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hey guys

got into the car yesterday and started driving and decided to turn lights on as it was getting dark and lights turned on fine except the lights for the gauge cluster didnt come on. Headlights, park lights and dash lights came on except the gauge stayed off. the gauge cluster itself works...speedo, tacho fuel and indicators all work. I tried checking all fuses, connections, changed the led's and also swapped cluster with a mates one and even with his it all works except the lights for it.

anyone have any ideas? i need to drive car tonight and its kinda hard driving looking at the little display on the powerfc handcontroller saying speed and revs haha.

any help would be great as i'm stuck

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hey guys

got into the car yesterday and started driving and decided to turn lights on as it was getting dark and lights turned on fine except the lights for the gauge cluster didnt come on. Headlights, park lights and dash lights came on except the gauge stayed off. the gauge cluster itself works...speedo, tacho fuel and indicators all work. I tried checking all fuses, connections, changed the led's and also swapped cluster with a mates one and even with his it all works except the lights for it.

anyone have any ideas? i need to drive car tonight and its kinda hard driving looking at the little display on the powerfc handcontroller saying speed and revs haha.

any help would be great as i'm stuck

i dont own a 33, but check your fuses man. could be a simple as that. that means pull every one of them out to see if there is any broken.

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i dont own a 33, but check your fuses man. could be a simple as that. that means pull every one of them out to see if there is any broken.

yeh i tried that and all were sweet. i tried the ones inside the car next to steering wheel. are there any others i need to check?

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does it have a rheostat to adjust the brightness of the dash lights?

if it doesn't, you might have to rip the cluster out and have a look/test.

yeh it does have the little thingy to control it. after you said that i quickly ran out to the car to make sure that the brightness wasnt turned off and hence the lights not on haha....it was set to max...lol.

yeh what sorta test can you do/what to look for?

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is it a manual scroll type knob for the rheostat or a push button up/down.

if its just a rheostat type, just bridge the wires or earth it out, but if its push button/module type it ain't that easy.

not familiar with the vehicle, so i can't really say with any more detail.

typically however the brightness controls, control the earth side of the instrument lights, if that helps at all...

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i had to go out and got back and had a good look at the car and managed to sort out the problem...one of the wires for the plug into the gauge cluster has split. when i was driving the indicators didnt work so i assumed that it was to do with the cluster but now with the cluster sorted the indicators still don't work. i can turn lights on and off and high and low beam but the indicator itself doesn't work which is weird as the lights are on the same stalk.

anyone have ideas on how to sort this problem out? haha

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