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Speedo light on start up immediately goes out? 1990
I only have my car about 2 months now and I have repaired everything that was not correct or that bother me. I notice that on start up in my garage the speedo light come on for a few seconds and goes out. Once I drive out of the garage into day light it goes back on! Shouldn't it be on all the time when the engine is running?
I also notice that now that I re-grounded both frame sensors the dash lights are a bit brighter and no longer blink! Last edited by rufcar; 06-29-2023 at 10:23 AM. |
06-28-2023 | #2 |
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Re: Speedo light on start up immediately goes out?
What year car?
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06-29-2023 | #3 |
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Re: Speedo light on start up immediately goes out?
Thought I typed that 1990 zr1 sorry
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06-29-2023 | #4 |
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Re: Speedo light on start up immediately goes out?
I believe the dark LCD is normal on a 1990 LCD.. 1991-newer they changed how the backlighting works. I ended up swapping in a 1991 CCM to get the brighter backlight.
Marc Haibeck has another solution to the backlight for the 1990 as well
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Re: Speedo light on start up immediately goes out?
Tkx I will look into both. J
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Re: Speedo light on start up immediately goes out?
Spoke to Marc Haibeck today. Tells me its a common problem with the 90s. He wires in a diode in the line to lift the amount of dimming for in garage and tunnel driving . Or do-nothing since those are the only times it's dim. Jim
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