Crown Vic Gauges replacement
I have a 2009 Ford Crown Victoria P71 Police Car. As with many of these cars, the original gauge cluster had a bunch of problems.
I went to a pick-your-own-part salvage yard near my house and found a similar cluster and swapped it out for mine and sent mine out to get repaired. I have, since this video, put the repaired original gauges back in the car. Which means I have done this job four times. Once in the junk yard, once on mine to swap these out, once here to fix the speedo needle and the last time to swap in the repaired original gauges.
I do have this set of gauges seen here in this video for sale for $30 plus shipping. The odometer does not display, but I have seen some places online getting $75 for a core charge for these. So they are worth the $30.
I know this video is hard to watch, I didn't set out to make this video. but I was doing the job anyway and thought it might help somebody who is planning to do this job. The first time in the junk yard, never having done it before took me twenty minutes. On my own car, after having done it, and knew what tools I needed. It took me more like ten minutes.
On this video I did everything with one hand ! I should have got somebody to hold the video camera.
Using my phone with a digital speedo app worked quite well actually. Kind of a neat app.
The job is way easier than it looks, You get to sit down for the whole job. good lighting is key, and get a magnetic (or magnetize) a 7mm socket or nut driver.
Also while you're in there I recommend getting rid of the connector for the overdive switch. It's right there and the wires are very small and because the make a sharp 90 degree turn to get into the connector the wires break. It is cheap insurance to just fix them while you're in there.