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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

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Andy219
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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

Post by Andy219 » Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:53 am

Hi guys,

I was just driving home when this happened...

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Rev counter works as normal but speedo does nothing.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,

Andy.

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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

Post by Scooba_Steve » Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:54 pm

I assume its a wheel speed sensor or something similar. Need to read codes really, get yourself the kit to do it.
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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

Post by Andy219 » Fri Dec 30, 2016 3:50 pm

Used a maxiscan OBD reader and no codes came up :?

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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

Post by firebobby » Fri Dec 30, 2016 4:00 pm

It's normally battery related when you have this type of thing happen
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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

Post by Jay_Essemm » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:35 pm

Did you manage to get this fixed? I seem to have the exact same warning lights and speedo problem.

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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

Post by Beynon5 » Sun Feb 05, 2017 3:22 pm

I had this around a month ago - its battery related - had no OBD issues, swapped battery as the voltage was less than perfect and voila.. fixed!

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Post by Roundozo » Sun Feb 05, 2017 4:02 pm

Could also be abs sensor if the setup is anything like the E46. Rear NS (might have OS but can't remember now) abs sensor also ran the feed for the speedometer. It was a simple fix of replacing the sensor and all done. It was interesting as I noticed while it was broken I could drive around (using sat nav as a speedometer) and the millage wouldn't go up. Bit naughty I thought. :thumbsup:
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Dash lights on and speedo unresponsive, help!

Post by Jay_Essemm » Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:36 pm

Beynon5 wrote:I had this around a month ago - its battery related - had no OBD issues, swapped battery as the voltage was less than perfect and voila.. fixed!
Did you lose the speedo too?

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Post by Beynon5 » Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:20 pm

you may have sorted this already but yes, I was getting intermittent speedo (which is a bizarre fault to go with electrical issues!)

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