This has become more and more of an issue as these truck age and rack up the miles because they are great work trucks. One issue you may come across at one time or another is an all out dead or intermittent operation of the cluster, then at the same time you notice the radio is out and so is the power windows. In my new video I explain what its all about, your options and finally how to swap the cluster out yourself. Take a look it may save you some green in the future as the dealer cluster is around $550 alone.

 

I have an '06 and they still have the quite a few things running through the cluster including the "Battery saver relay". I purchased a truck to find out that the vanity mirror lights didn't work and learned a lot about this circuit. I tried to lay out the troubleshooting process as much as I could in the following thread. This particular issue starts on page 3

http://www.thedetailerscafe.com/smf/...p?topic=2981.0

 

This is true but the 02-04 years this was a new thing and thus multiple failures ensued. The cluster was a total redesign in 05 and they made their own new issues (sticking speedo etc..) The clusters do more and more nowadays with everything needing 5 modules to turn on simple things, some even control the a/c compressor too stuff like that.