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Old Aug 31, 2007 | 11:30 AM
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when i bought my trans am the cluster was messed up due to the previous owner taking the needles out.
is there a place i can send it to be fixed?
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Old Aug 31, 2007 | 12:45 PM
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get a new(to you) one from a junk yard, best option lol
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i want the same milage
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Old Aug 31, 2007 | 08:10 PM
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what year is it? it should be a digital odometer which the number is saved into the computer soo no matter if the donor cluster came from a car with 1,000,000,000,000 miles on it, it will show the mileage your car has on it
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its a 98 and i tried that and it should be 44,000 but it came up 113,000
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what else is wrong with it other than the mileage?
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the original cluster none of the needles work
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When I worked at the dealership we had places to send out our clusters to. Not sure how you would find out the source directly, but if you've got the $, I know the dealerships can do it right.
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do you know what the dealership charges?
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Man, I wanna say that I remember charging a couple of hundred bucks a pop, but the mileage was verifiable to a significant extent, and would "check out" under a car-fax type reference system.
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You can dismantle the cluster and swap over the odometer part. I do not believe that needle removal is necessary. I'm almost certain you don't have to remove the needles to do it.

Really not as hard as it looks. Just pay close as you dismantle it.
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I don't mean to be argumentative, but they made the odo. difficult to tamper with on purpose. You may have skills that far surpass my own, but I would leave this job to the professionals.
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weird i never knew that the odo reading stays with the cluster... soo basicly you can go find a wrecked fbody with 2k miles on it, take its cluster. kind of scary
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weird i never knew that the odo reading stays with the cluster... soo basicly you can go find a wrecked fbody with 2k miles on it, take its cluster. kind of scary
And knowing is half the battle!

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