Use an part of the body, use a star typ lock washer under the nut and ring lead .

German cars use brown wire for grounds .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Where on the cluster?

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Any screw on the speedometer.

It seems to have worked. The fuel gauge is now reading a plausible value instead of pegging full. I'd take it for a test drive, but I'm going to walk over and grab a pambazo first. It will be a few hours before it's dark enough to tell if I fixed the dash lights. I may work on the Jag a little bit.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

The white wire is my grounding connection. The other end goes to the ground point in the dash (where the bunch of brown wires are) with a Deutsch DT connector pin as a quick connect between.


The LM7812 voltage regulator keeps the cluster LED lights alive. Otherwise they start flickering and fail within a year, oddly out of every other light being replaced with LED its only those that failed consistently until I added the regulator.

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