Here's for those of you that have a gauge cluster problem. be it water adn oil pressure pegging, tach & speedo cut off intermittently or not working at all. and especially those who's gauge work ig on but eng off, but with engine on it cuts off. but if you turn the steering wheel it works again. i've see 3 cases of this one so here's how i fixed it.

i RE grounded all 3 just in case. now works PERFECT Enjoy!


Los

 

Cool deal - good find!

Dale

 

what about for the odometer reading?
When the parking lights aren't on...they light up fine, but once you turn the parking lights on the odometer lights just black out.
At night..i basically can't see the odometer at night with the lights on.

 

Mine does that. My dimmer switch burned out and I finally fixed that last night! A previous owner or someone who worked on the car had cut the headlight retaraction switch and failed to tape off the ends. Two of the wires fused togather causing me to lose dash lights for the last 2 months.
I continue to have a short though, when I hit the breaks it causes the parking lights to come on? Sheesh...

 

does that mean i should check my dimmer switch? Everything else works fine...even the dimmer...just the odomter lighting.

 

I doubt its the dimmer if it is working correctly. I fixed mine and the odometer is still having problems, it must be somewhere else.

 

any ideas where it can be? it's quite annoying that everything lights up cept for that....

 

Hey do you think this is similar to my problem ? Should I be checking the grounds on the dimmer switch, etc? Thanks.

 

you may wanna try this anyway. i know my odometer cut out on it's own. not necceserily with my lights. but hey younever know. might be one of the right side grounds. onthe right picture...they controls alot ofthe bulbs. something may be crossing. i do know that a common problem was on the green paper cicuit board onthe back of the cluster, if you look around and especially follow the ground line... there was a spot that would burn through. might be that. an ex mazda guy that's now a tool guy told me it's happen alot. on our 7's. they would solder a small piece of wire to jump the burnt spot.

check it out

later.

Los

 

thanks man, this is the exactly what i've been looking for! Those are the same symptoms that I have. I will give it a try as soon as I can adn let you know how it goes.