I'm having a weird problem. As you can probably tell my tachs not working. This might be kind of long so I suggest that you only read this if you might have a solution or if you have or have had the same problem. Just to save you from wasting your own time.

OK, here it goes. My tach isnt working most of the time. It works for about 3 minutes once a week, if that. But its not just staying at 0 or bouncing around or anything. The needle will start around 0rpm and slowly move around the dial, very slowly. On my 45 minute trip to school it will start around 0 and by the time I get to school it will be around 7-8000rpm. Then when I shut the car off it will drop back down like it should. If I immediately turn it back on it will go to where it left off. If it sits for a while it will be back at 0 when I start it. I checked to make sure its plugged in. I'm getting no sensor codes, except a KS code, but no CEL. So I'm lost. I asked the parts manager at a dealer and he said he'd never seen that before, and this guys always been real helpful even though I never let them touch my cars. So could it be the tach? Or what sensor should I look for. I've never had a distributerless car so I'm not sure where a sensor would be for the tach. If its just the tach itself then I can replace that, just hate to buy one and it not be the problem. I appreciate any response.

 

Your tach is shot. You have pretty much one option. Go on Car-parts.com and do a search around. If your gauges are white, it will be a bit more money than the black face one. Get a full gauge set, regardless of the milage but try and find lowest as possible so you know the guage is newer. Take the gauge apart, 3 or 4 screws on the back, 3 to 4 screws on your tach, and swtich tachs with yours. start up the car and I garentee it will be 100% perfect. It happend to me last winter. You will also have a nice set of gauges if anything else goes out. For exaple fuel, temp

-matt

 

I knew you had a 95 when reading your post. 95 nissans have ALL KINDS of tach problems. It was a bad year for the tachometer. You're like the 10th one I heard of. Replace the tach. Go to www.pinnaclenissan.com. You can buy a used one but then you'll keep having the problem over and over again. Nissan knows there's a problem with the 95 tachs which was obviously corrected in later models.

 

I guess I was a lucky one.

 

Just wait and see. 95 Tachometers

 

10 years and 233k.. I think if it broke now, it has served its course and I will say it didn't suck.

 

could a tach from a 96 work. I know there are some differences in the 97-99. Luckily mine are black. Thanks for the help.

 

mine is a 1996 and does that since like... one week after i bought the car, almost 3 years ago. I bought a used tach off a member here, i am just waiting for the weather to be a bit less cold up here to install it hehehe

 

TACHOMETER, Maxima, SE, SL 95-96 $477.60 $357.48


i dont care about it that deeply.

 

95 Nissans had horrible tachometers but the years after didnt. Get an instrument cluster from a junkyard for 60 bucks and swap out the tach. You'll be good as new.

 

Well I have a 96 and it does the same thing. I was hoping the signal wire was grounding itself out. I guess not. Also just to let you know the ECM supplies the signal to the tach. I looked it up because I was wondering where the signal came from also.

 

what if the tach doesnt work at all...nothing no movement except when i hit it and it bounces i lil.....is that a bad tach also or did it come unpluged...if unpluged then were is the plug..

i did a 5spd swap and the tach worked fine when i was done but now it all of a sudden stoped working

 

I have a '96 and my tach does the same thing. It works for a few minutes, and then nothing. It doesn't even go anywhere. Sometimes it jumps around too. It has a real mind of it's own most of the time. I played with the circuit board, resoldered everything, messed with the variable resistor, but still nothing.