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WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
So I just finished installing my appradio 4 and it works great. Nice day out, so thought I would take car out for a bit of a shakedown run. Everything working well. Just about coming to the end of the ride and I notice my voltmeter looking like the first pic. However, NO BAT light. Then I shut motor down once in the garage and the voltmeter is in the position of the second picture. The radio works fine. Everything works including Siri, Maps, CarPlay etc. I am getting a staticy noise coming from the passenger side front. It even did a series of clicks which got progressively quieter then apparently stopped.
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
I'm posting second pic here because for some reason, I can't post more than one pic per post.
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
Just went out and checked digital readout and it shows normal voltage. NOW w Motor running the meter is reading correctly. W Key Off, its still off the scale.
Bad Voltmeter?
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
According to FSM page 8A-82-0 the instrument cluster voltmeter reads fuse #27 voltage directly across the line to ground. If a poor connection is not involved then the gauge is probably suspect.
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
Dom if the voltmeter turns out to be the problem I highly recommend Batee.com for the repair. GC
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
Good to know, Daryl! I saved the link.
Dom, the large connector at the back of the cluster sometimes gets oxidized (frosted), resulting a host of weird chit starts happening with the cluster - or so it did with mine. I was able to "fix" it by cleaning the pins and spraying them with electronic cleaner/lube (and that goes for any connections between the gauge, ground, and "B+". Just a thought. P.
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
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Re: WTF! Voltmeter screwy?
The + feed is common to all the analog gauges so if you had a voltage issue the other gauges would also beacting up.
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So Phil, you are confirming its the volt gauge itself. And oddly now, the gauge is reading correctly when the motor is running whereas it was not when I drove the car yesterday.
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