[V8] Instrument cluster woes

[Tony and Lillie]

Ok, silly me. I removed the wood trim instead of the individual vents. This 
also necessitated removal of the lower panels, which is what prompted me to 
add the cubby to my drivers side.

Anyhow, that's not as bad as the first time I removed the front end of my 
car.................

Tony Hoffman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ingo Rautenberg" <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
To: "Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com>
Cc: "Tony and Lillie" <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net>; "V8 Audi Fans" 
<v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] Instrument cluster woes


>I never have, either.
>
> To remove the dashpad you need to remove the two dashpad speaker  grills, 
> the top stearing column cover (may or may not require removal  of steering 
> wheel), removal of (left) outer vent,  (center) right  vent, and (right) 
> inner vent to access and remove the 4mm allen  screws and don't forget 
> the one in the center defroster vent at the  front windshield - can only 
> be seen from outside the car. This is  only if the dash pad has never been 
> removed or was previously  replaced by a perfectionist - which I 
> apparently was when I'd finally  done the IC fix a few years back)
>
> Ingo mit V8 5 spd presently with 3 vents removed and sans dashpad...
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Ed Kellock wrote:
>
>> I don't recall having to remove any wood to pull the dashtop when I
>> did mine a few years ago.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> On 4/9/07, Tony and Lillie <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Fellow V8'ers,
>>>
>>> I also went through this with my car, and all is well. It only  took 
>>> four tries ;-) On the last one, with Ingo on the Phone  (Thanks Ingo) 
>>> I/we decided the best thing to do is resolder all of  the pins form each 
>>> board where they meet.
>>>
>>> In the interim, and after the second time of pulling the dash  apart, I 
>>> decided to leave it that way until the problem was  permenantly solved. 
>>> You can reinstall the wood trim seperately so  you still have use of the 
>>> vents. I know it doesn't look great,  but, it's quite a pain to keep 
>>> pulling and putting back together  as well.
>>>
>>> Tony Hoffman
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