Instrument Cluster: Installation

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2006 Dodge Sprinter. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

WARNING: To avoid personal injury or death, on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the supplemental restraint system before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, seat belt tensioner, or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is the only sure way to disable the supplemental restraint system. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.

Position the instrument cluster to the instrument panel.
Align the two molded plastic pivot loops integral to the base of the cluster hood between the two pairs of molded plastic pivot hooks that are integral to the top of instrument panel base structure, then push downward on the top of the cluster until the loops snap into engagement with the hooks. See Figure.
Roll the top of the instrument cluster rearward to access, reconnect, and latch the two frame wire harness connectors for the cluster to the connector receptacles on the back of the cluster housing.
Engage and latch the Remote Keyless Entry (RKE)/immobilizer module to the back of the instrument cluster rear cover. See Figure.
Roll the top of the instrument cluster forward to position the instrument cluster into the instrument panel.
Install and tighten the two screws that secure the instrument cluster mounting ears to the instrument panel base structure. See Figure. Tighten the screws to 2 N.m (20 in. lbs.).
Reinstall the cluster top cover onto the instrument panel. (Refer to BODY/INSTRUMENT PANEL/TOP COVER - CLUSTER - INSTALLATION) .
Reinstall the cluster bezel onto the instrument panel. (Refer to BODY/INSTRUMENT PANEL/CLUSTER BEZEL - INSTALLATION) .
Reconnect the battery negative cable.

CAUTION: If an ineffective and unresponsive Instrument Cluster (IC) has been replaced with a new unit, the new IC must be initialized and configured for certain optional equipment on the vehicle using a cluster programming procedure. (Refer to ELECTRICAL/INSTRUMENT CLUSTER - STANDARD PROCEDURE - CLUSTER PROGRAMMING) . Failure to correctly perform this programming procedure (also referred to as parameterization) prior to the IC being electronically locked down will result in the IC being incorrectly and irreversibly configured for improper vehicle equipment options, which will require the IC be replaced again with another new and unused unit to resolve.