Instrument Cluster Repair - 2003-2006 5.3L Chevy Silverado (Sierra, Tahoe, Yukon, etc.)
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- On this episode of Fear No Fix, Chris repairs the Instrument Cluster in a 5.3L Chevrolet Silverado (model years 2003-2006 classic).
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* Fix may also apply to the following vehicles:
1999 - 2002 GMC Sierra
2002 - 2002 Cadillac Escalade
2000 - 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe
2000 - 2002 GMC Yukon
2000 - 2002 Chevrolet Suburban
2001 - 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche
2003 - 2007 Silverado Classic
2003 - 2007 Sierra Classic 
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Omg. Thanks it worked and trust me I'm not the best at soldering 👍👍
Gotta be better than me!
Lo MO
What type of solder?
@@blackerdenblack1 I used the one that came with my soldering gun
Here's the limit of my mechanic skills: I know how to drive my car to the auto-repair shop! I just did the fix on my 2002 Avalanche. Once I bought a cheap soldering iron and solder ($22 bucks at NAPA parts), it was pretty easy and saved me--who knows?--probably hundreds of dollars. In fact, for one of the seven resistors, when I touched one end of it with the soldering iron, it came clean off and I had to reposition with tweezers before soldering. I am 63 with hands that are getting shaky with age, haven't soldered anything since cub scouts. THANKS, BLUEDRIVER--I'm now a subscriber to your channel.
Hahaha hey the same thing happened to me just now! I’m 62 and also a bit shaky. I dabbed some solder on those points and it worked! These guys are life savers!
I thought I'd be mailing it off for repair at 130.00 ..price I've seen on a few videos but thanks to these guys I'm going to do it myself as soon as it's light out . I sprayed Wire Dryer all in the headlight switch box because light did whatever they felt like ..I had little control ..the spray worked .
What wire did you use?
U MADE MY DAY....I HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH THIS PROBLEM FOR 6 YEARS.
In the Marine Corps I used to repair stuff like this, best skill I ever learned lol. Thank you.
semper fi brother! dam jarhead! lol!!
I’ve put up with intermittent gauges for over 3 years now. Then they stopped altogether. I watched this a long time ago and then again a few times this week. This solved the problem and I really want you to know that I’m Extremely grateful to y’all. May the God of your choice bless you with a million good fortunes! My baby is a 2003 Avalanche Z66.
Job completed, PRNDL is now brightly illuminated; thanks for a well-done video! Additional advice: 1. File your soldering iron to a tiny point if it's not already; those resistors are tiny. 2. Record precisely the original position of each needle (with masking tape and a precise marker) and HOLD IT in that original position as you gently pry it up upwards with a flat bladed screwdriver. Despite marking the position of each one, I must have rotated the stepper motors as I pulled up on the needles to remove them. I had to disconnect the cluster from the truck 4 more times, removing the needles and reinstalling them, to get the gauges reading normal (and I'm still not sure they're exactly right.) Thus, advice #3: Record the original reading of each needle with the engine running (tachometer at idle, oil pressure, battery charge, fuel gauge, and coolant temp) before you start the job.
Seems like they'd instruct people to put it back together without the front plastic on, connect it, set it in place, and test it. If the needles are incorrect, just pop them off with the ignition on but not running, and make sure everything is zero... Only seems logical. And I'd almost guarantee you that they did that... rather than assemble the entire dash, THEN check it.
@@bbushong67 I just did this today and that is how I got the gauges all dialed in correctly and my Shift position indicator works again. Thank You
Wish I'd read that bit about the masking tape before I did the job! Ah, try and repeat. happy to say all the gauges are working again and I'm thrilled to see what gear I'm in. Haven't had this working since we bought the truck 7 years ago. First time soldering electronics too. Very helpful video. Thanks!
This is a great tip, masking tape and a pen will save some inaccuracies later on. Also, a fork from your cutlery drawer works well to remove those gauge needles without rotating the stepper motor shafts....
IT WORKED! Key is to have a small solder tool. Thanks for the repair guide. Took about 1 hour altogether.
Saw your video and promptly fixed mine. It’s been broken for years. Thank you so much for making an excellent video that is perfectly accurate and shows you what to expect before you even start.
Wow! It worked perfectly on our GMC Yukon XL. We were having trouble seeing the PRNDL, but now it is really bright! Thanks!
