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termite
Date registered: Dec 1899
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| electrical gremlins
in the process of selling my '86 230ge and while driving home today, i lost tach, directionals, temp and gas gauges [possible that the truck got wind of the planned upgrade and is rebelling]...the four way flasher works but the aforementioned seem to be on strike...anyone have any ideas? |
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ericdab
Date registered: Dec 1899
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| RE: electrical gremlins
haha! I have that exact gremlin! must be something in the NY air... Anyway, i think i solved my problem today. first, the fuse looked warn so I replaced that. and second I found that under the dash there is what looks like a relay box controling these functions... I tracked the grounds down and tightened them up.... that seemed to do the trick because I haven't seen the problem pop up yet.
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DUTCH
Administrator Doppelgänger
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: US, GA, Atlanta
Vehicle(s): 2015 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI,2018 Sprinter
Posts: 9963
| RE: electrical gremlins
termite - 6/19/2006 5:51 PM
in the process of selling my '86 230ge and while driving home today, i lost tach, directionals, temp and gas gauges [possible that the truck got wind of the planned upgrade and is rebelling]...the four way flasher works but the aforementioned seem to be on strike...anyone have any ideas?
Ground point behind the cluster. Very common on the older G's. |
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termite
Date registered: Dec 1899
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| thanks guys, problem solved
tackled the ground issue this a.m. turned out to be a combination of things: the ground bolt behind the dash had some corrosion on it so i cleaned it up and bolted it back together [still no joy]; took the cluster out and cleaned up that multiplug as well [alas, no joy and frustration starting to rise]; finally, take out the fuse for the 4th time and low and behold, this time the end of the fuse just flakes off. new fuse and rapture  consoled myself w/ the rationalization that all of the other stuff needed doing anyway...thanks again for the input. |
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