wire going into it. I don't know if that makes a difference. I do have to say though, that it does work from time to time.
One last thing. If I look under the dash, by the pedals. There are GREEN male and female connectors, that fit into each other, but are not connected. Should I connect them?
Any advice on any of this would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. It drives like a boat. Anything at all besides serious mods to fix that ;0)
First off, I'd like to say that this is a very informative forum for subaru's. The ONLY one that I've found for Older Legacy's. Now on to the problem. I've done a search on speedo's in this forum, and can't find my exact problem... so I figured I'd ask.
My speedo stopped working about six months ago. My car is a 99 2.2 AT Legacy L. I've been trying to get it to work: here's what I've done:
I DO NOT have a CEL. I have to double check by going to autozone, because my gas light does not come on either, but I have no lit CEL.
The Cruise Control WORKS when the speedo does not, which implies that it is not the VSS2 sensor.
It works when it wants to. Pushing the trip odometer ALL the way back, past where it should stop without applying huge force seems to help, because most of the time it starts working again. When I let it go, it usually stops working again.
EVERYTHING points to a bad speedometer, but I've replaced it with another 99 speedo from a junk yard. I THINK it worked better, but then it died slowly. I replaced it with a 97 speedo from a junk yard, which does not work at all(but it may have different Volts of something, that was just a shot in the dark). A speedo is $150 around my house, so I do not want to dump that money into it without knowing that it'll fix it.
Hitting on the dash does nothing, so I doubt it's a loose wire.
ANOTHER THING. For those of you that have cracked open your cluster. There are 4 connectors that connect to it in the back. There is one connector, the smallest one, that goes directly into the speedo. On all the donor vehicles, I've seen 2 wires connected to it. One Green and one Black. On MY car, there is only one, black/green wire going into it. I don't know if that makes a difference. I do have to say though, that it does work from time to time.
One last thing. If I look under the dash, by the pedals. There are GREEN male and female connectors, that fit into each other, but are not connected. Should I connect them?
Any advice on any of this would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. It drives like a boat. Anything at all besides serious mods to fix that ;0)