If your cluster is not working at all check the 240 resistors they're directly above the speedometer on the right hand side that did it for me thank you for all your help guys appreciate it
i found this video, the PRND indicator hasn't worked on my tahoe since i bought it, i have been putting off replacement due to cost, i tried your directions, sadly when i opened it up i can't see any breaks in the solder and not discolored, so i thought oh well, might as well try since it's open.... re-soldered, reassembled, retested, and BANG it works perfectly now! you guys are awesome i thank you very much!
I have never seen a more perfect instructional video. Thanks, guys.
Literally never soldered anything before. But with all your steps, it worked! $12 repair with a soldering kit from Amazon. Thank you!
thank you for the info. yideo and a big thank you for keeping it on point......others want to tell about the wife...., well the weather out side....., the wife's mother....., the ol' dogs in the corner...., etc, etc,...you did a great job and kept it on point. thank you again for the info. i can only hope others well see just how to do "informative videos" the right way, thank you again for the info.
Ha ha ha! So true! I just fast-forwarded through a guy who got sidetracked and washed his car on video before showing the repair! 😂😂😂
I just repaired our 2003 2500 Avalanche. My soldering skills are not that great, but following the directions made easy work the problem.
The visual at 4:33 was perfect. Found two instances of that. Reflowed both and all is well. Thanks!
This is a great help. 2005 Yukon and three gauges in cluster died. This helped me remove cluster from a parts 2004 Yukon and install in the 2005. was done in less than hour. shows tools and even how to unplug the the cluster. Will review again if I need to re solder the old one. Takes the fear away. Thanks guys. awesome.
Thanks for the video. This will save me some money. I thought i had to replace the whole thing. My PRNDL beenngoing dim for a while. Can barely see in the night and not at all during the day. I needed this fixed asap. I have two teenagers ready to drive.
I sent this vid to my son who had this issue with his 04 Suburban with 400k + and it worked perfectly. Thank you!!!
Thanks guys! You saved alot time for me, i allready broke my brain with this odo display, checked all harness, and it was just clusler capacitors...
This is the seventh RUclips video I've watched on this issue. This is by far the best. I'm on this tomorrow morning!
The others are mostly good, a few are horrible. This is the answer for sure!
This is an excellent video. I have been dealing with not been able to see the gear shift symbols for about 10 years on my 03 Avalanche and stumbled across this video. Re-soldered the resistors and amazing. Well done! Thank you so much! I will add that the resistors seem like they just float on the board and they do move fairly easy once heated, so do not use any pressure or force when soldering.
Thank you so much for this video ! Saved me a lot of money ! Tried this fix and it works perfectly ! So gratefull to guys like you who share their knowledge and help out other DIY's !
Excellent tutorial - helped me fix intermittent issues with dash lights on my 2003 Chevy Silverado (and also fixed my speedometer and RPM gauges that had been broken forever by replacing the stepper motors.) One thing I missed - my solder was too large a gauge - got the job done but realized this video shows using a _much_ thinner solder wire than I had. Got the job done, but would have been much easier with a thinner wire. Was also my first real soldering DIY!
Did this fix backlighting issues? I'm having issues where all of my gauges work, but my backlights are out. Swapped the light switch thinking that might be the culprit, but still have not back lights to the cluster.
@@bclarkgsr It did for me - I followed the steps in this RUclips video - starting at 4:20 - the resistors they pointing out - I had some obvious and some barely noticeable cracks. I resoldered them and it work perfectly to fix my backlight issue. As I mention, I wished I had thinner solder. It's a thin and tiny solder job.
Hi. I had a problem with the speedometer reading erratically or not at all on my 2003 GMC Sierra. I used your video to take out and repair the cluster by soldering the resisters as you indicated and it seems to have worked just fine. Thank you for saving me at least $600.00 Canadian! You guys are great, keep it up!
Worked great, would only add having tweezers on hand because as I touched one it came off completely so I had to get tweezers to hold it in place to solder. Thanks a million guys, keep up the good work
I had the same problem with my dash cluster. Thank you. I repaired it myself. It was a success.
Wow! It actually worked!!!! My cluster is back! I do suggest a lighted magnifying glass when doing this. Those chips are no where near as big as they looked in the video. I was able to remove and resolder the connections, and my PRNDL is back along with all my gauges. Nice to see how fast your going, and how much gas you have. Excellent video.
