To our American friends....

piazza-crx · Post by **piazza-crx** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:37 am

Just a quick question to our american posters...

Here in australia the piazza was delived only with the digital instrument cluster. Unfortunately for us this has proven to be a faulty item on many of our cars. Most of the time they just randomly stop working.

Im wondering whether any of the digital instrument impulses in the USA had this problem, and if so, has anyone found a solution?

Impulsive Yank · Post by **Impulsive Yank** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:08 am

I'm not so sure there were much delivered here with the digi-dash. it's covered in the owner manual & factory repair book but I have not heard of anyone having one.

Madcat · Post by **Madcat** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:48 pm

There was a guy in Cali that was trying to get rid of an'86 turbo that had it and leather seats. I've got his e-mail addy if anyone wants to try and contact him.

Madcat

Bugle · Post by **Bugle** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:59 pm

Yeah notice the MPH light on our dashes that doesn't light up

Someone here posted a fix for their dash. Some tracks on the pcb got ruined by corrosion or something.

Bugle · Post by **Bugle** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:06 pm

There I found it and stuck it in the workshop

Rodeobob · Post by **Rodeobob** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:08 am

Ive got an 86 Impulse owners book. It covers both dashes.

The digital dash was mentioned in the sales movie that was posted up.

I think it was a spec thing, the luxury trim option got the digi dash.

If a digital dash isnt working theres usualy somthing that can be done to fix it. It would be no more complicated than a TV. The pics Bugle put up explain it pretty well. Heat, age, corosion and vibration dont do good things for solder.

Bob.

piazza-crx · Post by **piazza-crx** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:03 pm

Hehe im too young to have tried to fix my own tv. modern TV's are a lil more complex and are usually covered by warranty anyway. I actually like the digidash, just a shame that it has so many problems....

Bugle · Post by **Bugle** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:41 pm

It happens long after the warranty end. It happened to my TV recently which is about 15 years old. If you run it without the back half of the case on the circuit board bends down a bit because there's nothing supporting it and it works. If you put the case on it holds the circuit board straight and it doesn't work. Found a fair few broken solder joints and fixed them but still hasn't fixed it, going to have to resolder everything..