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Old Aug 16, 2010 | 09:27 PM
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when breaking and inecating at the same time the whole left cluster flashes..bad eath????where would i start?
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 06:16 AM
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anyone?
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 06:23 AM
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is it an older car mate?
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 06:24 AM
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yer i think
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 06:32 AM
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sounds like a bad earth then, run a new earth wire to the body from the earth on the cluster, failing that the terminals in the cluster prob need a clean up with some emery and a spray with wd40 after.
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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 08:35 AM
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Cheers will try it
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Old Aug 18, 2010 | 08:52 AM
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Will be earths, classic disco lights as it's old RST all that should need doing is the earth connections cleaning as they will have corroded.

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Old Aug 18, 2010 | 02:23 PM
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I found cleaning the connectors to the back lights fixed my problem,had exactly same problem as you.
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Old Aug 18, 2010 | 03:10 PM
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Ok lads thanks for the quick replys
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