Help.....Service Indicator Light Issue

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  • beta14ok
    Wrencher
    • Mar 2009
    • 283

    #1

    Help.....Service Indicator Light Issue

    Service indicator lights are screwy, stay-on, and will not re-set!

    Yesterday I had 3 job to do on my little red 318is
    1) Fix the odometer
    2) replace my stock steering wheel with a nice wood-trim Momo wheel
    3) fish-out the wires for the foglights and wire to the dash switch (my car didn't have the fogligts originally...but the wires are there for the taking)

    I purchased a set of gears from http://www.odometergears.com/ and the job was relatively easy...the odometer works fine now. Everything else went fine. the car looks great!:)

    But the Service indicator lights are screwy, stay-on, and will not re-set!

    Here's the situation:
    "Inspection" indicator Blinking
    Green light 1 off
    Green light 2 on
    Green light 3 on
    Green light 4 off
    Green light 5 on
    Yellow light off
    Red light off

    After a reset....the green lights and the blinking "Inspection" letters stay on!

    I've been reading...but I can't find any info on this issue.

    Please HELP.
  • beta14ok
    Wrencher
    • Mar 2009
    • 283

    #2
    I pulled the instrument cluster back-out of the re-assembled dash (What a pain!! ),
    1) disconnected each of the circuit boards and meters,
    2) then cleaned all of the contact points with alcohol,
    3)gently tightened the springs on all of the circuit board contact clamps (used a jewelers screwdriver to push the spring on each side of each pin-clamp toward the center line...no gaps).
    4) re-re-assembled

    The problem has been corrected!:o:)

    Man these things are delicate. I'm half tempted to pull it out again and just solder everything together, but then that would make fixing it next time even more of a pain.

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    • John in VA
      E30 Addict
      • Aug 2007
      • 553

      #3
      I just ordered odo gears last week. Did you have any trouble removing the metal bushing from the shaft for the smallest gear?

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