Dash stays completely lit up?
Thread Starter
Intermediate
Joined: Jan 2022
Posts: 25
Likes: 0
From: Savannah, GA
Dash stays completely lit up?
Okay if you look at my previous posts you will notice I'm not the most handy when it comes to these things, I'm trying to learn though. Recently my passenger window got stuck at the bottom, I tore open the door panel and saw that I needed to replace the regulator ribbon, in the process I disconnected a few wires. The next day it didn't start so I took the battery in and I must've drained it really bad cause the people at autozone couldn't even recharge it. Reconnected the wires I thought I disconnected, may have accidently ripped a wire clean off cause it was causing tension between the door and the panel. Eventually put everything back together, with a new battery and it fired up just fine dash and all.
I let it sit for about two days and now when I turn the key it's like I can watch the power flow through the dash and the radio as it turns on and then the dash just stays completely full like gas gauge, mph, revs everything completely full and it won't go away and Im to scared to just drive it to see if that fixes it. Does anyone know what this is?
I let it sit for about two days and now when I turn the key it's like I can watch the power flow through the dash and the radio as it turns on and then the dash just stays completely full like gas gauge, mph, revs everything completely full and it won't go away and Im to scared to just drive it to see if that fixes it. Does anyone know what this is?
Thread Starter
Intermediate
Joined: Jan 2022
Posts: 25
Likes: 0
From: Savannah, GA
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o4S...ew?usp=sharing
Here is a link to a video I took of it, might be hard to see because of the sun though
Here is a link to a video I took of it, might be hard to see because of the sun though
Le Mans Master
Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 9,061
Likes: 214
From: Epping NH
I tore open the door panel and saw that I needed to replace the regulator ribbon, in the process I disconnected a few wires. The next day it didn't start so I took the battery in and I must've drained it really bad cause the people at autozone couldn't even recharge it.
Thread Starter
Intermediate
Joined: Jan 2022
Posts: 25
Likes: 0
From: Savannah, GA
Update on this post, the alternator ended up being bad, which was replaced including its connections. Its only been running for a day but it also got a new battery so it will at least allow me to identify if there is something else wrong with it. The dash still is not working properly however and looks like a technological eldritch horror every time I turn the car on. When I get a chance Im going to drop it off at a specialty shop because I want to knock out a few other problems (Bad shake when in 4th gear overdrive while accelerating, rear main seal leak loses abt 1.5qt a week, fuel gauge always reads full or 3/4 no matter how much fuel I have, passenger window motor track, and anything else he finds) Thanks for the help!
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
Top 10 Most Expensive Corvettes Ever Sold on Bring A Trailer
Brett Foote
10 Things Every Corvette Owner Needs (2026 Edition)
Michael S. Palmer
8 Most "Only Corvette Owners Understand" Quirks and Problems
Pouria Savadkouei
10 Reasons the C6 Z06 is Still A Performance Benchmark After 20 Years
Joe Kucinski
How Much Horsepower Every Corvette Engine "LOST" in 1972
Joe Kucinski
Top 10 DOs and DON'Ts for Protecting Your Convertible Top!
Michael S. Palmer
Top 10 Most Explosive Corvettes Ever Made: Power-to-Weight Ratio Ranked!
Joe Kucinski
150 hp to 1,250 hp: Every Corvette Generation Compared by the Specs That Matter
Joe Kucinski