My friend's 2001 Yukon seedo is stuck at maximum speed! what do u think its wrong??

[BlackDenali]

Hi,

A friend of mine asked my help to diagnose his problem, and I couldn't think of a better place to ask than this forum. He got a 2001 Yukon and all of a sudden his speedometer stuck on maximum reading (well, more than maximum, I think its almost 330 degrees angle from the 0 MPH point. He went to the dealer's work shop and they told him he got to replace the whole cluster plus some other things which will cost him $2000+!! thats a real big money for such a small problem, isn't it? .. What do you think the problem is? Any one went through the same thing before?

 

[Hoebag03]

factory recall, common problem, they should fix it for free if you can find the recall info

 

[Rollin Thunder]

he has been leaning on the pedel a bit to hard latly :smilielol:

so what hoebag said.

 

[41racing]

There are places that can fix/rebuild them for way way less.

 

[bamachevy89]

Sounds like somebody has a lead foot :lol: . The most I've ever done in my Tahoe is 108 and I swear I had no idea I was going that fast. If any of you have driven on the Florida Turnpike you know traffic runs 85-90 easy and I just let it get away from me going down to the Keys, I guess :wow:. To tell you the truth, I have no idea why I drove to Key Largo in the first place, it would have been cheaper and a whole lot less time consuming just to fly! These things get going pretty good for such big trucks, I got a "warning" ticket a couple weeks ago going 20 over despite this post, I usually go the speed limit!

I've had my cluster replaced twice already on my '04, one time the gears stopped showing up and the last time the tachometer was making a clicking noise when it hit the 2000 mark. Both were replaced for free.

 

[MadMedwyn]

Yes it's a factory recall. It's a shame it's just now happening for you BlackDenali because the local dealer told me that I could bring it by and have it done for free as long as it had less than 70k miles on it. I got mine done two weeks ago and had 64k miles. :eek2:

 

[BlackDenali]

Thanks guys for the responses :thumbs:

I told him about the factory recall but he said that his truck is out of warrranty already and the dealer asked a huge amount of money to replace the whole cluster. I've also read else where that its a common problem with the servo motor and we could just replace it and its available on ebay for $10 each, is that true?

 

[jey_]

Here's another thread on the issue:
http://www.tahoeforum.com/showthread.php?t=155

They extended our warranty to 7 years/70k miles for the cluster, might want to check on the recall even though you're out of normal warranty.

 

[BlackDenali]

Thanks Guys! .. We will try to change the speedo servo motor and see if that will fix the problem.