I am a new mustang owner, i have a 2000 mustang GT 4.6
what my problem is my instrument cluster when crazy this morning. i was almost to work and everything was fine i saw my battery light flickering but my gauges were saying the battery and everything else was fine. mind you i just bought the car about a week ago and it had a bad battery in it so i bought a new from the parts store.
So back to my problem my gauges just stopped working they went all to the bottom of each one and then my actual lights on met dash got brighter. so i turned them off and back on and my tach gauge worked for a second then nothing. car was still running nothing wrong there. i got to the parking lot of my job turned the car off popped the hood and checked the battery everything was still tight so no problems there. haven't had time to go out and look at the fuses yet.
So my illumination lights work but my gauges are not working.
quick update i change my battery as it had vented and i figured was the cause of the instrument cluster failure. which it was not.
upon putting the new battery in and starting the car, the gauges still are intermittent so if its idling and the ac is on the gauges work also i can turn the ac off they will keep working. but if any rpms above 1500 they turn back off and take about 120 seconds to turn back on.
checked all fuses and nothing all fuses were just fine.
if anyone has any idea i could really use the help.
Thanks in advance
what my problem is my instrument cluster when crazy this morning. i was almost to work and everything was fine i saw my battery light flickering but my gauges were saying the battery and everything else was fine. mind you i just bought the car about a week ago and it had a bad battery in it so i bought a new from the parts store.
So back to my problem my gauges just stopped working they went all to the bottom of each one and then my actual lights on met dash got brighter. so i turned them off and back on and my tach gauge worked for a second then nothing. car was still running nothing wrong there. i got to the parking lot of my job turned the car off popped the hood and checked the battery everything was still tight so no problems there. haven't had time to go out and look at the fuses yet.
So my illumination lights work but my gauges are not working.
quick update i change my battery as it had vented and i figured was the cause of the instrument cluster failure. which it was not.
upon putting the new battery in and starting the car, the gauges still are intermittent so if its idling and the ac is on the gauges work also i can turn the ac off they will keep working. but if any rpms above 1500 they turn back off and take about 120 seconds to turn back on.
checked all fuses and nothing all fuses were just fine.
if anyone has any idea i could really use the help.
Thanks in advance