Digital odometer magically appears
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Digital odometer magically appears
Once in a while, my digital odometer will be blank at startup, and then it will magically appear a short time later. Is there a short somewhere or something? Is this something that could be a sign that it's going to fail?
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Not a short, most likely a bad solder joint. There are several posts on here concerning the fix process. Involves removing the instrument cluster(a long afternoon project). Do not let a dealership talk you into a new instrument cluster (that is the FORD fix)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey ProjectSHO...is that attitude REALLY neccessary? I've been coming to this site for years, and you are the absolute first to make it seem like I was breaking a law or something by posting something that is in the stickies.....shoot me.
Steve, thank you for the link. Very informative. But not something I really want to tackle. After looking the dash over, it appears to be more troublesome than I care to dig into on a cold evening after work. But I do appreciate the direct link.
Steve, thank you for the link. Very informative. But not something I really want to tackle. After looking the dash over, it appears to be more troublesome than I care to dig into on a cold evening after work. But I do appreciate the direct link.
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take your time, plan on 4 hours. do it on a saturday. its not difficult as it looks. if you dont solder, get a TV repair guy or someone like that, take the circuit board to him.---- i actually did it in a little over 2 hours.
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Originally Posted by wresleu
Hey ProjectSHO...is that attitude REALLY neccessary? I've been coming to this site for years, and you are the absolute first to make it seem like I was breaking a law or something by posting something that is in the stickies.....shoot me.
Steve, thank you for the link. Very informative. But not something I really want to tackle. After looking the dash over, it appears to be more troublesome than I care to dig into on a cold evening after work. But I do appreciate the direct link.
Steve, thank you for the link. Very informative. But not something I really want to tackle. After looking the dash over, it appears to be more troublesome than I care to dig into on a cold evening after work. But I do appreciate the direct link.
It was a brief directive on where to find the answer to your question, not an attitude (unlike your response).
If you can't handle information presented without sugar-coating, grow up.
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Yeah Steve I suppose you are right I just may try and tackle it this weekend. I'm not fearful of the soldering aspect...but rather the not getting everything back together right.
ProjectSHO.......Grow up????? I'm 36 years old, 5'10 and 210#'s....I sure hope I don't grow up anymore. Go back and reread your post...if that's not attitude I don't know what is. Get over yourself man. These forums are for helping people not berating them.
ProjectSHO.......Grow up????? I'm 36 years old, 5'10 and 210#'s....I sure hope I don't grow up anymore. Go back and reread your post...if that's not attitude I don't know what is. Get over yourself man. These forums are for helping people not berating them.
