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Old 07-30-2009, 01:03 PM
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This is the story, I bought a 2001 Z28 from a friend who bought the car at a used car lot. Well, I never noticed but my abs inop light, asr light, and brake light do not work. I removed the cluster only to find out that it was missing the l.e.d bulbs in all 3 of those spots. So I went to the junk yard and pulled some bulbs out and resoldered them on. Still they don't work. I tested the bulbs before installing them and they worked. What could be the problem? Can anyone help me out.
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I have a cluster with 105k,...$75.+shipping.....if u want white face add $20. buxaroos.....
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Originally Posted by dgcustomz
This is the story, I bought a 2001 Z28 from a friend who bought the car at a used car lot. Well, I never noticed but my abs inop light, asr light, and brake light do not work. I removed the cluster only to find out that it was missing the l.e.d bulbs in all 3 of those spots. So I went to the junk yard and pulled some bulbs out and resoldered them on. Still they don't work. I tested the bulbs before installing them and they worked. What could be the problem? Can anyone help me out.
maybe the printed circuit on the rear of the cluster has some burns or incomplete connections in it.
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Maybe you put them in bass ackwards
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Originally Posted by ex-SS-ve
maybe the printed circuit on the rear of the cluster has some burns or incomplete connections in it.
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yep thats my guess too, the circuit is messed up or even if oil from your hands got on it it can ruin it
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Very unlikely that anything of the sort has happened. It's such low voltage going through there it would be hard to burn a trace without popping another compnet first. And oil from your hands makes no difference.
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Originally Posted by whitehooptie
Maybe you put them in bass ackwards

Hmm. backwards. Well I checked and traced the boards and I found nothing wrong. What I want to do is open up a stock cluster to see if they are backwards. Thanks guys for all the input.
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Well if you did put them in backwards, they are blown. You can get new ones from Mouser.com. They're in Mansfield.




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