Gauges dead. Matched the part numbers, tried three different clusters. All the same. Help?

Bamm · Post by **Bamm** » 10 Mar 2017, 15:51

Hey all. I have a 2002 V70 and the gauges went on the fritz and then went dead. No speedo/fuel/temp/tach/signals/brights etc. Check engine light comes on and goes off as it should, but that's it. I have access to multiple parts cars. One has a dash cluster that was recently remanufacted so I thought I was going to be all good. Put it in, no difference. Pulled another donor cluster, no difference. Looked for blown fuses, none I could find. Can any of you help me out? Thanks..........jb

Post by **oragex** » 10 Mar 2017, 18:51

you want all but the Spare number to match the ones on your original unit

Bamm · Post by **Bamm** » 10 Mar 2017, 19:30

So the Spare P/No. matching is a bad thing?

Bamm · Post by **Bamm** » 12 Mar 2017, 19:20

Okay, so here is a twist. One of the parts/donor cars that I have has a remanufactured dash cluster. Plug it into my current daily driver and it doesn't work. Only the check engine light. So, I put the dash cluster back into the parts car (motor blown) and decided to test it there. Installed a battery and the dash cluster worked perfectly. All the factory numbers match. Any help?

Bamm · Post by **Bamm** » 12 Mar 2017, 19:22

Also, took the dash cluster out of my wife's daily driver (also a 2002 v70) and it worked perfectly in mine. Just odd.

Post by **oragex** » 13 Mar 2017, 03:59

The cluster you had originally in the car, the one that went bad, did it actually work well before it went bad? Your car cluster may need the numbers that your wife car has. It's ok if the spare No is also matching, I believe the most important is the 650T as looking at the above picture.

Bamm · Post by **Bamm** » 13 Mar 2017, 05:36

No, it had started blinking and numbers wouldn't show up. Bright light indicator didn't work. It is the same when I switched that cluster into my wife's car. I just can't figure out why a cluster that works perfectly in a donor car, has the same numbers doesn't work in my car. Yet when I swap the one from my wife's daily driver into my car it works fine. Thanks guys for putting time to his for me.

Bamm · Post by **Bamm** » 13 Mar 2017, 05:42

The numbers match across all four cars. Just for reference.

Post by **vtl** » 13 Mar 2017, 09:37

DIM (the gauge cluster) is connected to CEM, you may see CEM problem in fact.

jbeebo · Post by **jbeebo** » 13 Mar 2017, 13:49

I was just thinking the same thing as vtl, that it might be related to an upstream issue (the CEM), or the wiring harness between the two.

Let me get this straight:
multiple DIM don't work in your car?
your wife's DIM _does_ work in your car?
multiple DIM _does_ work in your wife's car?

Any other electrical gremlins about, or is it strictly the DIM in your car?