Thread: speedo making squeaking / ticking / tapping sounds

Biggest problem area on the speedo on early Rangies is the right-angle drive that connects the cable to the speedo itself. Stretching the memory way back to my first Rangie, but sounds familiar.

Mine does it when going over 80km or slower than 20km...

It's annoying, but I just put up with it..
Loud music.

MIne has been doing it for years and always worse on a cold morning.
I haven't bothered with a fix as it tends to go away when the car warms up.
My speedo also is eratic and I tend to rely on my tacho and gearing to determine my speed not to mention that the flourecent paint on the speedo needle has gone so at night I can't read the speedo anyway.
I will get around to fixing that..but ..there are always other things to fix

Ok good I thought I was the only one lazy enough to put up with it.
but yeh cold mornings are the worst and it goes away after a while, its more the passengers that are less patient with it.

Don't be confused, laziness has nothing to do with maintaining the unique characteristics of the old classic....its like the back tailgate won't open and the passenger window won't go down.....again unique characteristics that define its personality. How many others do you know that can state their car's speedo actually communicates to you that's its bloody cold early in the morning in Winter.... incredible engineering.

sounds like the cable on its way out to me.