Every now and then, a vehicle arrives in the shop with a broken odometer display. The modern automobile uses a digital display that for whatever reason will sometimes stop working. The fix for this is to remove the instrument cluster and send it to a place that rebuilds them. We use a place near Atlanta. I removed the cluster from this vehicle and sent it off for repair.

Unfortunately, things can happen during the shipping process.

When I got this cluster back, I found one of the tabs that holds the instrument cluster to the dash broken.

This isn't really a problem. There are four tabs that hold the cluster in place. Only having three will still get the job done.

The important thing was that the odometer display was repaired and working again. I reinstalled it and all was well.