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Feel about the same with that MidWesTecKmart outfit in Michigan...went through several phone calls to send him my '02 instrument cluster and arrange payment and finally got it sent off to him. Two weeks later when he finally gets around to looking at it he calls me (heavy foreign accent) and tells me cluster has been (hot wired) to keep the dash lights on full time and he usually rejects such work but would try (try?) to fix it for $300-$400 but wouldn't guarantee it; I told him to send it back. He takes another week to mail it back....so the car has been "down" for 4 weeks.

I received it, put it on my workbench and reversed the Bubba changes and installed LEDs in place of all the bulbs in about 45 minutes myself installed the cluster and will reassemble the dash today. He is supposed to refund most of the fees since all he did was "diagnostics". Yeah right,,we'll see.
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There is a wire wrapped around one of the bolts holding the FEM in place...Is that factory ? can you just pull it off?
Or what ?? It would be my luck it would short out something and be cremated on the spot.


Thanks JJ
 
You shouldn't be doing anything with the FEM and the battery connected first off...
I doubt the factory wrapped a wire around a mounting bolt and there is nothing in the FEM Workshop Manual removal instructions about such a wire. It appears to me Bubba was trying to get a ground wire connected to something.
 
Hello! I have a 2002 Tbird with a failing FEM. I found one on ebay with the same part number from a wrecked 02, which was advertised was tested and working fine. Just waiting for it to arrive. Does the replacement FEM need to be reprogrammed for my car or is it useable as is? Thanks!
 
No! Based another persons experience on here installing an '02 FEM without reprogramming it, I did the same thing on my 2002 last fall -- no reprogramming and NO issues. You'll have to do the usual battery disconnect routines...idling the car until its up to temp, then idling with the A/C on, then driving until the car relearns your style -- all this is in the owner's manual.
 
Frankie the Fink said:
No! Based another persons experience on here installing an '02 FEM without reprogramming it, I did the same thing on my 2002 last fall -- no reprogramming and NO issues. You'll have to do the usual battery disconnect routines...idling the car until its up to temp, then idling with the A/C on, then driving until the car relearns your style -- all this is in the owner's manual.
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