My 1999 Toyota 4Runner digital clock is kaput (any ideas?)

plasma cutter

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:53:02 +0100 Adrian C wrote in Message id: :

Angle grinder. (Here we go again.)

A stick on clock over it?

nancy

Air chisel.

Junk yard?

Personally, for something that old, I'd just get a cheap stick on clock from the local chinese crap stuff sellers...

On ebay you can send the clock in for repair. I think it was only $17.99. Item number:130341554541 Let us no how it works out.

Ebay is your friend :

JC

If you have to ask, it is probably beyond your skill set. But have you tried taking it out and cleaning all the connections, looking for bare or shorted wires, etc? No idea how many boards and bells and whistles the thing has, but unless it has trip functions or something, most are pretty simple. Wander around in the junkyard, and see if any other years and models are interchangeable. Does it not show numbers at all, or is the light just out? If the latter, the bulbs are usually replaceable.

The folks over in the Toyota truck groups may have better suggestions and hints.

First, the OBVIOUS. Are BOTH fuses good? It needs 2 power sources (and on some a third for lighting or dimming.

If they are all good the wreckers are your friend. I believe pickup clocks also fit - and there used to be several applications where by changing the plastic you could use a totally different application's clock.

Why bother. It's accurate twice a day; more than you could say when it was 'working'.

PlainBill

Hi there, I had a similar problem with my 2000 Camry LE. I went to the dealer to get a new one, but they quoted me 300+ tax. I went on Ebay and found someone who would fix the clock and ship it back to me. That was about 2.5 yrs ago and the clock is still working fine. Mine is the external thermometer/clock combo. I think it was around 50 bucks for the shipping and repair.

I believe this was the guy that did it:

ya, run it off in a river and buy an American car.

Why would he want a downgrade?

Maybe he's tired of taking a Toyota in every other week for the recalls.........

An old joke that probably doesn't apply to a digital clock.

It's never right, and it's never wrong. ;-)

You'd be better off asking in a toyota centric newsgroup. There's at least three high traffic toyota groups in the alt.autos domain, including trucks.

nb

I always wear a little cheap pendant digital watch on the front of my shirt.I bought that cheap pendant watch for one dollar at a Dollar Tree store about two years ago, it is still working with the same battery that came with it.It works for me. cuhulin

The best one I ever had was a round $1 one way back starting in the summer of '81. It was plastic, about the diameter of a half dollar and had the two buttons on the front with an adhesive backing. I had it in a greenhouse.....er......a '71 Chevy Impala and that summer was miserably hot. During the day I had to park my car with the windows closed in the bright sun. Whenever I'd get in the car in the late afternoon, it was so hot that the display would be "freaking out" for a few minutes until it would cool down. I think I had it about 3 years before the battery finally gave out. The thing never gained or lost a minute each year and I only had to adjust it twice a year for daylight savings time change.