Minnesota Focus Owners Club

Man is that thing a PITA. Glad it's done, shifts are a LOT smoother now. Thanks Steve for the part! I wish I wouldn't have thrown my old one out, I was going to look at possibly making one out of something besides plastic. I don't really want to do all the fab work to make a wilwood work.

A few days later now and all my dash, hvac and taillights aren't working. Suggestions?

Check your fuse's?

i did quickly, but didn't see any blatantly bad. Anyone know which fuse this would all be on?

It will tell you all the fuse locations in your owners manual. If that's not it, it might be the switch too. I'd vote fuse before anything though.

Checked every fuse. All good. Plus when I hit the lock button the whole display lights up and blinks.

I found some off, well maybe they're not, but they seem odd.

A Audiovox plastic box with a screw to adjust level of something and a shock sensor. And a black box hanging up under the steering wheel with part number P/N: 136-2040. Don't know how these could be related but thought it might matter. I'm at a loss.

Check the wires on your GEM (body control module, behind glovebox.)

Could be there was an aftermarket alarm installed, behind the fusebox is a popular place to mount the brain, could've been bumped when you were doing the clutch master.

I'm almost certain there is one installed. It's up above the fuse block. How could that disrupt ONLY the dash lights and daytime tail lights. The dash still flashes when I hit the lock button. It's weird. It's JUST the dash and daytime running tail lights.

Steve, you have any ideas?

Not really other than checking all the wiring to that aftermarket alarm system.

Nothing your car is doing sounds remotely familiar so it's certainly not a known issue.

Well, as per suggestion on Focal Jet, I held the button on the back of the alarm system with the key in the on position. After about 15 second the light popped on, started the car, turned the headlights on and the tail lights were working perfect. It was too bright to check the dash lights but will know tonight. SO weird! Thanks for the suggestions though.

So is holding that button kind of a hard reset for the alarm system?

Gotta love aftermarket stuff

Good to hear you are in the clear and the frustration is behind you.

Yep, got that figure out, and put in new plugs and wires. Gapped them to .055 because that's what I thought I saw suggested by most. Later this week I hope to get the Borla on, then next week the TB and strut tower brace.