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Hi, I've just bought a '93 ZX Reflex 1.9D, and found a huge pile of dashboard lights in the glovebox. Read many stories today of dash lights regularly failing on the ZX. I didn't get a handbook on it, and I'm trying to get a Haynes manual, but in the meantime, does anyone know how to fit all of these? Have any of you done these before. Many thanks, Dom F
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Dom,
Nothing high tech but a fair old fiddle.
Take off the drivers side lower facia cover, the heater duct, the bonnet release catch, the steering wheel, the steering column upper and lower shrouds, fusebox, instrument panel trim & switches, speedo cable and finally the instrument panel.
I think that's it! Good luck.
David W
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Thanks David
It's a wee bit bigger job than I'd thought. Perhaps I'll let my garage handle this one! Thanks anyway, Dom F
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Sorry David,
I know you are infinitely more experience than I but I have replaced all the dashboard lights on my ZX only removing the steering wheel and the upper and lower shrouds. I even read on Andyspares website that someone had managed to do it without removing the steering wheel, just setting it to the lowest level. Once the shrouds are off you have access to the switch panel screws and then ultimately the dash is removeable.
Humphrey
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No problem Humphrey. You are right it is sometimes possible to omit parts of the prep work. It seems to vary from car to car as to the amount of slack in the wiring and speedo cable.
As folks are paying me to do the job I have to get it "right first time" so I may take the longer route to replace all the bulbs.
I have a fear of short cuts that involve any strain to plastic trim or printed circuit boards on customers cars!!
Your advice is sound for the DIY route.
Thanks.
David W
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I agree that the hardest part of the job is replacing the speedo cable. Something that I only managed to do properly i.e. stop it clicking, when I did the heater matrix last week. Phew what a job!
Mechanics is like surgery in that respect, the 3 most important things for orthopaedic surgery, exposure, exposure, exposure!
Humphrey
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Hm, I've always chickened out with these lamps. I once had a Marina (don't laugh) where over 50% of them had blown, and that was one to defintely leave alone.
The Citroen C15 van doesn't have them, and I've taken to carrying a torch to shine onto the dashboard - works well enough. Funny, though - my youngest son's Porsche 944 has a few lamps not working on the dash switches. He's going to live with the problem too.
Ian Cook
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Maybe they fail more often because, unlike other cars, they're on all the time. You may also find that you have a bad connection, mine seem to fail them resurrect themselves at will.
Humpy
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