Category: Thrifty Ideas

On Tuesday evening, D got back the instrument panel for the Suburban.  After Munchkin’s baseball practice, he reinstalled it in the Suburban.  It was working nicely.  Then, something crazy happened when he put the dash panel back in place.  The truck died!!  It wouldn’t start. He tried charging the battery, and it still wouldn’t start.  It was really, really odd.  We finally popped the dash panel off, and the truck started!  It was really strange. After we had the truck running for a bit of time, we popped the dash panel back on, and we didn’t have any more problems.…

A few months ago, the speedometer on my Suburban went out.  It was a gradual process.  At first, there was a click, click sound.  Then, it started to get stuck at certain speeds.  Finally, it just stopped working.  We took it over to the Chevy dealership, and they confirmed that it was the cluster motor.  They said they would have to replace the whole instrument panel.  The parts alone would cost somewhere in the range of $500-600.  That figure didn’t include labor. **sigh** When we went home, D hopped on the internet to do some research.  It turns out that…