93 Geo Prizm (Toyota Corolla) acting speedometer

If it's a mechanical speedometer, check to see if it's catching. We had an old speedometer in our Corvair do almost exactly the same thing.

Charles of Kankakee

I am having this exact same problem (either 0 or 65 showing on speedometer) on my 93 prizm. how do i check to see if it is catching? i would love some help with this!

thanks, Chris

Charles @ Kankakee wrote:

I had a 92 Tercel that done this. It gets much worse in colder weather. Mine would emit a horrendous buzzing noise at the critical point of 45mph. I could hardly hear the radio. Apparently there is a set of gears or teeth somewhere on the cable behind the instrument cluster that requires lubrication, otherwise it will "catch" at about 45mph for some reason. The shop I took the tercel to told me this and they lubricated the problem but this was only a temporary fix. They had to take the instrument cluster out to get to it I beleive, I'm not sure. The more permanent fix of course would be to replace the part(s). Sorry I don't know that much about it, I'm only going by what the guy told me.