Do you have aftermarket HID's installed? My tachometer lights up perfectly now every time I turn on my lights since I took my HID's out and went back to stock lighting. Just wondering if there's any kind of correlation there... If not HID's, maybe anything that's drawing extra power from the battery? I can't remember if the problem existed before I installed the HIDs or not.

 

Not that it means anything but when my interior lights and my gague lights were LED's i had the same problem. But as soon as i went back to stock lighting mine never had a broblem either... Coinsidence??... Hellifiknow

 

hmmm.... I, too had LEDs in my sidemarkers, which I have removed with the HIDs and have not seen the problem since.

anybody else?

 

hmm... but HID's draw less power than halogen lights.....

 

yeah... but having them hooked up the the battery could screw something up.. not so much by drawing extra power, but just by having something extra rigged up to the battery maybe? i dont know, just brainstorming here.. or maybe the presence of LEDs in the electrical system could mess with something and cause the tach to not light up randomly

 

Nah, I have a fully stock 2003 Max SE and I have a dim gauge cluster.
Sometimes, I think it helps to turn off the lighting all the way down and slide it back up. But that might be in my head.

 

yours is dim, or completely out? cause i was talking about the tachometer not lighting up at all sometimes

Confirmed: this issue is completely gone now that i have removed my HID's and LED side marker bulbs

anybody else have related experiences to add?