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- From: "Gary A. Woodward" <p00140@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Digital Dash fading out
- In-Reply-To: <Bz8Bov.498@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:49:02 GMT
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- >DATE: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:14:53 GMT
- >FROM: Real Life?? HA <mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>
- >
- >alter@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Eric Alter) writes:
- >
- >>I assume that this is the beginning of a failure. How do go about determining
- >>the cause of this problem? Do the digital dashes just need to be replaced?
- >>If so, how much are the dealers gonna charge me?
-
- >
- >Well, I can't speak for the Beretta, but I know that in a Corvette, Chevy will
- >not repair the dash, and asserts that the dash is irreparable in any circum-
- >stance. (This is for the pre-'90 or '91 Vettes with the all-digital dashes,
- >BTW) Chevy also wanted in the multi-thousand dollar range for a new dash, if I
- >remember right. Anyway, a friend of mine worked at a small electronic shop of
- >some sort, and one of the things he did was repair Corvette dashes. So if I
- >were you, I would hesitate to take the car back to the dealer; I would at the
- >least check with a few electronics places first and see if they can do anything
- >for you. I have a nasty feeling that the Beretta dash won't be tons different
- >from the Vette dash, in the sense that Chevy will only replace it, and charge a
- >fortune. Of course, the Beretta dash is significantly different, being vacuum-
- >fluorescent or some such thing and monochrome, while the Vette's was color and
- >(I think) LCD. In any case, I'd check around a bit before going to the dealer.
- >Good luck!
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Michael T. Chaffee | mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu | ______
- > | \ / HATE
- >"I chased a rainbow down a one-way street. Dead end." | \ / is not a
- > - S. P. McCall | \/ FAMILY VALUE
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Check in your local yellow pages for a shop that repairs Delco
- radios-many of them also repair digital dashes. Take the dash out-be
- sure to have a way of proving current mileage-and in most cases obtain a
- rebuilt core while you wait. Most of the time the voltage regulator ic
- is the problem.
-
- regards.
-
- Gary
-