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Old 01-09-2024, 08:53 PM
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Re: What have you done to your SVX (or other Subaru) today?

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Originally Posted by Mike621 View Post
Pulled the instrument cluster from my car to troubleshoot. I found that the speedometer gauge is faulty after another used unit works just fine. I am going to have the capacitors on the speedometer circuit board checked. I’d like to maintain mileage accuracy.

I have also encountered bad capacitors in my tachometer and climate control unit, in 2021 I swapped the tach to resolve, and a friend helped me test and replace some capacitors in the climate unit. I was unable to find a replacement used JDM climate control.
My tachometer doesn’t go above 2000 rpm ever, when I purchased the car Ron told me it probably needed the capacitors replaced. Haven’t gotten around to working on it yet. How hard was it to swap in a replacement tach?
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