OK basically my tachometer in my 95 maxima (which I just got) has been going crazy, sometimes it works, and sometimes it just slowly (like over a period of an hour) makes its way up to 8000, passes it, then just sticks. I'm thinking its as simple as a loose connection somewhere but I'm not 100% sure.

I looked around the howtos and they say how to take the gauges out, but before I started doing that I wanted to know if there are wires I should trace leading somewhere to check for a short?

Thanks,
Josh

 

Before you take anything apart, I would have your alternator and battery checked. That happened to me on my old Honda Accord and it was the alternator going bad which in turn drained my battery. I am willing to bet it is your alternator.

Please let us know what you find out. I hope this helped.

 

Mine does the same thing. It's annoying but not enough for me to fix it. Just be glad the engine isn't doing as the tach says.

 

I'm pretty sure its not the alternator, because it was replaced about a year ago, and this started about 2 years ago.

It's just really annoying, and I just got this 95 (selling my 91 maxima) and I use the tachometer a lot when driving because I usually have the radio pretty loud.

 

95 tachometers were junk. I have had so many 95 altimas come in to my friends shop with tach problems.

Buy a new tachometer. There's nothing to fix inside

 

time to buy a 6 inch multi colored tach