First general automotive thread started!!!! (heck any kind of automotive thread started)
So about a year ago my odometer just stopped working. I went to fill up my car one day and thought wow, 273 miles on a take is not good. So I reset the guage and noticed that it was still on 0000.00 after I had drived back to Rockhurst. The total miles part read 150,877. Well I am heading back to my place and notice it saying 150,898. I kind of liked knowing that I was getting O miles to the gallon (more like gallons to the mile) But yes, it just randomly started working again. I liked getting the free miles. Oh well.

Something else that happened was when my fan went out. The A/C and heater would work, but the fan would not go above low. Randomly, it started working too..

Any ideas?

Wierd.

(I will save the battery story for another day!)

Call an exorcist.

Likeastone said:

Any ideas?

(I will save the battery story for another day!)

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I wouldn't save the battery story.

Weird electrical gremlins usually aren't unrelated. (Your speedometer and odometer are probably completely electronic, though I am not positive of that.)

*Beyond fuses and relays, I'm wondering about the General Electric Module (GEM), but I don't know enough about those cars to do more than stab in the dark.

No more free miles there, Missy.

Ryan

Now you'll need to start changing the oil again in 3000 miles...

What year is your ZX2?
the heater sounds like the resistor is going out but that normally is just high speed for the fan when they go. the odometer not sure if it is cable driven or off the vss like the trucks or not.

surewhynot said:

Call an exorcist.

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And yell aloud The Power of Christ Compels You!

Wish mine would stop working. 296,000.0 and still going.

well i was going to save the battery story for chris's battery thread but i didnt get to it.

the story really is silly. i was having batter problems about 2 years ago. i had just upgraded the sound system in my car and so we had done a little work on the battery so we would not get zapped. i thought it may have had something to do with that. (the irrelevant part was that i would set the time on the stereo, and then the battery would go out. well the process to set the time consists of a lot of buttons in a specific order. It just got complicated. I would set the time, then my battery would go out, I would set the time, and the battery would go out again. It went on for four or five times.) My dad ended up switching a battery terminal. It was really corroded and coke was not doing the trick. My battery has not gone out since, and my clock still is three and a half hours off.

Since I have not set the clock...the battery has not gone dead. Silly I know, but I just dont remember how to set the clock!

checked out my manuals for my 2000ZX2 and the odometer and speedometer both run off the VSS. So if the speedometer was working it is a mechanical error in the cluster.

Just read you post above. you had the radio and control plate off so I would guess you have a connector not making good contact to the heater switch.

smokey said:

What year is your ZX2?
the heater sounds like the resistor is going out but that normally is just high speed for the fan when they go. the odometer not sure if it is cable driven or off the vss like the trucks or not.

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it is a '98.

Strangely enough, everything that has gone out, starts working again.

radialarm said:

Wish mine would stop working. 296,000.0 and still going.

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Hell...at that point, I'd be getting excited for 4,000 miles from now. I was practically giddy when I took this picture and was pretty damn excited* to watch a friend's '95 PSD roll over 300k (with something like 15k in tow).


On re-reading your post, Erica- just the trip-meter cut out? The odometer and speedometer kept working normally? I'd almost bet on a faulty cluster if that's the case...

the speedometer worked fine. it was the odometer and the trip-meter that quit working.

none of the three big things happened at the same time.

the battery and radio thing could very well have been linked but like i said i was having a problem with corrosion so it needed to be replaced.