Hey guys, how you doing. I'm new here (account from 2008, two posts) and I need help with my cluster gauge.
Just at the same time I get the engine running again (fuel pump and fuel leveler replaced) , I lost the displays on my cluster gauge:
The fuel level indicator is working correctly (in those pictures can't we see it). So, the fuel pump I think it's well mounted and wired and have no relation of any kind to this new problem. I said that because I had a problem with one wire of the fuel pump:
Because yellow is touching black terminal, I put a plastic clamp between them to fix it. don't think this is the cause of the problem, I think it's only a coincidence.
MFA and gauges problem
Right after the fuel pump is mounted and wired, fuel tank filled with 20-25 Liters of fuel I tried to start engine.
The first I noticed it's a little electrical noise right below the steering every time I turn the key to on.
Immediately I stopped starting engine and look to the reles and fuses box. Didn't see anything, no smoke, didn't smell anything strange, so I try again to start engine. The noise came again. With my finger I touch a souspicious rele while the key is trying to turning on the engine. I felt how this rele vibrates at the same time of the noise.
The engine felt like it's gonna turn on, so I try again and again... Engine sounds like better at every try. But in one of them, the crunchy noise stopped and I can see the MFA displays are now erased. I turn off the key and turn on again. Is at that moment when the MFA displays all its lines, making impossible to read anything.
Hopefully for all I am a documan, so I recorded the noise:
Gauge cluster video:
Around second 20", if you pay attention, you should listen a sound at the same time of acceleration. It's like a kitty meowing:
I remember years ago reading about vacuum hose problems of the gauge cluster. Maybe now I have it too? And what relation have with the electrical sound of the other video?
Ok, this was months ago.
But, after this worldwide situation, I begin again with that issue in my Corrado. But the problem now is both displays are gone.
I have one battery for my two cars, and I put it in my Corrado when I want to start it and drive through the garage. I made this during last month without any troubles, but the other day the displays gone.
Do you know if this is another symptom of whatever (different than other things we talk here)? I don't pulled out gauge cluster yet, so this will be the next step if you don't say something different.
If my gauge cluster is dead, I will like to swap it to the modern version with de 'Corrado' and the red needles. Do you know if my +91 gauge cluster is 100% compatible with that?
Excuse me for posting this here and make a lot of questions, but really need help. After fuel pump replacement, my Corrado it is supposed to be prepared to return to the road again, after 10 years, but I can't do it that way.
Thanks and regards.