2001 Buick Park Avenue -- Gauge needle on wrong side of pin
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Fix Gas gauge and Coolant Temperature Gauge on a 2001 Buick Park Avenue. Sometimes when the battery is disconnected the needles for the gauges can travel clockwise all the way around and behind the pin for the gauge. They get "stuck" there and need to be moved back counter clockwise to their correct position.
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Great video 👌🏾👍🏾. It took me less than an hour to fix everything
Glad it helped
I've had this problem with my park avenue forever and I never knew how to fix it. Thank you so much
The same exact needles did that in my car. It happened when It had battery issues, when charging battery and then trying to start it, the needles went wacko. Thank you, for your awesome video. I'm going to go try and fix mine now.
I used very strong magnets and go the opposite direction! Good video
Another useful Buick Park Avenue tip especially so since they made the Park Avenue without much change for so many years. Mine's a 1999 and comes apart exactly as you described. While in there, it's a good opportunity to change the instrument illumination bulbs even before one or more burns out.
You need to get a good magnet. I just fixed mine. Took one minute. Have done this before when I have changed batteries. Don't take the dash apart. A commercial strong magnet works great.
Thanks!!...Same problem, when I pulled the battery, or put it back in???
I drilled little pilot holes by the gauge and stick a paper clip in there with a little bend on the end and pop it back over so I dont have to take the dash off because it happens quite frequently. So the paper clip will look like a 7 so i can hook under the guage and pull over the pin and saves so much time and the pilot hole is a 1/8 drill bit put masking tape and drill though it, you don’t even notice it i had my car now going on 23 yrs and 303204.00 miles on it and just changed the timing belt 1st one and 1st fuel pump change so far a starter a few batteries, oil pan, seal mass, airflow sensor, oxygen sensors, of course brakes to coil packs and the main module underneath the coil packs and that’s all thats ever been done and the fuel gauge is never work properly, so I’m hoping that this fixes it
This is way too much work. I just fixed this problem on my 2003 Park Avenue in literally three seconds using a $5 neodymium magnet from my local hardware store. No need to take all of this apart. When you say you haven’t had luck, were you using the correct type of magnet?
Yeah, it just wouldn't go so I had to take it apart and fix it.
@@CharlesAndCars I found sort of a new magnet trick. Sometimes the neodymium magnet alone won’t do it. It might jiggle the needle around a bit, but I had the issue happen again with my park avenue and the solution was to stack a few household magnet on top of the neodymium, repeat the steps, and it finally worked. So I guess too it’s the total power of the magnetic field.
you dont have to take any thing apart take a strong magnet and put it over the needle [you will see it grab it bring it around with the magnet thats how you reset it takes a strong magnet i have did it several times to my care
All you need is a strong magnet, it will move that stuff back
I've gone through the same prcess a few times with my fuel gage needle
My problem is i fill it up but only says a little over a quarter of a tank when it goes down to empty then i put five gallons in it and bring it back to aquarter of the tank..doesntyshow correct amount
So what do u think when its not showing right amount but does work
Most likely the sending unit.
So sending unit in the tank on pump..just replace pump and whole thing
You fix it? Are you sure the tank is actually getting full? If you have something bad somewhere along the EVAP system or something wrong with the vacuum to it, the pump will shut off early because the vapors are building up in the tank and unable to release quickly enough.
Fixed it finally 👍🏽
I experienced the same situation with my Buick. It was a low voltage issue this winter when trying to start the car due to the battery partially freezing. The gauges were spinning and bouncing around and clicking could be heard. I've been afraid to dig in to it, but after your video I will give it a try! Thanks again for your help. What did you use to clean the plastic window on the console that won't damage it?
Just used some fine car polish to clean it up.
It's so dumb we have to do this. No other car I've owned had its gauge needles spin around and require taking the dash apart. What was GM thinking?
Thank you for the tutorial. I'll have to keep this bookmarked because on top of this problem, the driver door won't open on my car and that's a bit of a problem to start step #1... but in that case we'll give the magnet option a try. Cheers, dood! :)
I’m a girl... don’t know if I want to be messing around with all that. Can’t I just poke a hole in the plastic and use a pointy tool to move the needle. I’m mean really it’s a 2004 Nissan. Great video thought
I don't know if a 2004 Nissan will work the same as far as resetting the needle on the gauge
I thought the same thing on my 2000 Buick Park Avenue. So, I drilled a small hole in the face of the panel, inserted a cake tester wire and flipped the pointer around, started the car and it works perfectly. Took me 30 seconds. Thanks for the video.
@@gregeck9947 Go to any auto parts store and buy a heavy duty magnet and place it on the plastic window of the gas gage, and work the needle around to the other side of the plastic pin. - WORKS GREAT ! I have done it many times, when your battery goes dead it causes it to flip the needle