In a previous video https://youtu.be/5N08WkiNADQ I ran down the cluster on this F-150 to be the source of the dinging going crazy. To be more particular it is the results of the air bag circiut code it was throwing for the "open bulb" due to a failing circuit board. I sent it out to United Radio here in NY and they fixed it up nice! -Enjoy!
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Uh finally got some rain folks parked up town here ran out of spots uh. Uh. I don't remember where we left off of this video. But we got approval he says he approves of our diagnosis.
So here's the box from the u of r. That's uh united radio. I don't know what u of r stands for university of rochester. I guess you're uh united radio out of syracuse.
Just open her up kind of tighten. The cabinet door unboxing bear with me. There's your invoice. There's a return label here's our cluster stick some of this up there.
She is she's back from the dead uh. The fella. There that fixed it my guy. He called me.
I guess the other day told me that uh this little girl. She wasn't no virgin let me tell you what he said. Somebody's been in here. He says.
All the needles and stuff were broken and super glued and epoxied and things like that and he also shed a little bit of light on the brake light problem. And so the reason. The brake light didn't work is because they did the old used car guy trick. They took this all apart broke everything put some tape over it and then put it all back.
Together and then he also said that the speedometer was about 10 miles an hour off uh so uh you fix that for us. Also said that over on the left plug uh there were some issues with the resistors he fixed that reflowed to solder did whatever they do and said. We should be good to go in regards to the wiggly plug of the lights flicker in business. What we need to know is do we have another warning.
You know warning light issue beyond. What we were seeing you know the this thing was going you know bing bing bing bing all the time or no it was making the other noise all the time. I'm gonna make sure we got the sink on the right way yeah. I'm thinking.
That's got a face towards the back. Yes. Sir okay. There's that because we weren't sure.
If that was just a cluster issue or if there really was some kind of warning going off. I don't know if you guys remember i think that's where we were at so we're just gonna stick this up here. I didn't bring any tools with me. We gotta drive back to the shop.
It's a first date. Though what am i missing here. Oh there we go now she's slipped right in so. Let's turn the key on hey we got a working brake light that's not is that the dinger that was the dinger.
We got our flashing airbag light. Now so that's good um let's put our seat belt on seat belt. Light goes off let's uh. I wiggle this now and the dome lights.
Don't flicker let's make sure the dome lights work. They do that's the dinger. We were having having an issue with so we're going to start it of course. We have a flashing airbag light.
There must be some airbag codes in it we had no wipers or they're pretty uh metally yep. So our airbag lights flashing um and perhaps the fella that owns this truck. He maybe. He knew about that already he probably should have i'm gonna put just a screw in here finger tight that way it doesn't fly out on us going down the road. Let's take a first shake make sure our warning lights are either gone or there or whatever uh remember in the first part of the video. We did plug in the low brake fluid warning light under the hood which i assume somebody unplugged. It because they were starting to have the classic ford you know flickering brake light problem that these clusters have so foreign shakedown. Everything coming.
I don't think so just the golf cart so now we have a steady airbag light on and we sure needed this rain folks. I'll tell you what hasn't rained in almost four weeks. Everything was turning pretty brown. The corn was all curled up looking like onion patches out here.
But hallelujah it has rained almost all night. We've got a good steady four or five hours of rain. So far well you know what that means it means. We're gonna have some mold on again kind of a lot of heat here with the rain there's the old country song says rain makes corn corn makes whiskey take some girls feel a little frisky right far so good i think we got this fellas problem fixed we're not getting the bing bing bing the noise foreign belt and water pump and had to wait for the timing covers the timing covers are all mush on it and believe it or not dorman actually makes a set of replacement timing covers for that car it's supposed to be here.
Today. So i can finish the job. So i got it all pushed back in and uh. I dare say this job is is good oh baby hold on so if you guys uh are doing fixing your ford.
I'm sure there there must be hundreds of videos of these online of the clusters going bad in these i think like the 04 to 08. Uh f. 150s like i said they're pretty notorious for this one the guy gave me his symptoms. I was pretty sure it's what we're gonna find but decide to check her out anyways um.
