ok so i changed my gem last week and ever sice then i have had major problems with everything you can think of. 1st off my speedometer odometer and trip dont work all other gauges work fine... 2nd i have no turn signels or brake lights hut my flashers work and my a cant take it out of park ( i think those 2 are related). 3rd my battery wont hold charge and 4th the airbag light is on. im thinking of putting my old gem back in since i found out that it wasnt the problem in the 1st place it was a fuse that i forgot to check that had made the gauges stop working im going to do that tomarrow and see if that cures my problems hopefully it does. but if anyone has any clue of whats going on please chime in itd be much aprecated.

 

Is this the exact same GEM number as the one you replaced? Is the new one a used one or new one?

 

its a new one the numbers are differnt but the website i got it from (autopartscheaper.com) said they would be cause its the new design aslong as you had esof power windows and it was a 1997-1998 it would work. im guna put the old one back in and see what happens hopefully it will fix it ima bout to roll this thing down a hill and forget about it seems like everytime i touch it something else goes wrong....

 

ttt

 

I did a similar swap in my Navigator and WOW!! everything was f'd up. Put old one in and got the exact numbered one used and it has worked perfect since.

 

where did you find a used one? ebay?

 

so f fooled around with it some more today and got mostly everything to work except the speedometer trip odomoter and the airbag light is still on...

 

carparts.com

 

prolly threw an airbag dtc , get a handheld scanner and clear the code , for the trip odometer they have problems already so it might not be related ,