Your car once had a rock-steady speedometer needle, but now it’s wandering a bit — or a lot. Maybe it’s not indicating any speed or it’s showing 60 mph and you know that can’t be right. “An easy way ...

Knowing your driving speed is extremely important for long drives, a trip to the local market, or just a short weekend getaway. Vehicles have various safety features loaded into them, but one of the ...

In the May issue, we addressed classic Mustang instrumentation from an electrical system standpoint-temperature, fuel, and oil pressure gauges along with ammeters. But what about the nuts and bolts of ...

[Ah2002] didn’t like the shaky needle in his car’s speedometer so he replaced it with a ring of LEDs. The old speedometer had a cable which rotated along with the gearbox for mechanical speed ...

Do you even look to see if the speedometer works when you buy an old car? When we shop for something built in the 1960s or 1970s, we assume the speedo needle winged off into the night or the cable is ...

Lots of people get in touch with CarsGuide to complain about the accuracy of their car’s speedometer. When you drive an old HiLux ute, as I do, you often wonder just how far from the mark the ...

From '65-'93, Mustang speedometers were cable-driven mechanical instruments that worked on the eddy current principal-a magnet whirling around inside a shell attached to an indicator needle. The ...