Over the past year my cluster has been pulling the whole "takes a while to wake up" low voltage issue that they're sometimes known to do. Lately it's getting worse and I've been meaning to repair it. I've already done the re-solder to fix my PRNDL display and it worked fantastic. I have been trying to find the other repair for this voltage problem but typing in anything involving our clusters into Google pulls up hours of articles that do me no good. If I recall it was a voltage transistor or regulator that someone replaced to fix it but I just cannot seem to find that article or repair. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I'm a repairer not a replacer.
Work was slow so I disassembled the cluster and had another go at it since the last time it was apart. Found some weak/broken solder joints on the board that weren't the normal ones for the PRNDL. A few were the resistors marked '240'. Reflowed all of the joints and it fires up perfectly! No random giberish popping up on the display either. Guess I'll order a new cluster fascia and fix my burnt out bulbs while I'm at it.