Question for Damon

[Madcowranch]

I noticed you said you were a GM mechanic before Ford. My work truck is an '03 Chevy 3/4 ton and lately the speedometer becomes lazy (for lack of a better word) after driving a while. For example it'll show I'm doing 30 when I'm really doing 60, but it's always accurate when I first start driving.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Hope it's OK to ask a non-Raptor question.

 

[pirate air]

cluster

 

[Madcowranch]

what's cluster?

 

[Madcowranch]

Oh and also would this throw off my odometer accuracy?

 

[pirate air]

Your instrument gage cluster. I replaced a lot of those clusters assembly's for similar problems; still do even though I don't work for a GM shop anymore. It's common for any of the gages in the cluster to act erratic in that era of GM trucks/suvs. BUT, there's a lot it could be, this is just the first thing that comes to mind without actually looking at it.

 

[pirate air]

Oh and also would this throw off my odometer accuracy?

Depends were the problem's originating from. If anything down the line before the cluster is receiving bad wheel speed data then it can affect both speedo and odometer. If its the common problem I mentioned above, where its a faulty speedo stepper motor, then no, it shouldn't affect odo.

 

[Shaggy]

This is sounding more like, take it to your local shop to check it out, is that right pirate?

 

[pirate air]

This is sounding more like, take it to your local shop to check it out, is that right pirate?

Pretty much.

 

[BIRDMAN]

i just remember the massive recall GM had on their speedometers for 03-05 trucks. it didn't affect the odometer unless the entire gauge cluster failed in those cases.

 

[BIRDMAN]

This is sounding more like, take it to your local shop to check it out, is that right pirate?

well if he wanted to do that then why are we here