But yeah you know your radio does a great job on it they've fixed lots and lots of clusters for me. Particularly gm clusters and it's kind of nice because you actually get to talk to the guy working on it or at least. I do i assume that's kind of a practice there because call there i don't know there's like one guy that works on the gm ones. This other guy works on the ford ones and they're nice people they'll talk to you tell you what they found what was broke and if they're having a hard time duplicating your uh your symptom.
You know they'll call you. And you know just they're real real american people. I don't know that's all true or not. But let's stick this thing back on fire back up.
Here. There's an ac up in there by the way got a plugger over here goes on this side three pedals. If i don't plug it foreign click back in there where you at baby. There's that one oh.
There's that one gotta watch the wind here do that there west at 69 degrees triple dollar 167 000. Miles high there's a couple screws down here one in each corner now what are they seven millimeter. I guess there's that i'll get the other one and then i just put this back up here and click that thing back on everything's clicky clacked. Except. That's where it was boom. This guy's off to the races baby and we'll take our garbage with us all right so that's that folks. I guess um. No wind to hold them no wind fold them uh.
We tried doing our little solder business. But it's a good thing. We sent it in because like you say the you know. The fellow told us that the uh.
Oh let me check one more thing. Yes. And the oil gauge. Works as it should now yeah perfect okay you know because uh like i say you know your limitations.
You know we went through and put solder or reflowed to solder on those pins. But when it comes to the little resistors and soldering and stuff like that'd be probably pretty ugly. If i you know went about it and the guy at the united radio. When i told him that he thanked me.
He says well thanks for not doing that because usually people do and then they send it in so don't do that just send it in get it fixed get it back have your warranty. And just be happy with life and make me happy down in that comment section. The questions the comments the insty the facebook and just remember viewers. If i can do it you can do it thanks for watching.
It's so important to have the contacts that you have in your line of work. It sure makes jobs like this much easier. Up the great work and please stay safe and healthy.👍
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Hiya Eric
So the real question at hand is- Is Mrs. O. going to have whisky ?
got it fixed. again
At the shop I’m at we’ve got a mom and pop cluster repair shop less than a mile away, and they’ve been there for like 25 years, fantastic family business that really know their stuff with clusters
Great video as usual Eric! I'm curious as to how much it costs to having it fixed compared to replacing it? Take Care and keep the vids coming.
I worked at United Radio in Syracuse back in the early 90s, when they still repaired consumer electronics. It was a great company then, glad to see they're still in Business and still doing a good job.
Wow the Brake Light Wad Taped over somebody went as far as opening it to glue the needles and Put tape over the light wow Eric O atleast It Got repaired and it's working well now @SouthMainAutoRepairLLC
You got rain, lucky you, I live in Ontario , Canada, hasn’t rain in almost 5 weeks here, I’m afraid to walk on my grass I might break it lol
Hey Eric I need that speedometer guy my 99 caravan speedometer needs recalibrated
Who do you go to for auto computer modules??? repairing them???
Eric, I've been living in southern California all my life. We don't see rain often. The few days of the year it does rain people panic, They act like it's the end of the world, trying not to get wet rushing to their homes at the same time causing many car accidents, it's crazy here. But we don't have rust issues as I see in your channel.
Great video as always Eric. Is the that a Holden ( the Chevy) Commodore from Down Under parked in the shed?
Nice work and video as always ! I do a lot of the Ford clusters and you will get a warning tone if the air bag light is out . It is different tone from the key dinger. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge.
Who would be a good place to repair a speedometer for a 1978 Dodge Aspen??
Great video man your awesome
Your dealings with used car guys special skills makes me nervous to ever buy a used vehicle
I have a 2008 F150 with red brake light staying on and dome light/cargo lamp randomly coming on. It's definitely the cluster that's the issue. I don't know who manufactured these for Ford, but they have some real crappy solder joints on them to have so many issues. From what I hear United Radio does a really good job with pretty quick turn around on repairs.
Nice that UR is only 10 miles from me,they fixed a TV for me under warranty and did a cluster on my old chevy!
Ford clusters are complete junk.
Jeffescortlx is a good YouTube channel if anyone wants to watch someone repair a bunch of different clusters.
