Liquid Crystal Display
The instrument cluster includes the following Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) units:
- EVIC Display (20)
- Odometer/Trip Odometer Display (20)
An odometer and trip odometer are standard factory-installed equipment in all instrument clusters. The odometer, trip odometer, and engine hours information are displayed in a common electronic, blue-green LCD unit. This LCD unit is soldered onto the cluster electronic circuit board and is visible through a window with a smoked lens located on the lower edge of the speedometer gauge dial face of the cluster overlay. The dark lens over the LCD prevents the indicator from being clearly visible when it is not illuminated.
The odometer, trip odometer, and engine hours information are not displayed simultaneously. The trip odometer reset switch on the instrument cluster circuit board toggles the display between odometer and trip odometer modes by depressing the odometer/trip odometer switch button that extends through the lower edge of the cluster lens, just left of the tachometer. When the trip odometer information is displayed, the word TRIP is also illuminated in the lower right corner of the LCD in a blue-green color and at the same lighting level as the trip odometer information. The engine hours information replaces the selected odometer or trip odometer information whenever the ignition switch is in the ON position and the engine is not running.
The odometer, trip odometer, and engine hours information is stored in the instrument cluster memory. This information can be increased when the proper inputs are provided to the instrument cluster, but the information cannot be decreased. The odometer can display values up to 999, 999 kilometers (621, 000 miles). The odometer latches at these values, and will not roll over to zero. The trip odometer can display values up to 999.9 kilometers (621, 000 miles) before it rolls over to zero. Engine hours are displayed in the format, hr 9999 . The cluster will accumulate values up to 65, 000 hours before the display rolls over to zero. The engine hours are displayed within the LCD odometer display on low line models and in the EVIC display on high line models.
The odometer display does not have a decimal point and will not show values less than a full unit (kilometer or mile), while the trip odometer display does have a decimal point and will show tenths of a unit (kilometer or mile). The unit of measure (kilometers or miles) for the odometer and trip odometer display is not shown in the LCD. The unit of measure for the instrument cluster odometer/trip odometer is selected at the time that it is manufactured, and cannot be changed. The odometer also has a RENTAL CAR mode, which will illuminate the odometer information in the LCD whenever the driver side front door is opened with the ignition switch in the OFF or ACCESSORY positions.
During daylight hours (exterior lamps are OFF) the odometer LCD is illuminated at full brightness for clear visibility. At night (exterior lamps are ON), the LCD lighting level is adjusted with the other cluster general illumination lamps using the panel lamps dimmer thumbwheel on the headlamp switch. However, a PARADE mode position of the panel lamps dimmer thumbwheel allows the LCD to be illuminated at full brightness if the exterior lamps are turned ON during daylight hours.
The odometer/trip odometer LCD, the trip odometer switch, and the trip odometer switch button are serviced as a unit with the instrument cluster.
The CCN module for this vehicle is serviced only as a complete unit. The CCN module cannot be adjusted or repaired. If a gauge, an LED indicator, the LCD unit, the electronic circuit board, the circuit board hardware, the cluster overlay, or the CCN housing are damaged or ineffective, the entire CCN module must be replaced. The cluster lens, hood and mask unit are available for separate service replacement.