Monaro - Rear PDC sounder ??
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Behind the driver's side rear passenger card - a slight bugger to access (at least the first time). Rear seat out (top and bottom), then it's possible to get the card out without removing the B-pillar trim, just a bit fiddly with some of the torx head bolts at the bottom IIRC.
I'm on my second sounder unit FWIW.
I'm on my second sounder unit FWIW.
I had to stare at that pic for a bit to determine that wasn't the inside of my car Dan - didn't recognise having taken it and I assume it's your silver car, but looks to have battery (0000 gauge welding cable?) and stereo cables heading to the boot, both of which look very similar to mine!
rix said:
SturdyHSV said:
I removed the annoying buzzer from the dash that beeps about any old pap / changing menus,
where is this?!
Just there
Take the cluster out (couple of screws at the top, couple at the bottom) and unplug at the rear.
Take it apart (some more screws, I forget how many)
On that circuit board, you see the 4 almost circular plastic blocks? They're the actuators for the needles. There's a little circular chappy above right of the left most needle actuator, that's the buzzer.
Now, you can try and be really violent with it to get it off, maybe ram a soldering iron into it and utterly ruin it, that'd do the trick.
Alternatively, you need to de-solder all of the screens (these are the rows of pins behind the screens), remove the screens, and then take the white plastic off the front of the cluster, which allows you to then get to the 2 pins of the buzzer to de-solder that and remove it.
It takes a little while, fortunately I was already in there doing this:
So removing the buzzer wasn't a big deal. You can drive the car just fine without the cluster should there be an emergency and you need it whilst it's in pieces. You might want one of those OBD readers / app for a speedo though!
rix said:
Oh!!
Or I could just live with its pathertic little whines!
Fancy another led project?!!
I hadn't done any soldering before, and beyond that haven't done any again, so I'm not very proficient with the solder sucker. This meant taking the thing apart took me absolutely bloody ages (took me about a week of evenings to do the whole LED job).Or I could just live with its pathertic little whines!
Fancy another led project?!!
With that in mind, I'm not sure I'd want to tackle it again any time soon :/ On top of that, 2 of the LEDs are intermittent, they don't seem to like the cold, so I wouldn't want to do any work for someone else, paid or otherwise, that wasn't 100% reliable
I'll have to take mine apart again some time to fix those LEDs, if I do get quicker at it, I'll certainly consider offering it for others on the forum as I know it looks a bit intimidating! Like I said though, I'd had almost 0 soldering experience and managed it, just took it slowly and watched a couple of youtube how to solder videos just to make sure I was doing it right!
I started on the cheapest stuff to replace or that didn't matter too much, things like the TC button, window switches etc. Then AC unit is great practice for the surface mount stuff, then it's just de-soldering those damn screens that takes all the time!
I've done three clusters at this point...the first took me a few evenings, and the last one about 2-3 hours IIRC. It's one of those nonsense jobs that's very hard to recommend doing and obviously no performance benefit, but with a decent soldering iron it's not too bad. It is a slog though, and if you want it done and want an easy life then consider sending it to Bohnman. If you DIY remember to check the bias voltage on the LEDs to avoid them burning out.
ks with peoples posting "what I am having for tea" 
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