Mine is becoming worse. Only issues I'm having are the DIC and Compass flashing on and off and fading in and out. Can't tell wether it's time or the humid warmer weather but the DIC and Compass are both becoming flakier. Otherwise the cluster seems fine. Normally once I've driven a bit the issue self remedies but not always. It's fine "most" of the time. My guesses are that most likely it's a loose connection within the cluster. A soldered point that will be nearly impossible to get to. My next guess is that it's simply a connection wire that will be relatively easy to get to. Beyond that suggestions I've seen include cleaning the Buss (are those grounding points?) and someone on the outside suggested as alternators age they can do flaky things like that. I'd prefer to not need to replace the cluster so I'm guessing I'll remove it and verify the wire connections as the first step.

It appears that once the main dashboard valance is removed that I'll need a "star tip" driver to remove the cluster. Am I correct? What size/spec drivers are needed to remove that? Is there more to it than that? Any surprises I can prepare for? Special removal techniques that might help? Other tools I should bring to the game? If anyone else has resolved a similar issue please share some notes.

@Hoganct: Did you get yours resolved or where are you with it? TIA.