I have a question. While anything is possible, how difficult would it be to install the digital dash cluster from the 1990 Buick Riviera into the Fiero? I know the dash would have to be altered and modified to fit, but how hard would it be wire? Has anybody tackled this project? I remember seeing a few digital clusters but not many.
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Posts: 46 From: Belgium & Florida some times Registered: Nov 2009
if it is the same as the Buick Reatta and Riviera 89 , the touch screen should be very difficult to wire , giving that if I remember mine , not least than 27 sending units are connected !
if it is the same as the Buick Reatta and Riviera 89 , the touch screen should be very difficult to wire , giving that if I remember mine , not least than 27 sending units are connected !
A clarification is needed here: I have a 90 Reatta and it does not have the touch screen. Buick was having many complaints about the CRT burning out that they totally removed it from the car in it's last two years. Only the first two years had the touch screen. (88 & 89)
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Posts: 1569 From: Youngsville, La., USA Registered: Dec 2003
To do a 1990 Riviera instrument cluster sway you will also need the BCU (Body Control Unit). For the most part, information from the BCU is feed to the instrument cluster via a Data Link. I have been down that paht already. After all the time I spent in collecting all the components, wiring diagrams, etc. and the start of the install I had second thoughts and decided against it. If you plan on continuing the install/swap let me know as I have a ton of drawings and wirning diagrams I can share with you. Including the 1990 Buick Riviera wiring information. I purchased the electronic version of the wiring diagrams.
Thanks for the info (and to everybody else)... It sounds like it's not one of those weekend projects - a few wires here, a couple of connectors there, etc. I was hoping for more of a simple approach. I was sitting in traffic early one morning and saw the dash in the car sitting next to me and thought - "...wow, that would be cool..." But now hearing what it will take to wire up I'm thinking "... wow, that looks too hard..." LOL
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Posts: 7131 From: Edmond, Oklahoma Registered: Jan 2006
those had a touch screen?? i found a 90 or so calais in the yards that had a screen. looked more into it and it turned out to be a gps like setup. or a crputer kinda thing. it was a crt display. i forget any details on it. but i was amazed that they actually put that kind of technology into a production car in that day in age.
those had a touch screen?? i found a 90 or so calais in the yards that had a screen. looked more into it and it turned out to be a gps like setup. or a crputer kinda thing. it was a crt display. i forget any details on it. but i was amazed that they actually put that kind of technology into a production car in that day in age.
The 80s were the hey day for digital displays. I remember sitting in one of those Regals in 87 or so at the auto show and playing with the CRT displays. Aside from being unreliable clunky CRT displays, the general consensus was that no one wanted a touch screen to run the basic functions of a radio or HVAC.
So fast forward 20 years or so and the touch screens are making a comback. Mostly in hybrids, but you will find cars with touch screens that run the whole setup with no knobs to back it up. I don't know if they will catch on, but it would be cool to see a Fiero with a OEM touch screen setup from the 80s.
[This message has been edited by jscott1 (edited 01-13-2010).]
