I have a unique problem with my 1999 Silverado 4x4. The truck has over 146,000 miles, and the odometer/mileage indicator has been working intermittently for quite some time. Now, for the past few months, it is totally blank. The counter is still working, but I cannot see how many miles the truck has on it. This makes scheduling oil changes a bit difficult! Anyone else hear of such a problem?

 

Yes,it needs a cluster...maybe 275 bucks

 

Well, I have good news to share, and YES, this is worth reading entirely. The suggestion came up to change out the instrument cluster; so I compared repair shops on the iternet (repairs started at $129.00 + shipping) and then I found an instrument cluster on E-bay for $70. I purchased the cluster and changed it out in less than 10 minutes. This is one of the easiest tasks I ever performed on any vehicle. Here's the cool part: My Silveradohad over 142,000 miles on it before the odometer quit working (a year ago). The new cluster kept the OLD mileage from whatever vehicle it came out of. The mileage is not kept in the vehicles computer like some suggest; instead, the mileage chaged to 131,000!!! Since my title says 142,000 miles, it looks like I'll be keeping the truck around for at least the next 9,000 miles. I do like happy endings.

 

kewl...however...you can't do that on 03 and newr trucks...they must be programmed