Electrical Gremlins - symptoms and how to fix
well after some thought, Im not comfortable enough to do the cutting / soldering, so I bought some electric cleaner, dielectric grease and am going to clean and all that business, then silicone the crap out of the grommet at the POE for water / moisture. I can cut and solder, but what I dont feel comfortable with at this point is compromising all the wiring in the car just for the sake of 5 or 6 corroded connections. I'll post up the end result and see where it leads me...may end up doing the cutting and soldering in the end...
Last edited by ohEVO18; Jan 11, 2010 at 10:20 AM.
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This may work out for you but just as a heads up as I started cutting and stripping away I did notice that there was corrosion on some of the wires up quite a bit so I ended up stripping back at some wires an inch of insulation before I found no corrosion
Just some FYI.
It's not a hard job to hard solder just time consuming
Just some FYI.
It's not a hard job to hard solder just time consuming
yeah i know, I just have this fear of somehow jacking something up elsewhere in the car...I'm going to see how cleaning it does, and if not then I will start hard soldering them together....
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Dealer wanted way too much. Bodyshop charged me 60
well all of the issues have been worked out. simply cleaned all of the connections, save one in which I had to actually wire it...Dash lights are not working (needles etc.) and the headlamp leveling switch, and I think it may be a fuse..I'll deal with it tomorrow though. At least its running and things seem to be functioning properly...
Lots of good information here.
I actually have an issue with mine. Picked it up 6/2009 and was driving to indiana for my first track day, it was raining pretty hard, I took a hard right onto an upward incline, and I felt water spalsh on my legs.......(wearing shorts) I was freaked out, but I put my hand under the dash to the right and felt water on top of the white box(don't recall what it is).....
I haven't had a chance to look but i assume a grommet is missing....or there's a bad seal, too
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I actually have an issue with mine. Picked it up 6/2009 and was driving to indiana for my first track day, it was raining pretty hard, I took a hard right onto an upward incline, and I felt water spalsh on my legs.......(wearing shorts) I was freaked out, but I put my hand under the dash to the right and felt water on top of the white box(don't recall what it is).....
I haven't had a chance to look but i assume a grommet is missing....or there's a bad seal, too
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i never once recall any water or dampness in the past, but I have had issues with my compustar for about a year and a half now and am assuming it has been caused by this. It makes me nervous as hell since I know Mits would probably take cash credit or rights to an arm or leg to fix this issue if I cant. It seems like MANY other members have had this same issue, and all been able to fix it, I just hope I can get this dash light and level switch figured out tomorrow. We shall see. Best of luck to you (^^) in finding out what your issue is - water splashing on your leg makes it sound like there is a gaping black hole under there somewhere lmao...
Water to the right of yur feet as you drive is a whole other issue. All our issues are coming from the left side of the drivers feet.
I would have stopped right where the water hit my feet and I would've tracked that down ASAP.
I have many issues though.
Right I gotcha but water wasn't at my feet it splashed my leg. The ws just a tad bit of water on top of the white box behind the hvac controls.
is it possible that it was simply some condensation build-up or something of the sort, from the HVAC? I know those they have drains / run-off's somewhere I would have to assume. Maybe it's something clogged or, well I really dont know what I am talking about so I will shut-up lmao