What is this rain that you speak of? Southern CT has gotten two brief drizzles over the past three weeks, everything stayed north of Hartford. Our lawn is still green – cut it high, let it lie – everyone else mowed their lawns short and on Sunday morning I noticed so many brown lawns, especially homes that invested in that fancy-schmancy roll-down grass. We're in the middle of a two-day reprieve from the humidity, lucky us!
Kudos to United Radio for making that used cluster look brand new – and kudos to you for giving the owner a ding-free experience so the audio cues aren't interfering with the horrid front end rattle and the metal-on-glass wiper blade noises. 🙂
Nice seeing that Probe on the lift, happy to see there's a few of them still on the road – and that one looks to be in fantastic condition! I drove an '89 Probe GT Turbo 5-speed and it was quite impressive, once you got used to flipping the toggle switch under the dash for the radiator fan, and the whiplash you'd get from the failing turbo once it spooled past 5 psi. When the turbo worked well, it was a very peppy car, but you had a 1-in-10 chance of that happening. The friend who was buying the car gave it back to the woman she was buying it from once I told her the bucking she was complaining about was the turbo about to fail – the car was overpriced to begin with.
We once had a '94 Probe (naturally-aspirated) as a rental car in Florida, it rode pretty nicely too. Not as nicely as the '93 T-bird we rented the year before, but still a decent ride.
Thanks for the United Radio tip.
I need to send out my 02 mercedes cluster with missing segments in the lcd screens – its dirty connections but im sure they are better at it than i am.
I saw they do rafios too, so they can check out my 79 TA 10th radio
it needs an output amp chip, but an alignment and a cleaning of the 8 yrack wouldnt hurt either. not that i have more than 1 or 2 8 tracks lol. maybe they can add an aux jack.
IS THE repair cheaper than Stellership? How much was it ? Thanks .
Don't have too mow the lawn. My guinea pigs do that for me LOL.
That's just so nice. Thank you again.
An erratic dimg dong is just part of getting old.
Absolutely great diagnosis great shout out to a good company who apparently stands behind what they do very rare hope they keep it up.. Happy customer is a good night sleep 😁.
Dorman makes damn near everything from little doodad clips specific for a random van like 5 people owned to damn manifolds for a mustang.. i wanna see their friggn factory. China or not they have to have one of the most diverse manufacturing plants just under walmarts.. except walmart imports and buys stock, dorman straight up whittles all these parts outta blueprints and pencil sketches or something cuz how they know all the specs (even if off a little here and there)…? Boggles the brain piece…
That really was a cluster fu*k!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AIRBAG LIGHT ? DON'T LEAVE US HANGING.
Nails on a chalkboard, no problem. But wiper blade frame on glass! Ouch.
Thanks for the plug, I might send my original cluster for my Cadillac there. Digital cluster from the 97-99 Devilles are awful
Anyway great video Mr O
Dorman?!!!! NOOOOO!!!!
I have a company in Mount Olive that fixes them while I wait but that's only because I have to drive 1.3 hrs to get there
Dorman?!!!! NOOOOO!!!!
Sweet I love the video I did not even know there was a company out there who could do that stuff that's dang cool thank you so much
What happened to the hard rocking driving music?
Good to have a ccompany you can depend on and can even talk to a person
Called it in the first videos knew the 5 dings was due to the inop airbag lamp
The folks in the shop that do the dash repairs, they are a vanishing breed. Thanks for being real UNITED RADIO , and SMAR
Nice.
So the vehicles real have a cluster f… issue going on with them🤣.
And Eric as someone who has been watching your channel for years don't be hard on yourself you have forgotten more knowledge than I've ever learnt in my life time. You sir a fantastic mechanic.
No rain for three in half months down in south Texas all tho I wish it rained here all tho
You da man Mr. O. Love your channel
Hello Mr o. My crown Vic has so many miles it decided to hide them. The LED display died several years ago I bet you you're cluster guy can fix it thanks for the heads up man I didn't know there were people like that thank you. It's a super common crown Vic problem you probably know that I'm not insulting you you're awesome by the way where is Mrs o in this video sir
Whats the average cost of cluster repair compared to oem replacement?
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Another great vidio
There is one guy that works on Ford, one guy that works on GM. What does that tell you? 🤣🤣🤣 Quality parts these OEs are using eh?
