Hello and welcome to the forums! I am sure that the owners of these cars will be very appreciative and glad to hear they are repairable. I was unsure.
It sounds like these are extremely similar to the Lexus clusters and it sounds like they go bad for the same reason. I have not yet heard of them going bad on a 1997 or newer LS400 yet, but I think I have heard one issue on a 96' LS400, but mostly on the generation 1 LS400 (90-94). They are repairable too as mentioned and around the same price and like you said- they advertise on E-bay for repairing these.
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Originally Posted by bowin
Hi,
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Yes, These clusters can be repaired. There are a few guys repairing these with different range of prices from 200 to 350. Some of them even advertise in Ebay with 3-6 days turn around.
These cluster are using small fluorescent lights (one large at the center and two at the sides to light up display). There is a common ballast which serve all fluorescent. Due to overload to this ballast (design) the power supply transistors (MOSFET) failed and sometimes overheated. When overheated they came off from the soldering points which melted at the soldering points and shorted to printed board and caused to blow fuses. If the soldering points are not melted yet and all other functions will work.
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1991 Lincoln Town Car Executive
1991 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
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1972 Chevrolet Caprice Kingswood Estate 9-passenger wagon
1973 Pontiac Grand Ville
(Prior MB's: 1974 240D, 1985 380SE, 1984 190D, 1993 400SEL)
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