Instrument Cluster (IC) Dealer Test Mode
12-12-2009, 11:59 AM
#1
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Instrument Cluster (IC) Dealer Test Mode
Are you looking for a break from oil, bulb and transmission threads? Do you want to have some fun with your instrument cluster?
Here, try this, I found this tidbit in the 2009 F-150 Workshop Manual. Page 413-01-12 if you have the manual.
It is a way to run some self-tests on the cluster and see some readouts of gauges and of temps in the tranny, fuel stuff, fuel data, batt voltage, bulbs etc etc. You will like it. I have run it and it did not blow anything up. Some of the readouts will make sense and some won't because thy are in hexedecimal format.
My favorites were the gauge test (it makes a noise and all the needles go full right) and also the test of all the lights on the cluster.
To enter the IC dealer test mode:
- On the cluster, hold the SELECT/RESET button in
- Turn ignition switch to RUN (I think the second position)
- Hold SELECT/RESET button in for about 5 seconds until display says ENGINEERING TEST MODE
- Then press the button in to cycle thru all the stages of the self test.
To exit, just hold the button in for about 3 seconds or just turn ignition to OFF.
Enjoy. Thanks
Here, try this, I found this tidbit in the 2009 F-150 Workshop Manual. Page 413-01-12 if you have the manual.
It is a way to run some self-tests on the cluster and see some readouts of gauges and of temps in the tranny, fuel stuff, fuel data, batt voltage, bulbs etc etc. You will like it. I have run it and it did not blow anything up. Some of the readouts will make sense and some won't because thy are in hexedecimal format.
My favorites were the gauge test (it makes a noise and all the needles go full right) and also the test of all the lights on the cluster.
To enter the IC dealer test mode:
- On the cluster, hold the SELECT/RESET button in
- Turn ignition switch to RUN (I think the second position)
- Hold SELECT/RESET button in for about 5 seconds until display says ENGINEERING TEST MODE
- Then press the button in to cycle thru all the stages of the self test.
To exit, just hold the button in for about 3 seconds or just turn ignition to OFF.
Enjoy. Thanks
Last edited by Lenn; 12-12-2009 at 04:52 PM.
12-12-2009, 04:24 PM
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12-12-2009, 08:03 PM
#9
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Thanks, Johnwill. I wondered if there were any tricks like this for the F150. On my 03 Hemi RAM there was an instrument cluster sequence like this one, and there was also another one that would give you all the codes the truck was throwing on the instrument cluster readout if the check engine light was on. That truck threw codes all the time. Is there a code readout sequence for the F150 instrument cluster?