The Instrument cluster needed replacing as the fuel, temperature and revs all were not responding properly.
The radiator fan stopped due to a link with the Instrument cluster.
Great little car with a surprising amount of power for the engine size! Handles great for an old car and is quite comfortable.
Seats are really comfortable with enough room for passenger comfort.
My instrument cluster died as well. Only thing that works is the speedometer. Still haven't fixed it, but will now that you said the radiator fan is linked to the cluster. Car could overheat and then disaster! Great little car though. Its done 265000km and feels tight and perky! Yeah baby. Bought with 12 months registration, great CD music system, no rust, nice interior, clean engine, great paint job, new tires all for $2200. GO THE 1990 NISSAN REEBOK PULSAR! BUT: beware the CLUSTER people, it's a quitter! Booooo to the cluster. Hate the cluster!
INSTRUMENT CLUSTER;
Seems to be a common problem- the circuit board behind the speedo cluster and the computer heating up and melting... meaning the thermo fan is not switched on and you don't get the driver warnings.
Test drove a really nice one today (1991 Vector Ti 1.8) but the lights blinked on and off- happened while I was driving it, so someone must have thought of a fix for this; it won't put me off the car because of all I've test-driven the Pulsar was a standout- a really excellent car to drive. Never driven one before, but I can tell you after my sister's 3-series BM ('86 she had in the 90's) this one left it for dead. Impressed me a lot. Amazing how you start to beleive branding.
Can you get small fans or heatsinks for these areas that get hot and fry? Anyone know of mods to fix this problem?
Re: Crap Cluster.
Not sure about heat sinks or fans. I was looking at N13 Pulsars on eBay and emailed a Pulsar nutter who said its really hard to find replacement clusters at the wreckers because they all suffer the same fate, so you'll just be replacing bad with soon to be bad. Bad news. Not sure what to do now. He suggested rigging up a temp gauge (from Supercheap Auto) that's directly wired to the temp-sensor thus bypassing the cluster and hard wiring the fan so its always on. Sounds to complicated for me. I can't even bake bread. Gotta get the temp thing fixed though. Disaster waiting to happen.
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