I call it the "alarm clock" dinger. There's the seat belt bell, and then that problem child was the "alarm clock' dinger— because it reminds me of an old radio alarm clock that I used to use.
good job ! it's time to harvest your Garlic ! Just a thought
You were 2 miles from my house and didnt even drop by for a visit. GEEEEEEE
Not sure if it applies to this vehicle but on some vehicles if the air bag warning lamp circuit is faulty there is a chime that sounds to indicate an air bag fault. Info is hard to find in service information.
Fuel pump driver motor.. Or whatever ford calls it is the number one problem I've had the those trucks.
what happened about the airbag light ? and how long did the cluster repair take ?
Thank you.
As usual thry don't have that kind of service near me so I usually have to go to the car wreckers or the local buy/swap &sell to get those types of product ,they say we're the lucky country ,lucky for what ? Thanks Eric your videos are the best (The old Aussie wrencher ).
I think the old judo chop would have fixed this, no parts required!
Seriously though, United Radio is awesome, I had to send my IP there once when my odometer area went completely blank, sounds like this IP was in WAY worse shape, though.
it's a ford, drive it to the junk yard and leave it there
Your off-the-cuff singing is entertaining, dont stop. But ummm, dont quit the day job 🙂
You’re so right about Ford instrument panels going wonky. But not just limited to the F150s. I owned a 2008 Taurus with the same issue and when I took it into the dealership to get it repair they told me instrument panel issues were all too common
thanks, Eric, for the finish on this one. And kudos to United Radio. Thank you SMA!
If I remember correctly the 2nd generation Ford Probe sourced both their engines from Mazda. Probably why there is aftermarket valve covers because Mazda used that powertrain in about half their line up. Mid 2000s mustangs had clusters that also sucked. Always enjoy your videos.
Wow, had no idea the cluster was tampered by someone else.
But they are DORMAN covers. 🤮🤮🤮
Nice fix, Eric. I hope you found time to address all their safety problems. Those Wipers were horrendous.
used to be a united radio out of rochester dad would get his electronic(tube tv and radio/phono) parts. i wonder if its the same place.
send some rain to Texas
How can I find someone local to fix a Cluster?
“great Vid”
Nice call and nice job as usual!
Love the fast motion driving
Great video as always Dr. O! Glad to hear you got some rain. I hadn't mowed our yard for about five weeks, we were getting pretty dry here in the 317 as well.
No rain in four weeks! I wish we had rain every four weeks and not every six months!
Nothing better than opening a few cv boxes and watching Mr O do his work.
I've encountered this issue many times. Usually, I'll just take the cluster out back and step on it. Works every time the sixty percent I've tried it.
Pleasure as always Mr.O
Nice Job Mr. O
Good rule, especially with automatic transmissions!!!!!
lol the blinker at high speed sounds like a rodent chewing something
We haven't seen rain in the part of Northern Nevada that I live in for around 8 months.
Excellent, fixed something instead of buying a piece of crap and adding the old one to the garbage heap.
Looks like you have all of the broken vehicles in town at your shop. Well maybe it's all the of the broken vehicles in town the other shops can't fix. 👍
You should have you tool holder with a clip for the on the go mechanic.
You should have said that United Radio wasn't a sponsor but who knows for sure. Happy to see the job completed
Woohoo part 2! Love it when i get to watch you more than once in a week! Great job, as always. Love from AZ ❤
send some rain down to Texas
I was somewhat surprised you didnt dig in to the beep code from part one of the video. The 5 long beeps indicated either a pressure tire warning or an Air bag faulty light warning/ SRS (safety restraint system).
But your diagnostics was so good, repairing the cluster repaired the annoying 5 beeps and everything that went with it.
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What a cluster
Same problem with mk2 focus 05 – 11 here In the UK cluster needing resolder , all sorts of beeps or straight down no start
Another Great Job.
As much as I wanted you to look at the gauges a little closer, you did make the right call in sending it out. Too bad you couldn't send it over to the jeffescortlx channel so we could see it being repaired.
Do they do all makes, or just Ford and GM? I wish I'd known about them last year when we had a cluster issue on the Chrysler.