06-25-2006, 04:47 PM
damn gauges!
ever since I bought the car only the speedo has worked. If I replace one of the fuses, all the gauges will work for about 15 minutes or less and then it blows again. After looking through all the wiring under the steering column and pulling off electrical tape, I found some idiot in the past had cut and spliced tons of wires! Who knows why, probably some alarm or other component. Either way, its really frustrating and I spent some time troubleshooting, but it was beyond me.
I took it to a European shop in Annapolis, one of their mechanics has owned 12 E30's and has an E30 M3 with an E36 M3 engine, blah, blah... but has tracked it at Shenandoah... so I knew he had some real experience. Long story short, $350 later, they tell me everything works perfectly. I start driving it and within 3 minutes it blows the gauges again. I took it right back and left it for them to fix again. As of Friday, they said everything is working again (although I haven't been able to pick it up yet).
Anyone have any suggestions? I only have 2 weeks to get them working, and I don't want to spend any more money if possible. I feel I have enough of a reason to have them fixed and not be charged anymore since they wrote in my bill that "instrument cluster is operational again." The only thing they said about further repairs was that it would need to be driven for a long period in order to determine if repairs were successful.
ever since I bought the car only the speedo has worked. If I replace one of the fuses, all the gauges will work for about 15 minutes or less and then it blows again. After looking through all the wiring under the steering column and pulling off electrical tape, I found some idiot in the past had cut and spliced tons of wires! Who knows why, probably some alarm or other component. Either way, its really frustrating and I spent some time troubleshooting, but it was beyond me.
I took it to a European shop in Annapolis, one of their mechanics has owned 12 E30's and has an E30 M3 with an E36 M3 engine, blah, blah... but has tracked it at Shenandoah... so I knew he had some real experience. Long story short, $350 later, they tell me everything works perfectly. I start driving it and within 3 minutes it blows the gauges again. I took it right back and left it for them to fix again. As of Friday, they said everything is working again (although I haven't been able to pick it up yet).
Anyone have any suggestions? I only have 2 weeks to get them working, and I don't want to spend any more money if possible. I feel I have enough of a reason to have them fixed and not be charged anymore since they wrote in my bill that "instrument cluster is operational again." The only thing they said about further repairs was that it would need to be driven for a long period in order to determine if repairs were successful.
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