Thanks guys, I will be doing this in the morning. So far your vid was clearest and cleanest. Thank you.
How did it go?
This was easy and it took me about 30 min to do. I'm a female and I know a little about trucks from my husband and I was able to do this on my own with your instructional vid. Thanks😁❤
Wow! Excellent video. So glad I stumbled upon this segment. My gear selector display hasn’t worked in years. I wish I would’ve known this a long time ago. Thanks for sharing some inexpensive knowledge.
Excellent Fix, my Cousin's Avalanche had that Problem, thanks to this Video I was Able to Repair her Truck!
THANKS😉💪
2005 Silverado at first with only a magnifying glass couldn't see the solder cracks but upon looking harder they were there. Soldered as you demonstrated and it was successful. Thank you so much! Best GM instrument cluster fix on the internet!
Thank you so much. I did basic continuity checks on the wires and things looked good. Nothing on the board looked fried but this had me look closer. I ended up finding cracked solder joints on many of the big smd resistors all over the board. Cracked conformal coating was a big tipoff to many of them.
My husband and I can't even find one anywhere around our town to replace it with I got online and you can't even find them they're out of stock he's currently inside the junkyard and I'm in the car watching videos trying to find a way around this issue and I could do this repair I wouldn't even have to ask him to do it you guys are awesome thank you
I do these for a living. It's not as easy as they make it out be at all. There are several other problems that these clusters suffer from as well. The biggest thing is "properly recalibrating the needles. The way they explained it would not get them even close to being correctly calibrated. The circuit board is very easy to damage and if you do, well good luck. Hope this helps
Don’t buy a new one or a junkyard one, there are companies you can send it to, have if repaired for 250$ and they sent it back the same business day.
Thank you! I plan to do this fix over the Thanksgiving break. It was super helpful to see exactly what I need to do!
Now there is someone who really knows how to make a repair easy to understand.
This worked for my 2005 Chevy Silverado today. Thank you so much! I had never soldered before but it didn’t take much to learn the concept. Cheap fix!
Yet another great instructional video. Worked great on my '05 Silverado. Hard to see that the resistors solder had cracked w/o a magnifying glass, however it was pretty obvious after melting the old solder on one side, some of them started sliding around all over the place! Thanks again!
I replaced all of the stepper motors in my cluster, not realizing this was all I needed to do to get my PRNDL display back to normal. It looks like the cluster will be coming back out tonight and doing what you guys did. Fingers 🤞 that it will be better instead of worse when I'm done!!
Thanks for the video guys.
This was the fix on my 2004 Silverado 2500HD Duramax. Thank you!
I have a 2004 Chevy Silverado too would it work on mine my whole dash just went out
You solved the problem I was having simply by showing how to remove the gauge needles. All the other videos I've seen skip showing that... so thank you for including it because it's the same even though I was working on a honda. 👍
I just finished to fix mine, great video. Thank you!!!!👍👍👍
Thank You! It worked on my 2005 Suburban. Appreciate the help!
thank you best cluster repair ive seen so far .. thank you guys !!
Thank you
This worked like a charm for me ... thx so much guys. Great fix.
Easy to do and now my instrument cluster works. Thanks for the video.
this is great , great , great saving my Christmas money thanks guys.
I was having issues with my gauge cluster intermittently working, then it seemed to finally die. Resoldering the resistors fixed the issue, thanks for putting this video out
Just watched this video and did this repair, worked perfect. Thank you so much for posting this video, saved me tons of time and money!!
Going to attempt this weekend in hopes of it saving me a few hundo on getting it repaired or buying an entire new dash cluster. Thanks for posting!
i watched hours of videos on this subject, this was to the point simply explained, and fairly short... i feel i have the confidence to attempt this now lol
Same here.
Guys awsome video. This video just saved me $150/200 dollars i just took the cluster out right after i watched this and i have a few resistors broken .thanks to you guys i can fix my cluster now and my gauges will work.. money saver video if you have a GMC and garages dont work MUST WATCH THIS VIDOE may save you money as it did for me once a again big thanks guys
Best vid for this repair hands down - easy to follow and worked like a charm! Thanks!
Wow that’s amazing my cluster is doing that now I am going to do this on my own thank Goodness I Can across you guys video is awesome and very explanatory two thumps up !!!
Worked to absolute perfection !! Thanks guys
Excellent. Just the video I was looking for.
