The 2GN is just about done its ‘daily driving‘ duties. The battery is original to the car and I thought I could hold off replacing it – and instead concentrate on the future Optima Red Top in the trunk for rally duty.
It finally gave up and died, leaving Christine stranded at the library. She managed to find a nice by-stander to give her a jump-start. I have no idea what they did wrong, but somehow – the tachometer and speedometer needles went too far, swung completely around, and got stuck on the other side of the pin. As some of you know the Neon gauge cluster does the ‘defi’ calibration upon startup: Pause at zero, fifty percent, one hundred percent, and then back to zero. The needles twitched and stayed at zero, it wasn’t until Christine got home did she realize that the gauges were messed up. “Why are the needles in the 2GN on the wrong side of the pin?” “WHAT?!” was really all one could say.
I guess there’s a way you can hold down the trip to reset it, but this didn’t work.
What DID work, was taking the gauge cluster out of the car and slowly rotating it 360 degrees clockwise. It was rather comical. 🙂
The gauges now work, battery is trickle charging, and pretty soon Christine’s new car will arrive and the 2GN project will really begin.
Did you reverse the contacts in the turn signal stalk too? Perhaps the shifter linkages could be altered and clutch/throttle pedals swapped for a true *goofy foot* driving experience.
LOL. That is Chrysler quality for ya…
By the way, I thought she was driving the Fit…
Our Tach does that on our 1st Gen, some goofball clipped the max RPM Pin that stops the needle on the cluster. Now randomly the tach will flip over and try to run backwards >< I have found a good sudden high Rev fixes it. A needle or a Pin in the gauge passed redline might keep it from happening again.
p.s. /cheers Gents 🙂