[duckcanuck]

Hi folks. My 2003 5-speed Zetec SE wagon has a weird intermittent problem.

The symptoms have been building up over several weeks. Here is the list:

- very intermittent misfire/lack of power
- sometimes during the misfire, the speedo will jump up from zero to 80 kph or more
- on starting, when I release the key from crank to run position, the speedo will flick up for an instant.
- yesterday, the entire instrument cluster died while driving (speedo, tach, fuel and temp); everything else worked normally; no misfire.
- shutting off and restarting did not fix that problem yesterday
- today when I turned the key to "ON" all the instruments pegged themselves for a second or two, then returned to zero or normal reading (fuel).
- the car started fine and all the instruments are working now.
- jiggling the key does not change anything, whether the car currently has or does not have a problem.

I have no idea where to begin, so I thought I would ask this group to see if anyone has seen similar things.

Thanks for any help,

Bob the Duck Canuck