Q: Turn light indicators and speedometer malfunctioning

asked by on August 15, 2016

My SUV has an instrument cluster and the turn light indicators and also the speedometer are not working. This is an intermittent problem; sometimes they do work while I am driving my vehicle. When they do not work, I use the tachometer to tell me the speed that I’m going. Do you think the problem with the light indicators and the speedometer is a connection issue or a computer problem? Thanks.

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