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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:32 am 
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So driving to work today in my 2000, and all of the sudden i look down and the display is black, can't adjust or turn anything on, then within a few seconds the brake and anti lock lights light up, and if the display comes back on those lights go back off, Whats going on there?


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Have you recently had any transmission work done? Anyone messing with the 2 grounds that bolt to the top of the transmission?

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harofreak00 wrote:
Have you recently had any transmission work done? Anyone messing with the 2 grounds that bolt to the top of the transmission?


None since i've owned it now for a few of months now, Only ground I messed with was the one under the ICM when i changed it out, but that was weeks ago


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Many years ago I was working on a customers car that was having intermittent issues with the radio/climate controls at the same time as ABS/Trac problems. It turned out to be a loose ground on the transmission after there was some work done.

If those grounds are still good, the next thing I'd check into is the printed circuit ribbon harness behind the dash. Sometime aftermarket radio installs will mess up this cable.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:22 pm 
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harofreak00 wrote:
Many years ago I was working on a customers car that was having intermittent issues with the radio/climate controls at the same time as ABS/Trac problems. It turned out to be a loose ground on the transmission after there was some work done.

If those grounds are still good, the next thing I'd check into is the printed circuit ribbon harness behind the dash. Sometime aftermarket radio installs will mess up this cable.



Thanks! I'll check the grounds, i believe its still the factory radio in the car


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This thing is driving me *fook* nuts!!! It seems worse after I I’m bolted this from the trans? But even up in the harness if I *fook* around the abs lights will come on? I’m the only one working on it so I don’t know what *fook* wire I touch brings back the heater controls? What is this box? Just a ground? Can I splice all three wires that going into it into one ground?


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That's called a splice pack. All those wires going into it are grounds for various circuits. It connects them together by way of a bus bar inside. The bus is in contact with the bolt which attaches to the transmission (in this case). If you mess around with those wires and it starts to work, there is a bad connection inside that splice pack, or between the splice pack and what it's bolted to (GM has these all over the car). You can:

A) Replace it (I'm sure Andrew can sell you one).
B) Take it apart and clean the terminals and bus bar.

You may also want to ensure the wires are crimped well to the terminals that plug into the splice pack. You will need to disassemble it to determine this.

You can see in the photo that the wires have terminals attached and they simply slide into the bottom of the splice pack. There is a gray plastic part around the cavities where the wires are inserted. This is called a Terminal Position Assurance lock and it must be removed to either add or remove terminals.

The top (where the metal tab exits the top) snaps into the body of the splice pack. You can remove this exposing all the terminals the wires are attached to. If you do this, you can also press the release tab to remove a terminal through the bottom.

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Thanks for the reply! So I did pull the top plastic cover off that box, and seen the terminals, they all appeared inside to be tight, but if they slide down on top a metal bar then that very well
could be it, those clump of wires when i was looking for the issue yesterday i could hear the bell inside the car go on and off that was lighting the anti brake and brake light on at the same time the heater screen goes on and off with them, i was thinking it was inside the cluster of wires , but i see nothing wrong as far as a broken wire etc, it could've been the wires pulling on that splice pack? I found a link showing how it comes apart, i'll check it today after work!


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So I dug into this deeper last night, the ground looks perfect, clean etc, i even bolted it back down on trans with it all apart and then grabbed each one and seen if it would act up it
didn't! So This is kinda what happens i was on cruise control last week, and all of the sudden it went off, then i looked and the anti lock light and brake light were on and heater screen out
Does anyone have a wiring schematic of the big cluster i have the tape off? Top it off this morning the *dang* wipers don't work ,lol. The washer does tho. Its all gotta be on one circuit to effect those things i'm seeing?

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I had a loose fuse in the rear block which would cause my CC and heated seat controls to intermittently come on and off. I forget which one it was though.

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Okay, looking through the schematics, G106 is a common ground point for:

Cruise Control Module
Brake Fluid Level Switch
Wiper Motor

Since some of your problems seem common to this ground, I would check it. G106 is located in the engine compartment, near the left strut tower, on the frame rail. It should be underneath a big connector that joins the main body wiring harness to the engine wiring harness. This will also be a splice pack. Start there and see what you find. Wiggling that bundle of wires may cause enough shift in the harness to move the wires going into this splice pack.

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nos4blood70 wrote:
I had a loose fuse in the rear block which would cause my CC and heated seat controls to intermittently come on and off. I forget which one it was though.


The fuse panel under seats?


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ddalder wrote:
Okay, looking through the schematics, G106 is a common ground point for:

Cruise Control Module
Brake Fluid Level Switch
Wiper Motor

Since some of your problems seem common to this ground, I would check it. G106 is located in the engine compartment, near the left strut tower, on the frame rail. It should be underneath a big connector that joins the main body wiring harness to the engine wiring harness. This will also be a splice pack. Start there and see what you find. Wiggling that bundle of wires may cause enough shift in the harness to move the wires going into this splice pack.


Went to start car after work , wipers worked lol, and heater stayed on all the way home, I know which splice pack your talking about it’s right under the master cylinder, and its bolt is rusty as *shoot* where it’s bolted to frame.I did try and move those wires around to no avail, but I was curious about how rusty the bolt looked holding it down. I’ll definitely be loosening that if the bolt don’t break lol and checking it! Ya guys are great! You are keeping the blood pressure In check lol


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So Still dealing with this, I think I may have discovered something, It seems like once it comes on after being off, its ok and will stay on? But the minute i stop and need to put it in park it will go out, and if i go back into drive it may or may not come back on, But every time going into park it will shut the heater controls screen off and the anti lock and brake light come on, and sometimes my trac control light stays on and sometimes it stays off independent of the anti brake light deal also. Guys seen this? Or where i need to search for this?


