Clock.......

[Towpack]

Anyone know how to remove the clock from a late (95 on) dashboard without dismantling the whole thing? Not much info in the FSM.

 

[Shayne]

Its screwed to the back of the panel , whole clock and vent panel pops off pretty easy just 2 plastic catches on the top i think , stick a butter knife in the right place and lift the handle a bit to release the clips .

 

[Towpack]

Thanks I'm on it!

 

[Towpack]

The thin knife works and there are locating lugs either side which need prising out. It's very easy to crack the unit!

The clock is very dim and hard to read in bright sunlight. I was half expecting a similar fix to the heater control illumination but there are no separate LED's in the clock for that, just the LED display itself. The clock face/cover is tinted plastic and was fogged up on the inside so a good clean and polish has improved transparency so I'll see if that improves readability in daylight. Not exactly an MOT fail or even essential equipment, it just bugs me.

 

[Shayne]

I tried to tint mine blue for same reason but the coloured clear plastic just obscured the digits more .

Oddly though only because you've mentioned it I realize I've had no trouble reading the time on it for ages so I accidentally fixed it doing something unrelated ?

 

[Shayne]

I fried the fuse wire in my lighter socket and because I was in the Isle of Man which has a postal system reliant on wooden rafts and mules i soldered in a copper wire to repair it without a fusable link . Blew the dome fuse at the same time which took out the curtesy light . I'd never heard of a dome fuse so lord only knows what i pulled apart wondering why my repaired lighter socket would not work , but I can think of nothing else that might have accidentally fixed my clock .

 

[frank rabbets]

It's our eyes TP. I got lost in BHAM when I was 45yo because I could not read the map at dawn.

 

[Towpack]

Clock now much more readable after defogging the back of the screen. It's pretty much a sealed unit when assembled it's strange how it figs in the first place.