My odometer where the miles and trip miles is going in and out. The dealership says it is not a fuse and says i need to replace the whole thing. Quoted me $715 for the part, and $240 for labor. Does any out there have a cheaper option? PLease help me out if you can, thanks

 

You can find them on Ebay all day for around $100..

 

what do i search for because i couldn't find any?

 

G35 speedometer/cluster..

 

Yea, I think the odometer is stored in the cluster :O

 

Where is the fuse for the odometer located?

 

Cabin Fuse Block - J/B fuses 6, 19, and 14 for the combination meter.

It gets the vehicle speed data via CANBUS from the VDC/ABS/TCS computer which is powered from the engine bay IPDM fuse 82

 

I have a problem with my odometer/tripmeter section of my combo meter. I wonder if it's the same thing as the original poster. Mine is SUPER dim as if the backlight or whatever makes the segment data brightly visible is dead. The data is there if you look closely so the odometer and tripmeter data is continuing to accumulate and be reported correctly but the display of that information in that section of the combo meter has a problem and is just BARELY visible. I figure it's another flaky resistor or something in the combo meter that needs to be touched up. I had the bad fuel gauge problem a couple years ago and took it out and touched up those resistors and fixed that problem. I suspect this is something similar. I doubt my problem is a fuse problem but I haven't really checked them. The whole combo meter works except for that one small section and it's still KINDA working.

mhill25, can you still see anything in the odometer section when it goes out? Or is it completely out as if the power is shut off?

 

Probably one of the LED's burned out, fortunately that's a pretty straightforward solder job.

Does it sort of come back to life if you adjust the instrument cluster backlight brightness?

 

No mine doesn't come back to life when adjusting brightness. Everything disappears completely when lowering it to min and then it goes back to what my "normal" is now when adjusting to full brightness where the odometer is barely visible. I think the only odometer backlight I get now is a tiny bit of bleed from the other instrument backlights. So it definitely seems like my backlight led for just the odometer section is out. Not sure how to figure out which one is the backlight for the odometer when (if) I take it out. I may just leave it because it doesn't stop anything from working like manual mode or make me run out of gas like when the fuel gauge stops working.

 

There are 6 LEDs behind the odometer LCD screen that light it up. Disregard the small electrical wire. I was just experimenting. But sometimes a new LED wont fix it because the issue will be a bad circuit on the board itself

 

yeah if there are 6 leds and all of them are out it’s definitely some other single point they all have in common. Did you power yours outside the car? Wondering how hard that would be to figure out because I’d prefer to know it was working before putting it back in. And not have to trial and error 10 times to finally find the spot that fixes it.

oh I guess the leds could be in series so it could be one crap connection on any one of them. Or one bad one in the series string like your Christmas tree lights.