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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ehoe" data-source="post: 622" data-attributes="member: 141"><p>Been having this intermittent problem of the tacho (rpm) not working once in a blue moon especially if I drive over very bumpy roads. The tacho just goes dead but the rest of the gauges (i.e petrol, temp, speed) all still ok. Sometimes light banging on the dash brings the tacho back to life or simply just drive over another bump or something and wah lah its working again.So obviously its a loose connection somewhere. I know there are two connectors at the back of the instrument cluster, could these be loose or connectors don't have good contact?. or perhaps within the instrument cluster itself there are loose connections. Anyone face this problem before and have identified what is causing this lose connection?. I know each meter (i.e rpm, temp, petrol & speed) is inserted into the cluster circuitboard and the legs of the meter touches a set of metal contacts to get contact to the circuitboard. I'm worried over time this may also have loose connections so was just wondering if its ok to solder this to ensure better contacts between the legs of the meters and the circuitboard?. Hope my explanation is clear....</p></blockquote><p></p>