Any ideas how to fix the $250 Toyota 4Runner digital clock?
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13 years ago
Any ideas how to fix the $250 Toyota 4Runner digital clock?
plasma cutter
Angle grinder. (Here we go again.)
A stick on clock over it?
nancy
Air chisel.
Junk yard?
Personally, for something that old, I'd just get a cheap stick on clock from the local chinese crap stuff sellers...
Ebay is your friend :
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If you have to ask, it is probably beyond your skill set. But have you tried taking it out and cleaning all the connections, looking for bare or shorted wires, etc? No idea how many boards and bells and whistles the thing has, but unless it has trip functions or something, most are pretty simple. Wander around in the junkyard, and see if any other years and models are interchangeable. Does it not show numbers at all, or is the light just out? If the latter, the bulbs are usually replaceable.
The folks over in the Toyota truck groups may have better suggestions and hints.
First, the OBVIOUS. Are BOTH fuses good? It needs 2 power sources (and on some a third for lighting or dimming.
If they are all good the wreckers are your friend. I believe pickup clocks also fit - and there used to be several applications where by changing the plastic you could use a totally different application's clock.
Why bother. It's accurate twice a day; more than you could say when it was 'working'.
PlainBill
Hi there, I had a similar problem with my 2000 Camry LE. I went to the dealer to get a new one, but they quoted me 300+ tax. I went on Ebay and found someone who would fix the clock and ship it back to me. That was about 2.5 yrs ago and the clock is still working fine. Mine is the external thermometer/clock combo. I think it was around 50 bucks for the shipping and repair.
I believe this was the guy that did it:
ya, run it off in a river and buy an American car.
Why would he want a downgrade?
Maybe he's tired of taking a Toyota in every other week for the recalls.........
An old joke that probably doesn't apply to a digital clock.
It's never right, and it's never wrong. ;-)
You'd be better off asking in a toyota centric newsgroup. There's at least three high traffic toyota groups in the alt.autos domain, including trucks.
nb
I know. My 1985 Corolla and my 1995 Tercel were both recalled for the EXACT SAME THING! Ten years apart, and you would think they would learn to tighten the ground screw on the radio antenna properly!
Jeeze, I tell ya.
In that it.....?
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