Broken Needles

[AZxMP3]

Well im fooked..... I broke the posts of the two small needles ( fuel & temp ) while trying to take them off.. I had no problem with the speed & tach needles they came off just fine using some TLC. Anyone selling or know how much the gauge cluster pod for our cars is??? I did a search in our MP3 site but never came up with a price.. any help would be great.. I now have indiglo blue needles. They look sweet against the red background. Now I have to calibrate the tach and speedometer and it looks like crap on the left side with just the two holes and no needles. Not really worth the $70 blue needles now that I have to buy a $300-$500 gauge cluster if thats a good estimate on what it costs, I dunno... Oh well.. again any help would be great...

 

[LinuxRacr]

The gauge cluster is over $400. I may get a new one. When installing my Indiglo Gauges, the Temp and the Fuel needls got phucked. I use the tripometer to tell me when I need to re-fuel, and the Temp Gauge works sometimes.:mad: Sometimes I wish that our gauges were like the Honda gauges!!

 

[AZxMP3]

Linux, I hear ya.... I took the cluster apart today and the fuel and temp thing-a-ma-jig can be taken out and replaced. So instead of replacing the cluster, the coils or whatever they are can be replaced providing that you could find the correct ones. ( maybe a salvaged Pro or a P5 that have the same pod as we do ) Now I had to reset the computer on the car to re-calibrate the speedometer which turned out fine. The irony is that if you replace the whole cluster, from what a Mazda tech told me today, is that there will be an odometer discrepency. So either way it seems im SOL...

 

[LinuxRacr]

Hey,

I don't understand how there will be an odometer discrepency if you change the cluster. I thought that the odometer info was kept in the ECU?

 

[AZxMP3]

From what the tech at Berge Mazda here in AZ told me is that when you switch out the unit, the odometer will not match up with the ECU on the car.. The odometer in the pod is one milage tracking system and the ECU is another. Thus making it impossible to fraud your milage. Though who knows until you try but I dont see why a tech would tell me otherwise. I have never heard of two seperate milage tracking devices, but thinking about it makes sense.

 

[Sir Nuke]

From what the tech at Berge Mazda here in AZ told me is that when you switch out the unit, the odometer will not match up with the ECU on the car.. The odometer in the pod is one milage tracking system and the ECU is another. Thus making it impossible to fraud your milage. Though who knows until you try but I dont see why a tech would tell me otherwise. I have never heard of two seperate milage tracking devices, but thinking about it makes sense.

its REAL simple why they tell you stuff that don't make sence...THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE!! and they are trying to get you to buy a NEW one and not do the job yourself.....THATS WHY....