Nissan Repair: 98 Nissan Frontier Electrical, digital odometer, nissan frontier


Question
Starting at around 75,000 miles (I"m now at about 92K), the dashboard electrical components on my 98 Frontier began having intermittent problems.  When problem occurs, digital odometer reads all 9's or another bogus number, speedometer doesn't go above 10, tachometer wobbles between 0 and 1, and fuel and temp gauges go all the way to top. Is there a known solution to this issue?  What's my best bet to get it fixed as economically as possible, given my non-technical nature?  Thanks for any help you can provide.

Answer
Mike,

You have a couple of choices here.  The first is to take your instrument cluster out and look on the back.  There is a resistor that is going out and I think the internal shorting of this device is what is running everything nuts.  Te second is to source a cluster from a wrecking yard and replace the whole unit.