Forgot your password? When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. It only ticks while driving, and gets noticeably faster as speed increases. My guess is that this is a speedo cable issue considering that this has been swapped for a longer unit. I'm not sure which speedo cable was used IE, Bavaria, automatic, etc but i can see this getting annoying fast.
Do any of you have this issue? Have any of you fixed this? Is there a lubrication I can try? It's a very prominent ticking noise and it actually drowns out the standard ticking when the turn signal blinker is engaged.
Not sure if lube will help but I once saw Ben T's father, in a parking lot in Colorado , show a fellow how to lube his cable. Took a piece of thin cardboard, made a funnel out of it and after removing the speedo cable from the dash cluster, ran light machine oil down the cable using the funnel. If you lube the cable, suggest using speedometer cable lube vs "light machine oil.
Graphite won't gum up, attract dirt and get viscous in cold weather like oil. If you can't find speedo cable lube at your local auto parts store, either try a motorcycle shop or get some lock cylinder lube "LockEze" is a brand.
The above presumes you didn't have the ticking sound before changing trannys and speedo cables Or it could be your odometer gear getting ready to die, mine clicked really loud before the speedo went wonky and the odo stopped working.
