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Old 02-07-2016, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott ZHP View Post
Replaced the ribbon cable in my head-unit this afternoon. I bought the solder-in style from someone in Canada for about $25. Directions said 3 hours start to finish and that was fairly accurate. I finally have all of the pixels working again.

Hopefully this is a one time job; it's tedious to get the unit apart.
Had mine open too this week - got a couple of rows coming and going. Put a tiny amount of contact treatment into joints and it seems to have cured it for now. We'll see...

BTW, be careful of the Pelican Parts description of how to remove the MID from the dash - it's very wrong. Thank goodness I always cross reference stuff I read on the 'net!
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