OT-Chrysler minivan

About 4 days ago my wife reset the odometer back to 0 by pushing the button with the switch on but the motor off. Both the speedometer and the tach both turned clockwise until they hit the peg by zero but they were on the back side so that when we started the motor neither one would work as they were against the peg. I took it to a former Chrysler mechanic ( They got closed out in 2009) and he hooked up his computer thinking that we could reset everything back to zero. It just didn't happen to work like we hoped. About 5 years ago my mother had the same thing happen to her gas gauge on her 1997 park avenue. At the time I heated up a small nail until it was hot enough to melt a small hole through the plastic cover. I used a very small wire and through this little hole I was able to spin the gas gauge back around until it was in the correct location. In the last 5 years , we have had to do it 3 or 4 more times. It works fine then. Last week I melted 2 holes through the face of my 2001 chrysler and did the same thing. For the last 3 days it has been working fine. I melt the holes right in the middle where the needle pivots, it doesn't show very much. I told my wife the next time she resets the odometer to have the motor running, if that does happen to make a difference. Have any of you had this problem before? I could have done the same thing by taking the face off but I didn't know how much trouble that was going to be.

We have a '97 Intrepid that all guages will quit working while driving and if we are going over 60 MPH [straight up on the needle] the needle will fall down the shortest way so when they start working again that leaves the needle on the bottom side of the peg at "0". I keep a small wire in the console and can get it into the hole for the trip reset and fish the needle around the peg so it will work again. Been a very good car except the electrical gremlins that have plagued it.

it happened to me! it seems to me it happened when i pushed the reset and my finger slipped off and i pushed it again. I fixed it by doing the same thing that caused it the first time.
check a mini van forum if that doesn't work. it all happened so fast and the fix musta been ez as i don't remember having much trouble doing it.

Buick garage uses a magnet to spin those fuel gauges back.

I see a few of these every year. mine included. The speedo is real easy to remove on these and face plate only has couple screws. Flip needle over peg and good to go . Maybe not as quick as hot nail trick though