Stock 200Q vs. Acura CL 3.2 Type "S"

[Orin Eman]

> As for the other Audi content, tried fixing intermittent possible ground
> faults in my dash display, used DeOxit (US cheaper version of Stabilant I
> think) some problems seem better (clock seems to be solid now, and so far
> no hieroglyphics from the display), but the weird ABS problem still works
> only with the parking or headlights on and never when in reverse (which
> are no longer working) problem remains, didn't have time to try
> resoldering, but saw no broken traces. In addition, Audi decided to put
> some form of conformal coating on the PCB making it impossible to probe
> with standard meter probes. Any ideas, or anyone know of a good PCB
> repair person in the Rockland Cty area of NY?

It's not usually broken traces on the 200 instrument panels, but bad
joints on the connectors.  I've 'fixed' several, usually with help.
We take all the circuit boards out and I resolder _every_ connector.
Also, there are little sockets that the speedo and tach plug into
which you may miss... we resolder these too.  The bouncing speedo
problem is when one of these cracks... and you aren't likely to be
able to see the crack.

It's a good, but expensive idea to replace all the bulbs while you have
an instrument panel out!

Orin.