Sticky Dashboard Needles

[Great Uncle Kip]

Ok, so my C180 has the good old "sticky needle syndrome" the petrol guage and speedometer quite often take a while to start working, particularly bad in cold weather. Once they are working, if i stop, the accelerator needle sticks to the pin again, and so on.

This is starting to get quite infuriating, and i was wondering, is there any way to clean the needles and pins without removing the instrument panel unit?

 

[BlackC55]

What year?

 

[1nevster]

What year?

His is 1995 C180

 

[1nevster]

Ok, so my C180 has the good old "sticky needle syndrome" the petrol guage and speedometer quite often take a while to start working, particularly bad in cold weather. Once they are working, if i stop, the accelerator needle sticks to the pin again, and so on.

This is starting to get quite infuriating, and i was wondering, is there any way to clean the needles and pins without removing the instrument panel unit?

Have a look here too:- http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/electronics/84582-c280-1995-n-reg-speedo-rev-counter.html

 

[Dec]

any way to clean the needles and pins without removing the instrument panel unit?

Just read post number #9 to #15 here… http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/electronics/68187-speedo-issue-1995-c180-w202.html … the lazy mans guide to doing it. I don’t think it’s a good way of going about it as it messes up the appearance of your cluster but you have to hand it to this guy for doing it the easy way.

Dec