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Subject:Re: Dash light problem...
From:Tim Demarest
Date:Thu, 1 May 2003 16:53:01 -0400

Whoops! Sorry for the missing info.

         1985 Westfalia.
         Dash cluster has a digital clock (which works), speedo (of course)
and tach.
         Spare cluster is identical, except that the clock is broken, and
the speedo is missing.

I'm primarily trying to find out if this is an "Oh yeah, that happens all
the time" problem, or something I'll need to track down the hard way!

Thanks,

Tim

At 01:48 PM 5/1/2003 -0700, mark drillock wrote:
>Ok, fess up. What year Vanagon is it and what year cluster are you
>trying to use? Analog clock or digital?
>
>Mark
>
>Tim Demarest wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >         I'm posting this in hopes that someone has run into this, and
> knows where
> > to look.
> >         I have a problem with the idiot lights in my dash, the "oil"
> and "battery"
> > lights have ceased to work (no longer come on when the key is turned on
> > before starting van), and the OXS light is on whenever the key is on.
> >         The van runs fine, and the "counter" box in the speedo cable
> for the OXS
> > light doesn't seem to need a reset (the reset button has not popped out).
> >         I tried inserting a different instrument cluster, and got the same
> > symptoms, so the problem seems to be elsewhere (although I guess I could
> > have two inst. clusters with the same problem).
> >
> > Tim