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10-02-2011, 02:36 PM
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In BMW We Trust!
Join Date: May 2006
Location: London, Ontario
Posts: 225
Car: 93 318IS, 04 G35 4dr
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Weird electrical problem? Please advise
93 318is
I was driving the other day, and the cluster just went crazy, all the lights came on, the dials were going all the way to the end (similar to the calibration that you can do while holding the reset km button), and went back to normal.
Again today it did the same thing, first it went off, I was doing about 90 and it dropped to zero, all turned off, and then it did the calibrating thing again and went back to normal. This does not affect the drive, doesn't shut off the car, or anything, it looks like just the cluster.
What the hell is going on!?
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10-02-2011, 10:08 PM
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be cool
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 307
Car: E90 325xi,E36 cabrio
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bimmerized
93 318is
I was driving the other day, and the cluster just went crazy, all the lights came on, the dials were going all the way to the end (similar to the calibration that you can do while holding the reset km button), and went back to normal.
Again today it did the same thing, first it went off, I was doing about 90 and it dropped to zero, all turned off, and then it did the calibrating thing again and went back to normal. This does not affect the drive, doesn't shut off the car, or anything, it looks like just the cluster.
What the hell is going on!?
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check the plug behind the cluster
but
this is common problem with the E36
best way is...try an another cluster
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10-03-2011, 05:25 PM
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Hatters gon Hatt
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: San Diego, California
Posts: 5,034
Car: 318is roadtriper
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Alternator is on its way out, either voltage regulator or diodes, my cluster did the same thing I thought i.was seeing things. The guages would drop to zero and then go to normal without me touching anything. Next the alternator diodes completely died an that was that. I got a rebuild and installed a new regulator I bought, and it stopped
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10-10-2011, 12:34 AM
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wouldu like some tinfoil?
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: in your attic!
Posts: 4,573
Car: E36-M42, ej22t
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 5style
Alternator is on its way out, either voltage regulator or diodes, my cluster did the same thing I thought i.was seeing things. The guages would drop to zero and then go to normal without me touching anything. Next the alternator diodes completely died an that was that. I got a rebuild and installed a new regulator I bought, and it stopped
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interesting.. that happened to me over the summer..cluster dying for a sec then coming back on..
and i had some belt chirp back then too.. now i hear a belt or pulley chirp for like half a second on 1st cold startup..
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10-10-2011, 10:04 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Buckingham
Posts: 2,252
Car: 97 318 IS
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Belt chirp your talking about is likly the belt tensioner dieing on you.
Common for us 4 pots at the 200K + mark, not hard to change either.
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