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Random loss of speedometer and rev counter

My 2003 Focus (manual 1.6) has recently developed a problem whereby randomly the speedometer, rev counter and temperature indicator will all go to zero, the odometer will blank out, and the engine management light comes on. A while later, they all come back on and the engine light goes out.

From a search on here I saw lots of posts about a "Vehicle Speed

Sensor" but this only seemed to be people saying their speedometer went to zero; if the other dials are being lost too, does that still indicate the speed sensor or could it be something else?

I took it to a garage but they couldn't figure out what the problem was ... apparently they plugged their computer in and it didn't show any fault codes.

Any ideas?

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you are correct, if it was the speed sensor all the other stuff would not quit with it. It sounds as if you simply have a bad connection. It likely will not be simple to find though.

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ShoeSalesman

when they fail do they fail at the same time? If so i would say you have an intermittent connection in you gauge cluster. Bad solder connections most likely

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fireater

Thanks -- it seems that was exactly the case. After a couple of failed attempts to repair the instrument cluster, the garage gave up and replaced it with a new one, and since then I've had no problems.

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