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Old Jul 8, 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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Old Jul 8, 2002 | 10:09 PM
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Re: Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..

maybe you blew a fuse.
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could it be a fuse?
Old Jul 8, 2002 | 10:11 PM
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Re: Re: Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..

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maybe you blew a fuse.
just beat me to it!
Old Jul 8, 2002 | 10:16 PM
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just beat me to it!
Nope, it went away, then it went back to normal.

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Old Jul 9, 2002 | 12:04 AM
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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.
Old Jul 9, 2002 | 12:59 AM
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my .02

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.
Old Jul 9, 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.
Nope regular gauges. I'm going to run it to the shop this morning

Like I really want to do that. I'll let you all know what the damage is later.
Old Jul 9, 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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Old Jul 9, 2002 | 10:43 AM
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Re: Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..

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Nope, it went away, then it went back to normal.

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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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Old Jul 9, 2002 | 01:42 PM
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Re: Re: Have you ever been driving along and look down at the dash and ..

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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.

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I'll have to take a look at that. I'm not sure about the situation.
Old Jul 9, 2002 | 03:06 PM
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not sure if this helps...

but, if your dash dimmer is disconnected nothing on the dash works (I believe)...maybe that was loose?

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Old Jul 9, 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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when you say nothing, you mean absolutly nothing like the tach or speedometer????? wow that's interesting.
Old Jul 10, 2002 | 06:34 AM
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Re: Re: not sure if this helps...

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when you say nothing, you mean absolutly nothing like the tach or speedometer????? wow that's interesting.
for certain all of the lights...not 100% sure about the tach & speedo...

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