couper83

if you guys remember my tachometer and fuel and coolant temp gauges have stopped and now my speedometer has stopped
what is it this time?
please help
if you don't know i am only a senior in high school and about to graduate and everthing is happening to me at the wrong time

Supercoupe

under the hood right in front of the master cylinder. If your cable is bad you can usually recore it.
The electric problems you mentioned were covered in your other post.
Just chill, these problems you're having are nothing new to old school Audi's( or any old make for that matter),they can be remedied rather simply with a little effort on your part.

couper83

thanks man i feel better now
what year is your coupe 83?
that rear bumper looks better than mine

Whitjr

Take 'em free at the 2 piece junction box, and see if they rotate freely. Use a pair of needle-nose pliers to turn the inner cable. BE Gentle, these parts are 20 + years old, remember? Might be some rust in there, and you can spray some spray-lube in it to free it up.

If that doesn't work, you may need a new cable[s]. I can't stress enough: easy does it. When you take the cables free there, don't force it, just use firm pressure on those knurled fittings at the box Supercoupe mentioned.

The speedos are problematic on our cars. Lots of discussions about them... do a search on this and read-up.

Hang in there....

ScottRB

Be prepared to put up with some minor quirk and DON'T fix it. If you do, then something else will go wrong and will begin to drive you nuts!
Somehow the damn Germans found a way to put their stubborn personalities into the cars.

couper83

i just took off my speedo cable to the box and the piece inside bropke and then my dad told me to replace all my fuses and i just happened to put the 12 pnt connector on the back of the dash in correctly and all the way in and now eveything works and i can go to prom happy this weekend

thanks guys for all the good ideas and i figured out that it was the smallest possible thing