Dash light won't go off?

"nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul" (nfamouscj) 04/23/2015 at 07:52 • Filed to: None

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Remove the bulb!

After my previous dash foibles the [2nd] replacement is in and working great... Mostly. Turns out this one came from a limited where as mine is a touring. The difference? ABS. Yeah, in 2006 ABS was still an option - Thanks Obama Chrysler! What’s this mean? Well when I turned it on after a few seconds I got a chime and ABS light to notify me my non-existent ABS isn’t working. Oops. So off comes the cluster again. Bulb out. Back in. Car on. Chime is no worries. Parking Break light is on when the parking break is off. Crap. Apparently it’s a part of the brake check system with abs. So guess what? Bingo! Bulb came out. (I really don’t need a big light on the dash to tell me the parking brake is on when there’s clearly a huge lever that’s up).

Fuel gauge worked fine, not sure about the temp gauge since it only ran for a minute or so and my car has always been slow to warm up - sending unit was recently replaced however. But if not, fuckitImnotdealingwithitanymore.

And I’m going to throw it out there that’s not a bad looking dash. White face, blue lights, subtle chrome trim, balanced gauges. It’s really the only part of the interior Chrysler took some time to think out. Or they were just lazy and went simple.

thebigbossyboss > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 04/23/2015 at 07:55

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Hey I too am considering replacing the dash in my car. And I have questions!!

What happened to your odometer when you replaced your dash? Did it read the miles from the new car, or were you able to set it to read properly?

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > thebigbossyboss 04/23/2015 at 08:00

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Odometer reading will come from the actual ecm/tcm so your miles are safe. I think the only thing not saved would be if you had a trip counter running.

thebigbossyboss > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 04/23/2015 at 08:02

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Ok cool. None of my guages work anymore except the tach, so it was getting to be about that time. According to my speedo I didn’t go above 20 km/h (like 12 mph) on my way to work this morning which was interesting considering I was in 4th. LOL.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > thebigbossyboss 04/23/2015 at 08:14

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Almost as bad as my replacement dash showing my resting speed was 20mph.

Did a quick look on eBay and all of the Cavy dash cluster are listing odometer readings... That may mean yours are recorded by the dash. However they do have a bunch of $20 gauge repair kits you may want to invest instead.

OPPOsaurus WRX > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 04/23/2015 at 08:18

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In my first car, a 95 Explorer, the interior lights would occasionally stay on despite ll the doors being closed and switches off. It would go away after a drive or two. I’d pull the fuse to get them to go off but that would also kill some other stuff like ABS and power windows. What a weird group of things to be on the same fuse.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > OPPOsaurus WRX 04/23/2015 at 08:23

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I love 90’s generation Fords. Their cookiness was their charm.

My dad had a 94 explorer in red that eventually turned pink over the years. They donated it to his fire academy class to chop in half and fold on top of itself.