I've got a 2004 Chevy Cavalier, 2.2 L, 5 sp., 71,000 miles. It started out with my speedometer. Every once in a while it would just stop working. Trip odometer would still roll along correctly, 1/10th of a mile every 6 seconds or so at 60. After shutting the car off and leaving it sit for a while it would work fine. No big deal, figured it was a loose wire or something. Then it started doing it more often. Then instead of it reading zero, at a stop it would read 45 mph. as you accelerated, 3rd gear 1500 rpm's was reading speed at 95 mph! Now I like my car but I know it's not that fast. Coolant temp. gauge started reading 250 deg. when you first started the car and would just stay pegged. Now at an idle the tachometer is reading 0 rpm's so I can't even trust sync'ing my tach and gear with speed (2000 rpm's 5th gear was 55, 2500 was 70 ish and 3000 was 80 ish). I have never pulled the gauge cluster out of the car and the only modifications I've made are new door and deck speakers and a stock GM CD player. The car is showing no codes. Has anybody had issues like this before? Is this common? Are there any TSB's relating to a problem like this? Any info you could give me would be helpful at this juncture. Thanks.

John

Can anybody help me with this? Anyone ever ran into this before?

Sounds like the cluster is bad. Get a new one.

That's what I was thinking after reading some other threads on various gauge peoblems. I guess mine just rolled them allinto one. I've got a bid in now on eBay for one. I'll see if that helps.