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Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra Interior and Dashboard
rocketcityram
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in Chevrolet
Ok, i feel like an idiot and I know I'm not. I recently bought my truck which has the standard solid bench seat. I have no owner's manual. For the life of me, I can not figure out how to get the back of the seat to fold forward/down. I have looked everywhere for a release. It seems aparent that it should fold because it will move back and forth a little bit until it hits a stop. Can anyone help me? Thank you.
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I have seen people indicate the dealer quotes $500 but I am assuming that is to replace the entire instrument cluster.
Could there be a recall for this?
Anybody relplaced the mirror before? Anybody know where I can get one cheaper?
Anyway, after your vehicle warmed up and the interior warmed up did the instruments etc start working again?
Anyone have any thoughts?
You could pull the dash and go over all the connections and plug-in components but that would probably be an exercise in futility. Best solution would be to put a small electric heater in the cab to keep a reasonable temp in the cab overnight. Then again, unless you are using a engine heater you may well have a problem with the sensors etc under the hood not working until warmed up.
Have you heard any more about this problem since you first posted?
Now we come to the bad news. Through the Chevy dealer here in Tucson it’s about $550.00 to send the gauge cluster off a get it rebuilt. Plus about $100.00 to pull it out and reinstall it. The price was the same at the repair shop that I use. Again according to the blogs on the Internet that’s the common price everywhere.
Now for the not great news, but almost good news. As I searched the Internet for information after about 8 hours I found Tom Jeroski at Mr. Whizard Technical Services (yes I know he has an h in wizard it must be the way they spell it in Canada) www.mrwhizard.com/ Toll Free 1 888 803 8523. Tom does flat rate repairs for most electronic gauge clusters. I sent my gauge cluster Mr. Whizard with his supplied prepaid UPS label, which is covered in this flat rate price. Yes that’s right shipping is covered both ways for UPS ground. The only small problem is that it takes two weeks for the round trip. But again the good news is that the truck will run and drive with out the gauge cluster.
On the Mr. Whizard website you will find instructions on how to remove your gauge cluster. I was able to unsnap the dash trim (one piece) and pull my gauge cluster out (the cluster is held in with four 7 mm screws) and put back the dash part in under15 minutes. It was a snap to say the least. lol
The flat rate for my 2003 Chevy Silverado truck was $169.00 US. Tom lives in Canada so you will see an exchange rate thing on your credit card but it still comes down to $169.00 US. By the way Tom did both my gas gauge motor and my speedometer motor for the one flat rate charge. Tom said he likes to replaces the GM speedometer motor because they fail so often.
I put the gauge cluster in today and it works great. Saved $381.00 to 481.00 depending on whether you do the work yourself or not. Now I can go get that GPS unit I wanted.
mirror glass replacement:
http://www.fullsizechevy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175712
Not sure on the cost of the replacement heated/signal
mirror glass. The heated only glass is around $30 with
discount at dealer or try GM parts direct.com......
The crack is a common problem and dealer should fix
if under warranty................
Im supposed to leave town tomorrow on a family thing but the other day my speedometer just died on me and went strait to 0MPH for no reason at all now the crazy thing is when I lay off the gas (or touch the brake) the speedometer acks like it wants to work and the needle jumps up but then the very second it jumps up it drops strait back to 0mph
I took the truck in and the mechanic installed a new sensor but it was still having the same problem (he said he has never seen this type of problem before) so what can I do to get this problem fixed???
any help would be greatly appreciated
Common issue on 03+04 trucks. First post I have
seen on a 99 model..............
Check out http://www.gm-trucks.com or
http://www.fullsizechevy.com
You will prob. find more info. there.........
Mine is making a loud buzzing sound. It started out doing it every couple days but now its all the time. Im getting ready to un plug it. I didnt know it had a fan it until I took it in to the dealer.
They offered to replace it but I said I would wait and see if it stopped. It didnt so Im going to take it in soon.
looking for some in locating a replacement glove compartment door for a brown '89 sliverado.
i'd loaned the vehicle to my bro-in-law, and it came back with the pin hinges on both sides broken off. i found the piece from one side on the floor, but the other side is completely gone. the only thing holding the door up when its open now is the plastice string supports.
i've been looking around in various car part web sites, and have found pretty much everything BUT a glove compartment door. any suggestions?
(i haven't been to a dealer to ask yet either)
okay then...does anyone have an idea about how to repair or replace the hinge pins?
Thanks
Bruce