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pretty badTypical Repair Cost:
no data
Average Mileage:
68,667 miles
Total Complaints:
3 complaints
Most common solutions:
- not sure (3 reports)
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2008Feb 01
Sunfire V4
- Manual transmission
- 39,000 miles
I bought my Sunfire in April of 2005 brand new; it only had 33 miles on it at the time. The car's been great up until earlier this year, when my speedometer started malfunctioning. At first it was intermittent, then about August of this year it stopped working completely. (For those of you who may be curious, I've lately been driving by estimating my speed based on the tach and what gear I happen to be in.) Lately, my tach is beginning to act up as well. When I say "act up," I mean: not budging above zero at certain times; or staying well above the "3" mark no matter what gear I'm in and how fast I'm going. I notice that sometimes when I start my car in the morning, the tach needle will move up to a certain point and stay there the whole time I'm driving. This is the exact same thing that my speedometer did before it went bad.
When I called the service department, the mechanic told me that he'd seen this before in GMC truck gauges, but he's never heard of it in a Sunfire before. Anyone out there with any clue whatsoever as to what's going on with my car?
2007Oct 25
(reported on)Sunfire
- Automatic transmission
- 97,000 miles
well it seems that my tachometer, temp and speed have went on the blink. I noticed it a few weeks back with just my speedometer. Then when I shut off the car, turned it back on it would sort of reset itself. As time went on it spread to the temp and today the tach.
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2009Mar 02
Sunfire 4 cyl
I have had several problems with my Sunfire's gauges; first it was just the temperature gauge, then the tachometer, followed by the speedometer and finally the gas gauge. This has been a real pain!
tjc1434
Greenville, SC, USA
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