Additional ifo itf this helps: All of the other dash guages work but when you start the car the other guages "come alive" but the speedometer needle stays "limp". Any help will GREATLY be appreciated. Michael Vin #2944 Ah, a classic DeLorean problem. Most likely you are in need of a new speedometer angle drive. Diagnosis is as follows: Raise front end of vehicle. Speedo is driven by the driver's side front wheel. Disconnect the upper speedo cable from the top of the lambda counter (bright yellow box in driver's side footwell). Have a friend spin the front wheel and see if you can see the square fitting in the lambda box spin where you removed the upper cable. It probably won't. If it does, your problem is either in the connection for the upper cable, the upper cable itself, or the speedo is actually broken in the dash (all of which are not common). if it doesn't spin, then disconnect the lower cable where it goes into the lambda counter. have someone spin the wheel - does the lower cable square fitting spin? probably not. but if it does, your gears are broken in the lambda counter (more likely then a problem with the upper cable, but i doubt it. if it doesn't, remove the front wheel and take off the plastic dust cap in the middle of the brake disc. carefully inspect the center of the cap and see if the hole where the angle drive cable goes into it is stripped out. it will be round if it is stripped, perfectly square if it is ok. it's probably rounded out. now look at the cable that sticks thru the wheel bearing. that is first drive cable into the angle drive. does it have a square tip? is the wire shredded? does the wire slide out of the drive? if the drive cable is trashed, it is not repairable and you need a new angle drive. you cannot replace just the cable. IF anything right here looks ok, disconnect where the lower cable goes into the angle drive. spin the wheel and see if the cable in the angle drive spins. i doubt it. if not, you need a new angle drive. what happens is the angle drive fails due to lack of lubrication or the gears inside it break. when that happens, the cable stalls in the wheel hub so the wheel keeps turning but the wire doesn't. this strips out the plastic cap and makes it round, damages the square tip of the wire, and sometimes pulls the wire out of the angle drive. if you find that any of these parts are bad, you must purchase the appropriate parts. if i were you, and the angle drive OR dust cap are found to be damaged, i would order BOTH parts to replace because they are a weak part of the car. i would recommend getting PJ Grady's hardcore series angle drive with stainless gears and molybdenom grease. comes with a warranty too! Andy Soma576@xxxx 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 VIN#11596 Fargo, ND 58102 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]