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Old Aug 31, 2003 | 11:22 AM
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Dash for 87 GTA

The digital dash i have in my 87 GTA doesn't work very good anymore, is there some place that i can get a different one or have the one i have fixed. ITs very dim and hard to read, the message center is smashed and doesn't work really at all.
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Old Aug 31, 2003 | 03:05 PM
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I can get you one from an 87 GTA for about $500.
Everything works on it and it looks great.
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Old Sep 1, 2003 | 07:17 PM
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thats alittle more than i wanted to pay.
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 04:54 PM
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that's a lot less than it'll cost you elsewhere
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 05:30 PM
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i can get the one i have rebuilt with a warrenty for $500.
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 06:36 PM
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Originally posted by Zepher
I can get you one from an 87 GTA for about $500.
Everything works on it and it looks great.
Hopefully that includes the rest of the car for that price.
They are on ebay all the time.
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 06:47 PM
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Hopefully that includes the rest of the car for that price.
They are on ebay all the time.
The rest of the car is $1000 more.
I am talking about the entire dash with wiring. Everything from the drivers side vent all the way to the pass side vent.
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 09:47 PM
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i'd say go for it man, maybe there's some $$$ in the glovebox to offset ur cost =P
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Old Sep 3, 2003 | 12:17 AM
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I got the entire dash with wiring and the front lights harness all for $100. Came with everything except the washer fluid and coolant level sensors.

By the way, since your car came with the digital dash, could you get pics of the fluid sensors? I have no idea what they look like.
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Old Sep 3, 2003 | 12:20 AM
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I would say do the LED conversion. Mine is hard to read during the day, at night its ok. See if you can find an incomplete dash that has the info center display. Each display is actually a piece of glass that unplugs. You just need to find a new info center display. The circuits behind it are probably still good.
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Old Sep 3, 2003 | 06:43 AM
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You can always find them on ebay for $100-150.

As for being dim... that just sounds like the back-lighting bulbs are burnt out. Those are easy to change.

As for the broken part, maybe you can get lucky and find a dash cluster real cheap that has a different section broken.
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Old Oct 4, 2003 | 04:26 PM
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You will find a digital dash cluster for around $200-$250 @ www.tacreationsusa.com and other items also!:lala:
http://members.sounddomain.com/seelo

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Old Oct 4, 2003 | 05:42 PM
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i got one the other night off off e-bay for $240. I called tacreations but they didn't have any that they knew worked.
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