Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..
07-08-2002, 10:07 PM
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Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..
I was driving along and the whole dashboard was dead. No fuel, no tach, no speedo, no heat, no odo, nothing. Did a search a didn't see anything about it. I am suppose to be getting on the road Wed. Is it something that could be done without going to the shop, or is it an electrical challenge that needs to be tended to ???
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07-09-2002, 12:59 AM
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Have you thought about the alternator? On some of todays newer ars, all of the gauges are completely electrical in their movement. I don;t know about the maximas, but a friend of mine's malibu did the same thing and his alternator was doing its own thing-was charging too low so he bought another alternator and issue resolved.
07-09-2002, 04:53 AM
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Originally posted by i30dude
Well do you have indiglo gauges? If you do maybe the connection in the back of the cluster is loose. Or the gauges stick out too for the needles to move much. Just hit is or something before taking apart your dash.
Well do you have indiglo gauges? If you do maybe the connection in the back of the cluster is loose. Or the gauges stick out too for the needles to move much. Just hit is or something before taking apart your dash.
Like I really want to do that. I'll let you all know what the damage is later.
07-09-2002, 07:34 AM
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Well went to the shop, they said the would have to do a diagnostics on it. I told them I would come back. I'm going to have to trigger the code again. I don't remember what it was, and of course it's not doing it anymore. We'll see.
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07-09-2002, 10:43 AM
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Re: Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..
Originally posted by DARTHSWAN
Nope, it went away, then it went back to normal.
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Nope, it went away, then it went back to normal.
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Good luck finding the problem.
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07-09-2002, 01:42 PM
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Re: Re: Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..
Originally posted by MaxKlinger
If the entire dash dies intermittently, sounds like a ground wire to me. If your local shop doesn't find the problem, I would take apart the dash and follow the ground connections and check them. I think they all run to one main ground wire somewhere.
Good luck finding the problem.
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If the entire dash dies intermittently, sounds like a ground wire to me. If your local shop doesn't find the problem, I would take apart the dash and follow the ground connections and check them. I think they all run to one main ground wire somewhere.
Good luck finding the problem.
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07-09-2002, 04:17 PM
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Re: not sure if this helps...
Originally posted by FLO_BOY
but, if your dash dimmer is disconnected nothing on the dash works (I believe)...maybe that was loose?
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but, if your dash dimmer is disconnected nothing on the dash works (I believe)...maybe that was loose?
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07-10-2002, 06:34 AM
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Re: Re: not sure if this helps...
Originally posted by 95maximase
when you say nothing, you mean absolutly nothing like the tach or speedometer????? wow that's interesting.
when you say nothing, you mean absolutly nothing like the tach or speedometer????? wow that's interesting.
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