acecadillac Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Missing several characters from the computer message display screen, the entire heater display is gone and a few characters from the mileage display area. Help? Plus the left blinker flashes to fast. I can't find any bulb burnt on that side. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Not sure about your display situation but as far as the rapid left blinker I may be of some help. Looking at your car from the rear, with your lights on, carefully inspect the bulb in your outboard light housing. It's a dual filament bulb. You may have to turn your turn signal on to notice that one of the filaments is blown. This happened to me and I couldn't tell that it was blown. It took another set of eyes to see it. -regis "Burns" rubber " I've never considered myself to be all that conservative, but it seems the more liberal some people get the more conservative I become. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poobah Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Sounds like your instrumant panel cluster is bad. It's all solid state and I don't think it can be fixed. I had to replace mine a couple of years ago (the previous owner had tried to disable the air bag warning light). The dealer charged me about $600 to install a new one. You could probably get it done for less if you put in a used cluster. One issue to consider when changing the IPC is the milage reading. The data is stored in the cluster. When they ordered my cluster, they had to get the milage set before it was delivered. If you get a used one, the milage won't match and you could have to explain the descrepency if your state requires a milage reading when the title is transfered. Hope this is helpful, Good luck! Happiness is owning a Cadillac with no codes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 If Poobah is correct about the cluster being shot, I have used these guys for an 86 corvette, they repaired it quickly. They are the local repair center for my cadillac and chevy dealer... Mike http://modelelectronicsinc.com/index.htm Early on sailors navigated by the stars at night and the North star became the symbol for finding ones way home. Once you know where the Northstar is you can point your ship in the right direction to get home. So the star became a symbol for finding ones way home or more symbolically even finding ones path in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navion Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 acecadillac, I can't help on the cluster, but on the turn signal blinking to fast, possibly. My 94 SLS had the same problem. Replaced the bulb, no change. Then I noticed that someone had installed self tapping sheetmetal screws in the back of the bulb socket where the ground wire attaches. I tightened the screw about a half turn & the signals started flashing at the correct rate again. I checked the other side and that socket had the screw treatment done to it also. There wasn't any butchering of the wiring, so I assumed that it was done under a recall or something. As tightening the screw cured my problem, I quickly forgot all about it. Now I am wondering, has anybody else noticed the screw treatment on their brake/turn sockets? The symptom of fast flashing is indicitive of an incorrect resistance in the flashing circut. Usually caused by a blown bulb. However, an incomplete ground for the same bulb will result in the fast flash symptom also. I doubt that it is related to your DIC problem. Good Luck, Britt Britt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 About 3 weeks back half of my instrument panel went off. I thought that it had to have gone bad, I mean why wouold there be different circuits for lighting on that panel. What did I know? Not enough!! I looked in the manual and found that there are different fuse locations for the instrument panel. I checked them all and found the fuse in the trunk for it was bad. I replaced it and everything lit up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northstar Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 Snip off all six of your rear sockets and replace with new ones. If you need the part number for the sockets let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acecadillac Posted April 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 Snip off all six of your rear sockets and replace with new ones. If you need the part number for the sockets let me know. What does this fix. The cluster or fast blinking? Do you mean replace the bulb sockets? Why? What problem are they causing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 Snip off all six of your rear sockets and replace with new ones. If you need the part number for the sockets let me know. What does this fix. The cluster or fast blinking? Do you mean replace the bulb sockets? Why? What problem are they causing? That might be getting a little extreme. First try the quick cheap or free fixes. No sense in jumping the gun and chopping off the finger because you have a hang nail....... not yet at least. "Burns" rubber " I've never considered myself to be all that conservative, but it seems the more liberal some people get the more conservative I become. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeM Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 I have encountered the fast blinking turn signals myself when replacing a rear tail lightbulb. They are dual filament like stated above, if you arent careful, you can insert the bulb incorrectly and it will illuminate, but too brightly. This caused the turn signal problem for me you are reporting. You can pull each bulb and see if the problem goes away/replace all the bulbs (it was like $3 for a pack of 2 bulbs). I guess my eldo has 6 for the rear tail lights. I would also suggest checking all the fuses related to the Instrument Panel Cluster(IPC). I have had a blown IPC fuse and the fuse itself showed no visible signs (burns/break) of damage. Only swap and checked helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northstar Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 The fast blinking is caused by a known ground problem inside the sockets. Make sure all your bulbs work first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northstar Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 It happend to my 96 STS and many others too. After I snipped off the six sockets and replaced them all was good. Look for black color within the white plastic near where the ground wire goes in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northstar Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 You can start with the left side if you want but after you see how much brighter that side is you will want to do all six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 The fast blinking is caused by a known ground problem inside the sockets. It happend to my 96 STS and many others too. After I snipped off the six sockets and replaced them all was good. No offense but I'm not sure that is the best advice at the moment. I've never had to cut and replace bulb sockets to fix a fast blinking bulb. We're not talking rocket science here. They're pretty simple systems. Sure it could be a bad ground, dirty socket or a host of other things but let's help him by starting off with the most common fixes. I think it would be safe to assume that about 8 out of 10 fast blinkers are just bulb related. Next would probably be a dirty socket or ground. "Burns" rubber " I've never considered myself to be all that conservative, but it seems the more liberal some people get the more conservative I become. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northstar Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 If all your bulbs are good look for the burned black color near where the ground wire goes into the socket. If you see this then you know you have the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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