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Old Jul 2, 2009 | 05:49 AM
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The display on the gauge cluster froze. It's showing 10:13pm, N position, and 61 left til empty. Shut the car off, pull the key out, still on. I left it overnight and it's still on. I even diconnected the positive terminal under the hood and it's still on. Everything works as normal. Any idea what is up? I'm about to leave for July 4th weekend don't want to be keft stranded.
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Old Jul 2, 2009 | 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by DKNewYork' post='930497' date='Jul 2 2009, 09:49 AM
The display on the gauge cluster froze. It's showing 10:13pm, N position, and 61 left til empty. Shut the car off, pull the key out, still on. I left it overnight and it's still on. I even diconnected the positive terminal under the hood and it's still on. Everything works as normal. Any idea what is up? I'm about to leave for July 4th weekend don't want to be keft stranded.
Disconnect the battery for 2 hours?
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 03:57 AM
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dont forget to reinitialize the active steering when disconnecting battery search forum for this i believe you have to turn steering wheel all the way left and right and turn car off and on

its 4:56 am and im a zombie right now
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by DKNewYork' post='930497' date='Jul 2 2009, 06:49 AM
I even diconnected the positive terminal under the hood and it's still on. Everything works as normal. Any idea what is up?
Last I checked... the battery was in the trunk. The positive terminal under the hood does nothing - it's a jump start contact point. If everything works as normal, i.e. no loss of radio station settings, then you did NOT disconnect the battery.

Pull the negative terminal from the chassis next to the battery in the trunk (but do not shut the trunk) to remove power to everything in the car.
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Old Jul 5, 2009 | 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by or_550i' post='933458' date='Jul 5 2009, 10:31 PM
Last I checked... the battery was in the trunk. The positive terminal under the hood does nothing - it's a jump start contact point. If everything works as normal, i.e. no loss of radio station settings, then you did NOT disconnect the battery.

Pull the negative terminal from the chassis next to the battery in the trunk (but do not shut the trunk) to remove power to everything in the car.
I disconnected the wire under the hood. I was wondering why it didn't lose power. Disconnected from the trunk, all good now. I thought it was going to be a major problem that will require bringing it to service.
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Old Jul 6, 2009 | 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by DKNewYork' post='933471' date='Jul 6 2009, 04:41 AM
I disconnected the wire under the hood. I was wondering why it didn't lose power. Disconnected from the trunk, all good now. I thought it was going to be a major problem that will require bringing it to service.

Shit happens My friend came to me with this same problem, I make Instrument cluster reset by GT1 and for now everything works fine.
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