Picture's worth 1000 words.
(Help... I've fallen and I can't get up!)
Picture's worth 1000 words.
(Help... I've fallen and I can't get up!)
It's worth noting that, if your car is an automatic, the transmission light is still going to come on with the ignition circuit.
If I hadn't discovered this AFTER I put the center console back in, I'd have spliced it in to the HVAC panel lights and used the illumination lead for the transmission indicator to power a secondary 12v outlet instead...
-Chad K.
Previous owner of VINS: 6982, 1601, 1265, and 1269
"Count of Islandia; Colonel of the Defense Forces and Chancellor of Transportation."
VIN 500's A/C panel:
VIN500ACPanel.jpg
Bill Robertson
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Patrick C.
VIN 1880
A video of my modifications can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yUpusPAvJc
This car has made me feel like an idiot more than once; though, I wish I had known that beforehand.
Hopefully someone can learn from my mistakes.
-Chad K.
Previous owner of VINS: 6982, 1601, 1265, and 1269
"Count of Islandia; Colonel of the Defense Forces and Chancellor of Transportation."
Not sure if anyone caught the thread on DMCTalk a while back about making reproduction A/C panels but there is quite a bit of good info there if you're interested. Specifically, around the same time that thread was going on DMCSELLER on ebay listed a drawing that basically showed the revision history of the panel from a complete blackout to the mid-range vin panel. At some point they pulled a new part number so the drawing did not have the complete revision history. I think the new PN came along when they changed from the outline text version to the solid text with font matching the instrument cluster.
http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?10...l=1#post151373
I put together my own guess at the progression of how the design changed for the AC panel. It would be an interesting exercise to see what version people have and what their VIN is.
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Mark D, nice write up on the different versions.
One other thing they did was the blue/red bars got flipped on #5 (bi-level). Probably just a layout mistake.
Dave M vin 03572
http://dm-eng.weebly.com/
To the best of my knowledge no production cars were built with the fully opaque panel.
Knut Grimsrud uses this Service Bulletin to start his production chronology at VIN 560 (subject line), by which time cars were definitely equipped with A/C panels with daytime visible lettering: http://www.dmcnews.com/bulletins/SC-06-7.82.html
Bill Robertson
#5939
Last edited by Greasy DeLorean Mechanic; 05-21-2015 at 06:30 AM.
Sometimes I don't even need my car to feel like an idiot
Gary