Gauges Move after car is off

Tiny
MIK71670
  • MEMBER
  • 2001 GMC JIMMY
  • 157,000 MILES
After about 30 seconds of turning car off, a few gauges will start to go back up. It does it with the key in or out, I was told it could be the ignition switch. I put a video of it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCfAY4Os-0. any thoughts
Saturday, July 27th, 2013 AT 7:34 PM

1 Reply

Tiny
CARADIODOC
  • MECHANIC
  • 33,871 POSTS
This happens on a lot of GM vehicles but no one notices because they're already out of the car. I suspect it is due to the counterweights on the pointers. The gauges haven't had spring-loaded pointers for many years. Instead, they simply sit on a magnet that is pulsed to various positions with varying voltages and polarities on four coils of wire. There's nothing to hold the pointers anywhere when power is turned off. All you need to be concerned with is the pointers go back to their proper positions when you turn the ignition switch back on. Tapping on the face of the gauge cluster will often make the pointers move too.
Was this
answer
helpful?
Yes
No
-1
Saturday, July 27th, 2013 AT 8:19 PM

Please login or register to post a reply.

Sponsored links