Did this on my 04 2500- RND321 is back! Thank you!
From a professional technician you all did an awesome job.
Thank you for making this video!! It worked perfectly. Back up and runnning. You guys are awesome and saved me some money.
Just did this on my 05 Tahoe and it worked perfectly. I had to mess around with needles, but got it working after a couple of tries. Thank for the $$$ saving tip!!
Great to hear, so happy we could help!
Is there a certain way to put back needles? I’m having problems with them staying where they originally were.
Why did you place it completely back together before testing it? The molding is the last thing to replace after it has been tested... I learned something new thank you...
Thanks for the video, needed to clean up the glass in the face of the unit and your demonstration was awesome. Thank you.
You guys rule... thanks for doing what you do... appreciate it...
Worked like a charm. Thank you
Just took mine apart today, found 5 resistors that had solder joints that needed to be re flowed. Took 5 mins, works like a charm now!!
Thank you. Did this and some of my instruments came back to life. Did have a green rubber piece, brass ring and white looking cap fall out and don’t know where the belong but thanks again
I'll try this repair later on my Chevy '05. Great video ... simple instructions great results!!
great viideo, followed insructions and now my prndl light works. saved all kinds of money.
Thank you. Worked for me. Had to take a pic with my phone and enlarge to see cracks in the solder, but there were cracks. Not the best soldering job, but it worked.
No lights or gauges showed up on my dash cluster. I fixed it in about an hour and cost about $25 for the soldering iron. Thanks guys
Thanks for this video , the shop quoted me about 600 + for a bad speedo, oil and water temp , I fixed all three for about 15 bucks ,,,,, nice job !!!!
Thanks for showing this. Wish me luck it maybe a while before I jump on it but this will save me butt loud of money.👍✌
AMAZING! Thanks for this!
This worked for my 2004 Duramax. Thanks
Great job guys!!!
The best video ever God blessed for shearing this will save people’s money keep up with your good work
Awesome presentation, thank you
Thank you for the video. I soldered my broken 511 resistor connections and I had immediate gear indicator.
Thank you guys it worked out beautifully!
Very Nice tech help. Simple solution to a GM created issue! Thank You
Wow that grey clip was hard needed screw driver, awesome video thanks guys.
Excellent video! Fixed the problem. Thank you!
Thanks - great video. Fixed my annoying PRNDL display. Its pretty incredible how many of these GM instrument clusters seem to fail. (Love my 04 Yukon except for that!)
Thank you for sharing this guide!
Thank you! helped me fix my truck
You Legends! Thanks for a great video, worked a treat! Gained a new subscriber fellas!
Just fixed my 05 Tahoe. Besides the low light on PRND321, I had all random warning lights, gauges going to 0 etc. Awesome tip! THANKS!!!!!
CaptainET53, was yours just dimming? Mine seems to be dim and before I attempt this I'm wondering if that's how yours was?
Rob G
It was normal for years. Then at some point you could not see the gear selection in the day time. Other lights dim fine.
You need to mention for everyone they need to use an electrical solder and not one for plumbing (water) ....Great video
If someone chooses a torch I hope they make a video and post it . I've been told plastic melts ...that'd fix it !
I hear you, but... anyone who didn't already know that probably shouldn't be attempting this procedure... j/s 😆
Thanks guys that helped me out a lot do appreciate it
Nice video guys, thanks!
Great video and very helpful.
Just accomplished this thanks to you guys!!!
Now I know what my issue is, Helpful video 👍🏻
Thanks for the video. Touched first side of third resister I went to resolder and it popped off. Other side was cracked. All working well now Thanks again.
Nice man, Im in the process of replacing the turn signal switch cause my cruise control went out. Thanks for the video
@F RR I did fix the cluster lights but the cruise control is still out. I replaced the brake switch as well and still no bueno☹
Good job guys thank you very much was very easy thank you again
Everything is great he said! You forgot to pull the bulb for the check engine light and pull the solder off the sensor for the air bag. Geeze this was the least of this trucks problem that also needs an oil change lmao.
All kidding aside. Great video. Wish i seen this years ago when i owned these trucks.
I'm about to do this repair and if I can get to that air bag light , It's History
this is absolutely helpful. thankyou
Liked and subscribed! This is exactly the issue I'm having, and I know I can do this repair. Like Alejandro, my soldering skills aren't the best, but I think I can probably not screw this up. Maybe.