Instrument Panel

Hey guys, I have a 2003 Silverado. About 2 months ago I noticed that while I would be driving down the highway my tach would drop to zero and not register again until the truck had set for about and hour or so. Well I havent had that problem in a while but now my speedometer will register incorrectly and when the truck is shut off it does not return to zero. (Only occassionally happens). Well today I noticed that my trip meter reset itself. (two different times). About 8 months ago i put in a new radio and an alarm with remote start but didn't notice anything wrong until about 5 months later so I don't know that that would have affected anything. Also I just put a new battery with an auxillary. (Installed like 3 days ago.) Do any of you have any ideas or have you had any similar problems? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

Cory

GM clusters are notorious for failures. Check these guys out, they give you a total custom re-build to you're specs.

http://www.freewebs.com/primepower/index.htm

Thanks man I'll try that.

That looks sweet, custom for close too dealer price. Tykrz have you bought from them?

I've never heard of the newer style going bad but not saying it's not true. I'd pop the one you have out and try to clean the contacts on the plug first.

Has anyone here purchased one of these instrument panels from that site? I'm a little confused. Why does he need to know the mileage of your truck? I thought the mileage was stored some place other than inside the instrument cluster. Theoretically, if someone had a truck with 100K miles, they could purchase a cluster from this guy and have 20K miles programmed into it...right? I know this is illegal, but what if? Any thoughts?

Got the Denali style...nothing too snazzy for my tastes but I like the looks of that cluster ( black with white needles...glows blue at night) along with the tranny temp gage.
Miles and hours were programmed to reflect original mileage.
I'm not sure where else the mileage is stored if at all, but any GM tech would know if the mileage is also stored in the PCM.
Anyway, service was good, and there are numerous positive testimonilas on sites such as the Avalanche forum and GM forums.
As far as programming mileage, no different than buying a new cluster with zero miles and installing as is. As long as the mleage is recorded somewhere.

Mileage is ONLY stored in the cluster so yes, you can change it out for anything and no one would know. Unfortunately, there's a lot of shady places out there that do it. Now with these high tech computer/scanners, they can just plug into the OBDII connector and make it show what ever mileage they want to.