NorCalNorse
New LVC Member
Hi everyone - hoping to get some advice on a strange issue.
I have a 2002 LS going on 400k miles. Its been mine since she was a young thing at 30k. I have had to take care of many an issue over the years. Used to be able to care of her a lot better, but finances have prevented me from doing some things.
This one thing has had to do with the ABS/ATrac/Brake warning lights that came on about two years ago during a heavy rainy season here in Nor California. These came on while driving, along with the Speedometer not working. i would get to my destination and turn car off for awhile, Get back in and all would be well for awhile. About 15 minutes of driving and the same thing would happen. This went on intermittently for a couple months, and then the lights would never go off and the speedometer never worked again. This also meant that my mileage indicator flatlined, along with the milage until out of gas etc. stopped working - which made sense since the speedometer was not working. Never noticed any issues with driving, just the annoying warning lights staring at me and no speedometer. Mechanic said don't worry about as long as I was ok with it - just did not have the $$ to spend cuz of new wife and the four kids i took on, college for two of them etc. I just figured I would keep driving until she would not go anymore.
Fast forward to about a month ago - while starting my car all of a sudden the warning lights were gone and the speedometer started to work - for about 5 to 10 seconds - all while the Adv. Trac light would go on and off repeatedly - and then back to warning lights back on and no speedometer. This has now happened about four times the past month. Why would it want to start working out of no where???!! It literally has not worked AT ALL for these past years.
Is it trying to revive itself back to life? Does this indicate that is issue could possibly be a simple as a fuse? Bad wiring??
Back when I contacted my mechanic he thought the entire cluster had to be replaced (one reason I did not try to get fixed - that was costly and no guarantee to fix). But now Im wondering if something else is going on. Like a Ghost is tampering with it.
A bit of info - back when this started during heavy rains, I had just gotten the notorious water leak from the sun roof that leaked a lot of water down my passenger A frame.
Thoughts anyone? If a module, why would it want to start working again, all but for a few seconds, out of nowhere after such a long time? WIERD!!
I have a 2002 LS going on 400k miles. Its been mine since she was a young thing at 30k. I have had to take care of many an issue over the years. Used to be able to care of her a lot better, but finances have prevented me from doing some things.
This one thing has had to do with the ABS/ATrac/Brake warning lights that came on about two years ago during a heavy rainy season here in Nor California. These came on while driving, along with the Speedometer not working. i would get to my destination and turn car off for awhile, Get back in and all would be well for awhile. About 15 minutes of driving and the same thing would happen. This went on intermittently for a couple months, and then the lights would never go off and the speedometer never worked again. This also meant that my mileage indicator flatlined, along with the milage until out of gas etc. stopped working - which made sense since the speedometer was not working. Never noticed any issues with driving, just the annoying warning lights staring at me and no speedometer. Mechanic said don't worry about as long as I was ok with it - just did not have the $$ to spend cuz of new wife and the four kids i took on, college for two of them etc. I just figured I would keep driving until she would not go anymore.
Fast forward to about a month ago - while starting my car all of a sudden the warning lights were gone and the speedometer started to work - for about 5 to 10 seconds - all while the Adv. Trac light would go on and off repeatedly - and then back to warning lights back on and no speedometer. This has now happened about four times the past month. Why would it want to start working out of no where???!! It literally has not worked AT ALL for these past years.
Is it trying to revive itself back to life? Does this indicate that is issue could possibly be a simple as a fuse? Bad wiring??
Back when I contacted my mechanic he thought the entire cluster had to be replaced (one reason I did not try to get fixed - that was costly and no guarantee to fix). But now Im wondering if something else is going on. Like a Ghost is tampering with it.
A bit of info - back when this started during heavy rains, I had just gotten the notorious water leak from the sun roof that leaked a lot of water down my passenger A frame.
Thoughts anyone? If a module, why would it want to start working again, all but for a few seconds, out of nowhere after such a long time? WIERD!!