Question for T2 owners : dash board

[DODO]

is this what you see on T2 dash at night?


or is my bulb gone out for the speedo?


and my turbo gauge dont seem to work.. do you T2 owners have that problems too by any chance?

[samol]

http://cityturbo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2271 infobase is good

But you may have a light out as both should work

[Smithy]

hehehe Do a search , theres a post with photos and how to "fix" the problems... I had same thing. Though had changed the bulbs.

Boost guage:
Basically the soldering on the boost guage cracks due to age etc, simple fix once your orientated... though with mine it had a tendency to work sometime and others not at all... I had a spare and each had the problem which even after fixing re-appeared majorioty of the time... prob poor solder fixing on my behalf.

Dash lights.
To put it bluntly the plastic dash after nearly twenty years of heat and shock, crumbles ad cracks.... when replacing bulbs, be SO sO SO careful... it will just crumble away. Also mine had shorted somewhere difficult/irritating to attempt to fix as its what I'd call a printed circuit onto flexible plastic....

[Mike_NZ]

The lights for my speedo didn't work when I got my car. The above information about crumbly plastic and shorting also applied to mine, so I think I've just run a wire from the back of one of the speedo lights to elsewhere on the back of the cluster.

Not elegant but does the job.

Getting the cluster out is heaps of fun, and putting it back in is even worse.
I hope you have nimble hands.

[DODO]

http://cityturbo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2271 infobase is good

But you may have a light out as both should work

this is not quite possible on cabs or T2s?? ive tried doing this but cant remove the plastic cover to reach in for the last two screws, as it is in one piece to the dash where aircon holes are??

[turbocab]

this is not quite possible on cabs or T2s?? ive tried doing this but cant remove the plastic cover to reach in for the last two screws, as it is in one piece to the dash where aircon holes are??

yes it is entirely possible ive had instrument clusters in and out on all of the citys ive owned,it may help to have a look at the picture in the manual to see if there is any screws that you have missed.
dont give up so easily.
matt

[city_cabriolet]

agreed, your missing a screw. Probably the one right underneath that holds it all in place.

As turbocab said, re-check the blueprints for where all the screws are, black on black makes it hard to see. Cabriolet or T2, both the same.

[DODO]

I GOT IT!

thanks so much guys.!!

fixed back light for the speedo.

fixed boost gauge.

BUT.



the car wont start after this?

car was fine an hour ago.

when the car is on "on" i hear this ticking noise from the rear underneath. and it just wont start =( ARGH!

it wont even tick over? ..

[DODO]

foolish of me... for some reason i flatted battery while doing this...

just start and its all good now

[city_cabriolet]

That ticking was probably your fuel pump starving for power.