Today on my lunch break I hustled to my car and drove away to grab some food and I noticed that the speedometer needle was "lagging" when accelerating and coming to a stop. Its like 12 degrees or less right now in Iowa I guess and I assumed that was to blame as my engine was noticeably louder and I didnt warm my car up before taking off. I kept it running after I got home for about 20 minutes or so hoping that it would warm up and it would go back to normal but it didnt. I did not notice this problem this morning on the way to work when it was colder,, or any other cold time before this.

is it probably just the cold weather? or could something be going out coincidently on a cold day? lol i just want it to be working like it should. Its probably nothing but as I was backing out of my parking space on break I kinda scraped the bottom of my front bumper on the curb as I got a little too close this morning. That wouldnt have anything to do with it though, would it? (I have no idea how that system works and where the parts are located.)

 

Could be the stepper motor going bad. Keep an eye on it could go away.

 

Stepper motor going bad, mine was bad when I got my 04.

 

Stepper motor going bad, my wife's 2005 Impala SS an My 2005 Monte carlo SS did that ..I changed the stepper motor in both .. not hard to do if you can solder..

 

how much would that be for a shop to do? and would they replace the stepper motor or want to replace the whole instrument cluster? this really sucks i dont have much cash at the moment

if its not fixed soon will my speedometer just quit working ? how soon?

http://gm-stepper-motors.weebly.com/

if i did decide to try and do this myself would that be a good source? also are there any good guides or tutorials on this
and it is a 6 gauge right?

sorry lots of questions lol thanks guys

 

chevy SHOULD fix em for free if theyre known to be defective :/

 

Everything is "known to be defective" eventually. They couldn't make money if they fixed it all for free.

 

A shop will replace the whole cluster. Took mine back to the dealer under warranty and that's what they did.

 

well i dont have 500 dollars to pay them for something like this..how soon will it stop working?

im probably gonna just try to just do it myself then.