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Old Jun 25, 2024 | 10:21 AM
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Electric speedo odometer/trip meter not working

I've searched and have found a lot of information on the mechanical speedo but I have the electronic VSS one. Not the digital dash. My odometer and Trip meter stopped working but the speedometer works fine. Any solutions for this one?
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Old Jun 25, 2024 | 10:39 AM
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Re: Electric speedo odometer/trip meter not working

Think I found the problem. There appears to be an electric motor that drives the gear set that turns the odometer. Looks like one of the gears has broken teeth.
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Old Jun 25, 2024 | 02:54 PM
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Re: Electric speedo odometer/trip meter not working

This may or not be what you need, I post it to give you a glimmer of hope that there may well be replacements for those gears if ya get lucky in your search.....

https://www.shapeways.com/product/KA...googleshopping
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Old Jun 25, 2024 | 03:06 PM
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Re: Electric speedo odometer/trip meter not working

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This may or not be what you need, I post it to give you a glimmer of hope that there may well be replacements for those gears if ya get lucky in your search.....

https://www.shapeways.com/product/KA...googleshopping
Thanks! I'll check that out. Great find.
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Old Jun 25, 2024 | 10:48 PM
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Re: Electric speedo odometer/trip meter not working

I was aiming to reply earlier. I got busy and caught up with things today and sweating ***** outside fried my brain and I forgot to get back to your thread. My friend and I have run into this same problem before with our Firebirds. There is a company that makes a kit to fix this with instructions. The gears in this kit are real injection molded gears not 3D printed. Works like a charm to fix the issue a little bit delicate to do.

EDIT: Here it is.

Odometer Gears - Firebird Odometer Gear Kit

Also there are a ton on threads on here about this problem on Firebirds with detailed pictures and instructions.

Firebird Odometer - Broken, but is there a fix?

OMG I just noticed you are in Canada. I guess your Firebird has Metric gauges. If so the Kilometer version of this gear kit isn't ready yet.

Available Soon
Estimated Date: 07/31/2024

Last edited by Airwolfe; Jun 25, 2024 at 11:14 PM.
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Old Jun 26, 2024 | 06:13 AM
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Re: Electric speedo odometer/trip meter not working

Originally Posted by Airwolfe
I was aiming to reply earlier. I got busy and caught up with things today and sweating ***** outside fried my brain and I forgot to get back to your thread. My friend and I have run into this same problem before with our Firebirds. There is a company that makes a kit to fix this with instructions. The gears in this kit are real injection molded gears not 3D printed. Works like a charm to fix the issue a little bit delicate to do.

EDIT: Here it is.

Odometer Gears - Firebird Odometer Gear Kit

Also there are a ton on threads on here about this problem on Firebirds with detailed pictures and instructions.

Firebird Odometer - Broken, but is there a fix?

OMG I just noticed you are in Canada. I guess your Firebird has Metric gauges. If so the Kilometer version of this gear kit isn't ready yet.

Available Soon
Estimated Date: 07/31/2024
Amazing info, thank you! I don't understand why the U.S version wouldn't work in the metric car. I have a 140mph speedometer. It's just the smaller numbers on the scale. in kilometers that's 220, which has 140 right below it.
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Old Jun 26, 2024 | 07:18 AM
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Re: Electric speedo odometer/trip meter not working

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Amazing info, thank you! I don't understand why the U.S version wouldn't work in the metric car. I have a 140mph speedometer. It's just the smaller numbers on the scale. in kilometers that's 220, which has 140 right below it.
Never mind. Caught my mistake. The odometer will count differently.
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