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Posted on Aug 11, 2009

My Gas Gauge worked when it wanted to now it went all the way around and points down. My Temp guage was fine. It started showing over 260 yesterday. Now it is pointing at to 10 mpg. Starting today my speedometer at a complete stop reads 15 mpg. My digital Odometer is mising the second & forth number.

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