Once in the driveway, it took an additional hour for a tow truck to come (we were lucky the driveway existed at that location!). The car remained in the road for about a half hour until permission was secured to turn the car into the driveway where the wheels turning lead into, requiring pushing the car through two lanes of traffic. The steering wheel locked and was impossible to unlock without turning the key in the lock cylinder. When the part failed, the vehicle was stalled on a roadway where speeds regularly exceed 30 mph and I immediately tried to move the car out of danger. WWW.NISSAN ALTAMA DASHLIGHTS DIMMING AND THEN BRIGHT DRIVERThe failure occurred such that turning the key in the ignition is impossible, and strands the driver and all passengers wherever the car is at the time. The wafers (equivalent to pins on tumbler locks) wore away such that the key no longer worked in the lock. The ignition lock cylinder failed suddenly, preventing any use of the vehicle. Seems Honda now refuses to honor this letter. If this is not the case, or the name/address information is not correct, please fill out and return the enclosed, postage-paid information change card. What to do if you feel this notice is in error our records show that you are the current owner or lessee of a 2007 Element involved in this product update. Please plan to leave your vehicle at the dealer for half a day to allow some flexibility in scheduling. The dealer will replace the instrument panel, transferring the odometer and maintenance minder data from the original instrument panel to the new one. What should you do? contact any authorized Honda dealer for an appointment to have your vehicle updated. The gauges that can be affected include the speedometer, the tachometer, the fuel, and the coolant temperature. What is the problem? the needles in the instrument panel gauges may read inaccurately of fall off. 7l014108 sample letter: December 2007 product update: instrument panel gauge needles read inaccurately or fall off dear Element owner: this letter is to notify you of a potential problem with your vehicle and what you should do to resolve it. I will find the tube tonight and post up what it was, or ask my wife, she is the photographer.Speedometer needle has dropped over the last 2 weeks. I can not recall what it is called but the glue I used is normally used to stick photos down, is rubbery, dries clear and neutral cure if you get it wrong you can still unstick it and the cured glue rubs off with your finger. All it needed was the filter film, the glue, a couple of screwdrivers and tweezers to slip the flim in with. It only took me an hour or so to do the whole job. Once it is out I don't think I even had to remove any screws from the dash assembly (I did it five years ago, memory is getting a bit dull) it was just a matter of very carefully levering the tabs in to pop the clear plastic panel off the cluster and then carefully glue the filter film in behind the screen printed front face of the dash without actually dissasembling anything more than that. The dash comes out pretty easily and as it is all electronic it is just a couple of wiring plugs to disconnect once removed, removing it was I think four screws behind the cowling, which popped off pretty easily.
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