Banzay

And here I post again. I am able to fix one more thing (or two) with the help of our coleague Dave, to whom I am grateful for all the help. Thus I now have a working dash and... lights on the buttons right of the steering wheel. Still a lot of work left with this car and even though was on the road daily, I want to partialy retire it, problem is I'm running out of parking places. since I took the dash out, I observed a "minus one" ABS light bulb; combine that with a frayed left wheel ABS sensor cable. My imediate conclusion => ABS has a problem, now with the new dash with the bulb in place, that was confirmed. Will read the codes soon, but I guess it's not a big surprise if both the front sensors are bad. Even though I got a full box of vehicle history with maintenance and preventive care, I still find some things that were just covering problems. The first was the problem with the headlights and tail lights - fuse was out -> because of the light switch. Second with the abs. Hope I'll not find more

Seems that our esteemed colleague was kind enough to help me with those two parts that I needed... Chapeaux Mister! Meanwhile, I got a mail from ERG power saying that they do have this part in stock (the pink inverters) but it seems a bit pricey. I do not know if the deal is for the 4 for 100 (if I remember right) or only 1 for...100$. I quote: "Repair parts go for $100 +S&H" . Best of luck!

Well, then it seems that it failed the same time... Or to be honest, I do not even remember those lights... Not sure why I was under the impression that those are related. Well was planing on getting a dash too so, can you please send me an email with a total for a dash and a pink inverter?

Dave, thank you! I sent you an email! My wife will be thrilled, she's been driving with a black dash since last week Regards, Andy.

I tried and opened the pink inverter as my dash was not working anymore. I opened the dash first, no signs of burns, tested the inverter, cut the pink plastic, found a snaped solder and some damaged wires of the small transformer. I'll try and come with some pics of the cleaned inverter. I did not get all the caulk off, but does the small transformer have any specs writen on it? I'm not an experienced electrician, but can solder something if I have the piece in front of me :) I can even use the same board... PS: this is my '88 Reatta (we are the same age). It's a Ca car so absolutely no rust, I tried and fixed most of the engine/trans problems, got it up-to-date with the maintenance, fixed some electric problems (including a faulty headlight switch), but still have this dash problem that just came up and faulty headlight motors which I hope I'll fix soon...