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You never really reported back about what you found with the splicepack in the engine compartment, other than excessive corrosion. So here's the thing... This may in fact be more than one problem. Often we tend to focus on a single solution. We've had numerous instances on the forum of people realizing (afterward) there was a couple of things that needed to be repaired. If there is as much corrosion as you mention, I have no doubt this could easily have affected those grounds. It may not be an easy repair (in so far as getting it all apart), but I still suggest starting there and moving on afterward. I've been trying to look for some commonality between your symptoms, but some things just don't fit together (hence attacking this one thing at a time).

If you have access to a high-end scan tool, codes will also help. There will definitely be some stored since you have indicators illuminated, but the corner parts store scan tool won't help.

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ddalder wrote:
You never really reported back about what you found with the splicepack in the engine compartment, other than excessive corrosion. So here's the thing... This may in fact be more than one problem. Often we tend to focus on a single solution. We've had numerous instances on the forum of people realizing (afterward) there was a couple of things that needed to be repaired. If there is as much corrosion as you mention, I have no doubt this could easily have affected those grounds. It may not be an easy repair (in so far as getting it all apart), but I still suggest starting there and moving on afterward. I've been trying to look for some commonality between your symptoms, but some things just don't fit together (hence attacking this one thing at a time).

If you have access to a high-end scan tool, codes will also help. There will definitely be some stored since you have indicators illuminated, but the corner parts store scan tool won't help.


I know I'm Sorry, i put it all back together and its still there. When I had it apart, i just slid the grounds on each peg and then wiggled them etc and i couldn't get the lights to act up at all, So I put it back together, as far as the other one on the frame under the master cylinder u told me about, I just unbolted it, the threads were somewhat rusty in the frame and i wiggled and played around with the wires too that went in the splice pack to no avail? Its very confusing to say the least, but its connected somehow to whatever controls the headlights and the park setting, cause don't the headlights go off the minute u put it in park? I think they do and will verify today, Like I said it will be off sometimes when i start it and as im driving just pops back on and works, the minute i slide it into park it goes out. When I first bought this car there was a lot of history on the ABS etc on the parts store scan tool when I was chasing the misfire deal, Could it be connected the guy thought it had it fixed when i bought it and now its coming back?


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I'll have to look through some more schematics when I get a chance. The DRL's should only be on when:

1. The ignition is ON.
2. The exterior lamp control is OFF.
3. The transmission is not in PARK.
4. The ambient light is bright enough (if it's too dark, the regular low-beam headlamps will illuminate instead).

In these cars, the park brake has no effect on DRL's.

The ABS module shouldn't have anything directly to do with the HVAC control, but there are a lot of possibilities. Chafed wiring harness, water intrusion (from prior work) into connectors passing multiple wires in unrelated circuits, just to name a couple. My first step is always to look for common problems between the systems, but in this case, it's looking less like a ground issue. I'll try and dig into this more, just can't promise how quickly I can get to it.

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I went to a advance auto yesterday just to check codes as my check engine lights been on, and i'm sure it was cause of all this bs, one day it just went off on its own for a day lol.. anyway a ton of codes
C1298,C1277, C12145,P0440,P1571,P1602,P1689.... The codes cleared and the lights off again, My fog lights will work with the switch if the heater controls working, if that goes dark, the fog lamp switch doesn't turn them on either.. Some weird *shoot* going on for sure! Stupid question perhaps, but are the DRL'S the inside ones? And the headlights are the outer ones? The DRL are much dimmer then the headlights right? Then there's my trac control button down on the console , is that supposed to push in to turn it on and off cause it doesn't move, and sometimes the little light on that button is lit and other times it isn't also, as well as sometimes its off in the dash and sometimes it stays on. Then yesterday my dash lights were all off while driving and hitting the fog lamp switch brought them all on? lol


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Geez, this sounds like it's electro-complicated. One of the challenges I had with my bonnie (sold now) were the Driver Instrument Clusters in the Dashboard. Sometimes they were on, sometimes off. I would up discovering after several dash removals and troubleshooting and wire playing that I could press on the plastic screen over the instruments (like pushing the gauges toward the front of the vehicle) and that got the DIC's re-illuminated so it was just a loose connection of some type that was never fully resolved for a few reasons. It did drive me mad though (it looked so cool when everything was lit and felt frustrating when suddenly it wasn't)

Those electrical gremlins can be so hard to pin down, made worse with older computer circuits making it impossible to really see what connects to what. I also had an issue (IIRC??) where there was a brake service requirement causing warning lights to behave oddly. What the car probably wants is to have all of the wiring and electric replace like new. One of the huge challenges of early 2k or 1990's vintage cars is so many electrical things can start appearing. I hope you're able to locate the issue - make sure all the wires and plugs are clean of course.

http://www.pontiacbonnevilleclub.com/forum/1992/topic46475.html - not that it will help you but...

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Regarding the headlights, on your car, the DRL's are the high beams connected in series (as opposed to parallel). This makes them dimmer than if they were on as regular high beams.

In 2000-01 the wiring in the dash is a flexible printed circuit. I'm almost wondering if you don't have a problem with this, given the description of some of your problems. Tough to say.

Fortunately GM made some significant improvements in wiring for the 2000+ Bonneville and electrical problems aren't nearly as common. Having said that, the technology in general is night and day different as well. Far more extensive use of modules and data bus technology which, generally speaking, is fairly reliable. Intermittent problems are almost always difficult to solve, especially remotely. The problem here is that it really isn't a common problem at all which means starting pretty much from the beginning. I'd feel a lot better about tackling this if the car was in front of me while I had access to my tools and diagnostic equipment.

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