Kimmy (216.90.69.134) - Wed Mar 18 10:21:08 2009

Speedometer, gas gage, temperature gage all at zero will not move.

ABS light on, service engine soon light on.

This morning they were working again, has done this 3xs now.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Reply #1 cody (142.165.44.52) - Mon Apr 6 19:55:55 2009

i am having the same problem with mine. from what i can tell the heater controls are hot to the touch when running. took off the pand grabbed the main harness behind and everything worked again for a few months till it died and when i got it to work again my spedo starts at 30 instead of 0. with the plug facing you check the condition of the lower most left wire ( mine was partially melted ) its black in color. may hav to change the heater contol psince mine had the markings of an auto wreakers part installed obviously before i bought the van. If you or anybody else has any other tips please respond.

Reply #2 OLN (216.130.131.66) - Tue May 26 08:35:30 2009

Apparently this is a common problem from what I have heard. I had intermittent problems with my instrument cluster where it would go totally dead, and I could slap the top of the dashboard to the left of the instrument cluster, and it would come back to life for a while. It got increasingly more frequent, and a few days ago it died totally, and no amount of mechanical shock would restore it.

I had heard that broken solder connections on the wiring harness connector that plugs into the instrument cluster could cause this problem. So I decided to remove the cluster and see if I could fix it. The instrument cluster has a connector soldered to the printed circuit board which the wiring harness plugs into. I found the solder joint on one of the pins on this connector was totally broken loose. I resoldered this pin, and for good measure, while I had the cluster out, I re-soldered all the connector pins as well as any other questionable connections on other parts of the board. This has fixed the problem for me, at least so far. For over a week, it has worked flawlessly, while previously it would go out several times a day.

Getting to the instrument cluster is not all that difficult. You have to remove several (3 as I recall) pieces of the dashboard panels starting from under the steering wheel. Look carefully to make sure you have removed all necessary screws for each panel. One the left side of one panel, there is a heater vent that has to be removed, It just snaps out, but you have to pull kind of hard. There are screws behind this vent.

There are also some wiring harness plugs to remove on one panel that go to the mirror adjustment switches and light switch. There is a small panel that covers the area between the steering wheel and the instrument cluster. This panel as well one other panel has screws and clips that hold it in place.

When you have exposed the instrument cluster, there are 4 screws, 2 on each side, that hold the cluster in place. Remove these screws, and pull the cluster forward. It is a tight fit, and you have to twist it slightly to get to the back side where you can unplug the wiring harness. There is a clip arrangement on the connector, so look it over to figure out how to release it.

The gear shift lever will have to be moved out of park and down toward drive, to get the room needed to get to the cluster. One of the dashboard panels also need to have the gear shift lever moved in order to twist it up and out of the way.

I hope this helps. This is a frustrating problem, but in my case at least, I was able to fix it in about an hour and 30 minutes start to finish

Reply #3 Julia Valenzuela (65.13.183.203) - Thu Jul 23 22:03:06 2009

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