Speedometer Needle Stuck

[RippSpeed]

Originally Posted by NoMoGMPG

Every GM dealership knows about this condition. Just take it in and tell them the speedo needle is sticking and depending on what your mileage is, it will be some sort of warranty coverage. It could be a 50-50, or part only and you pay labor, or if you have an extended warrant it will only cost your deductible.

the problem is my extended warranty requires the dealership to prove that the item that needs to be replaced is not working properly. On the other hand I dont have any deductible... I have full coverage

[RCKSTR]

My 03 did the same thing a couple times. I found everytime I shut it off the needle would drop a little bit. I just started it and shut it off about 30 times untill it went back to 0, been working fine since.

[PaHumBug]

My speedo only stuck when it was below 20 degrees or so. When it warmed up or if I parked in the garage for a while and let it thaw it fixed itself. Everytime I stop and go, the speedo would raise a few mph's, and everytime I shut the engine off it would drop a few mph's. Never fixed it, just traded it in...

[brad_p]

Yo jigga fresh gangsta g, if you did a lil resurch ya would fin dat dem hummas h duece is completely differnt than a hoe in ervy way. But your to much of a ignorant ebonic speaking....... well you get the picture.

[HummerJim]

Talking with a service guy at the Hummer dealership this week, he told me the '06 and later H2s have an improved solid state circuitry instrument cluster that is supposed to alleviate the stuck and dancing needles problem. The '06 and '07 units can be found on Ebay pretty reasonably sometimes!

[mdoyle]

The needles in these clusters are driven by tiny servo motors, once they go bad no amount of key cycling is going to fix them- they have to be replaced.

I bought a couple off eBay for around $12 bucks and did the repair myself. The trickiest part for most is going to be desoldering the old motors and soldering in the new ones. It's not impossible and you can pick up the tools at Radio Shack.

Even though I marked the needle positions before disassembling the cluster, I used a GPS on the highway to set the speedo needle exactly. The Federalies around here are sticklers

If you can get warranty coverage, do it; but if they try to gig you for a couple hundred or worse then grab the motors off eBay (they come with good instructions) and fix it yourself.

[Ex0tica]

Hi all found a guy on eBay that cleans, replaces all bulbs and servos for $170. Has done over 4000 of em with 100% record. Thinkin of trying him out.