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    04-24-2012 12:19 PM #1
    Ok well i just replaced my speedo with the new kph one. but now the clock doesn't work and blinker indicator is on and alt light on. Anyone have any ideas what I did? maybe plugged something in wrong. Oh and I broke the hazard switch. Would that cause that?
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    04-24-2012 01:53 PM #2
    Anyone?
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    04-24-2012 02:40 PM #3
    did you swap out the L shaped green circuit board from the back of the old speedo?
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    04-24-2012 02:41 PM #4
    as long as you plug the two main plugs and the speedo - everything should work again.

    as for the hazard - you sure you are plugging it back into the correct spot? does your rear defrost work now?
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    04-24-2012 02:56 PM #5
    Quote Originally Posted by redone17 View Post
    did you swap out the l shaped green circuit board from the back of the old speedo?
    ???? My new speedo didnt have any circut baord. All i did was lift the circut board up and pull out the old speedo and put the new one in. Everything went back together the same way it came apart. Speedo, odo, trip, these things all work. And yes i made sure everything was plugged in right they are color coded. My hazard switch is not back in though. The plastic part broke coming out. The other part is still pluggd in though.
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    04-24-2012 02:58 PM #6
    Quote Originally Posted by rsay4654 View Post
    ???? My new speedo didnt have any circut baord. All i did was lift the circut board up and pull out the old speedo and put the new one in. Everything went back together the same way it came apart. Speedo, odo, trip, these things all work. And yes i made sure everything was plugged in right they are color coded. My hazard switch is not back in though. The plastic part broke coming out. The other part is still pluggd in though.
    the only thing i can think that i may have done is the right hand plug under the cluster might be one or two pins off. Or maybe even backwards.
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    04-24-2012 03:02 PM #7
    that's the thing. the NEW speedo doesn't have the green board - you need to pull it from the old speedo and swap it.

    I would make sure those wires/plugs are not twisted - but they are impossible to be pins off - they are guided in and can only really snap in one way...
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