Re: flippy electronics

[Alan Cordeiro <cordeiro@avlna.com>]

At 09:09 AM 3/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Once or twice a week, my speedometer starts behaving weirdly - it hesitates,
>seems to stick, then jerks ahead. Or just stays at one speed, unrelated to my
>real speed.  At the same time, the Average MPH function on the computer
>misreads, way low.  Anyone have any ideas about the cause, or the cure?
>
>Thanks-
>

The symptoms indicate a bad connection on the baack of the instrument
panel PC ( really a "flex circuit" ). However, I cannot explain how
your speedometer would STAY at one speed, until I cleaned up all
my connectors ( with industrial flux followed by contact lubricant 0
my speedometer would go to zero....

Alan