Vetruck
01-26-2015, 11:29 PM
Wife came home tonight after her typical aprox 20 min commute and turned the key off, headlights off- and a few of the dash lights in the cluster stayed on. I was out so she called me, I told her leave it be of course and Ill be there in about 30mins. She went in and left the car as is.
I get home and take a look and the Low fuel, Bright lights, low Oil and one on the right (I think it was the SRS, but can;t remember for sure) were on and I could hear a faint buzzing (just a very faint probably more of a hum about as loud as if your ear were to a wrist watch listening for the ticking noise,
I turned the headlights on, off, on, off. Nothing, Shoved the gear selecter forward to see if anything, nothing, Fiddled with the overhead courtesy light switches, nothing.
I then pull the cluster out and unhook it (humming noise a little more loud now that back of cluster is exposed) I first pull the right side connector (the larger one), nothing... then reach back into there and pull the other on the left side (the smaller one) and everything of course then goes out. Plug the larger one back in- nothing (everything still out)
So it was the harness connector going into the back left of the cluster. I get my other speedo (don't ask ;) ) and plug it in and everything is working fine.
Anyone ever have this problem? That speedo has been in there for a year. obviously something shorted inside it but how?
I get home and take a look and the Low fuel, Bright lights, low Oil and one on the right (I think it was the SRS, but can;t remember for sure) were on and I could hear a faint buzzing (just a very faint probably more of a hum about as loud as if your ear were to a wrist watch listening for the ticking noise,
I turned the headlights on, off, on, off. Nothing, Shoved the gear selecter forward to see if anything, nothing, Fiddled with the overhead courtesy light switches, nothing.
I then pull the cluster out and unhook it (humming noise a little more loud now that back of cluster is exposed) I first pull the right side connector (the larger one), nothing... then reach back into there and pull the other on the left side (the smaller one) and everything of course then goes out. Plug the larger one back in- nothing (everything still out)
So it was the harness connector going into the back left of the cluster. I get my other speedo (don't ask ;) ) and plug it in and everything is working fine.
Anyone ever have this problem? That speedo has been in there for a year. obviously something shorted inside it but how?