Ok guys. this is my opinion on an experience I have had with a company, so take it of leave it, but please feel free to reply about your experiences (both good and bad.)

Four months ago, I sent my digital cluster in to Bob Perkins of Advanced Electronics in AZ. He repaired my dash and sent it back and it didn't work. I sent it back to him at my expense. He sent it back to me and it still didn't work. I, thinking that it was a problem with my car's wiring and not the dash spent four months and lots of money (including a 30 dollar call to Gordon Killebrew) trying to fix it. All to no avail. I finally took the car to a mechanic I know and he said there was nothing wrong with the car wiring. He got my permission to send the cluster to a place in dallas to have it tested. They said there was definitely something wrong with the cluster and that as a matter of fact it was a horrid job of repairing. They said there were burnt sauters and bad connections. They said that one of the circuit boards were trashed. Mr. Perkins stated that he knows how to repair a dash and that in a 20 year old piece of electronics there might be something missed. That's all fine but I know that when I have something restored I don't want him to just fix what looks like it needs to be fixed, but restore it to factory specs. So I just tell you to beware.

 

The name of the place in Dallas?

Another:
www.corvettedashclusterservice.com

 

I had a good experience with this guy! $225 and he repaired my power supply, checked and redid some solder joints and went over and improved the contact connections. Turn around 1 week

http://www.corvettedashclusterservice.com

 

The place in Dallas is Autocraft. I highly recommend them. They aren't the cheapest (like 385?) but they do a good job, and they are the only place in North Texas that is GM certified.

 

Corvettedashclusterservice/Gene Taber, very good experience. With your experience I hope you asked for your money back!!!!!!!

 

With your experience I hope you asked for your money back!!!!!!!


I did ask for my money back....He stated that I voided the warranty. But I let him know that I'd let all of my vette friends know what his service is like.

 

What a rip off, Gene Taber is one very nice and stand up guy!

His sons own Taber Vette Salvage yard!

 

is most of the problems in solder joint's and connections?????

 

I appreciate the heads up. There's a lot of crappy work that get's passed off asquality & we pay top dollar for it. This forum is a great place to "out" the companies that do bad work.

Thanks.

 

yes, that or the grounds... however in my cluster, the power supply was fried

 

power supply would be a easy test??????

 

Same here,,, bad power supply and crappy contact to plug socket connections

 

if you paid with a credit card call the company and tell them you did not get what was inplied to you and there credit you and go after him

 

The bad thing is.....I paid him on Paypal, but didn't use Ebay. Ebay/Paypal will probably do nothing for me, b/c it found his service on Ebay, but didn't use Ebay.

 

There's a place in Charlotte NC that a friend of mine called and instead of them just telling him to send it down, they told him some things he could check first and he fixed it himself. I think their base price was real reasonable too. If anyone's interested I'll see if I can find out who it was.

 

What is a "sauter"?

 

I had a bad experience with Gene Taber. Had a thermal intermittent problem. Sent it three times to Gene. On the phone, he didn't seem to know how to troubleshoot thermal intermittents - I had to give him tips. I sent it 3 times, he had it a total of 3 months. As soon as I reinstalled it each time, the problem reappeared. It was apparent he kept focusing on the top board of the 2-board set inside the cluster. I finally bought a bottom board off another CF'er, and that solved the problem. Gene wouldn't refund the $195 - he said send it a 4th time.

..gh

 

Greg, I am glad to hear that fixed your porblem (I assume that was the bottom board I sold to you)

BTW I have a good top board if any is looking for one...

 

Hate that I'm just now getting back on here, but I'm glad there are some good guys out there that are getting a good name on the forum. I just don't want anyone else getting ripped off like I did!!!!!

 

I had Gene taber rebuild mine a few years ago, been working fine since, just have had a voltage too high issue, but I never sent it back to have him fix it (he offered to do it anytime within the warranty period), but I couldn't do without the vette.

I wonder if mine is going bad now though. It is flashing full on and off when the car is cold. After it warms up it does it very rarely. I'm not sure if it's the cluster or some ground somewhere, or whatnot..