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  • Tripometer stopped working... Any Ideas

    The trip thing on my 1996 Camaro RS stopped rotating when it hit 9.9 miles, now it doesn't even turn at all. It is stuck on 000.0

    Any ideas how to fix this? Anyone else have the same problem?

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    Re: Tripometer stopped working... Any Ideas

    I had a similar problem with another car. A couple of months after buying it, the ODO and trip stopped working. I figured the used car dealership rolled back my Odo before I bought the car and they didn`t put the mechanism back together properly. Anyway...it bothered the hell out of me for about 6 months because it was constantly ticking...one day on the highway the ticking drove me so insane that I started smacking the dash as hard as I could and at the same time i pushed in the trip button. I managed to get whatever wasn`t working back on track and now both the ODO and the trip are working again...The only problem is now I have no clue what the real mileage is on the car. Probably about 10k more than it reads, not to mention how many more if the dealership rolled back the clock.
    My advice is to smack your dash and push the trip button at the same time while you`re driving. I must have smacked it for like 5 minutes before I got it so if you`re parked you`ll never know if what you`re doing is working. Good luck with that!

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      Re: Tripometer stopped working... Any Ideas

      2 things... i dunno bout the rolling odo's but i know with the electric ones the PCM stores the milage so you might find out that way. the other thing... you're lucky... nothing ever goes good for me when i start bashing things...
      2000 3.8L Camaro A4 Pewter Y87<br />K&N Filter, SLP Ram Air kit, Eibach Pro Kit, Flowmaster 80 series, Silverstars, NGK plugs and MSD Super Conductor Wires, Electric Water Pump

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