JRZEE2000TR4LTD
Senior Member
It has been an goal of mine for the time I bought my 1st 4runner 16 months ago, to find a fix for these Auto climate controls in the Limited models. I recently purchased a 99 Limited with the same problem as my 2000 - unresponsive buttons, erratic temp and fan speed controls, etc. Well, after working on my latest 4runner's controls I have successfully fixed it. I since then have repaired 3 others (2 friends and one I had sitting in a box in pieces because I couldn't fix it with the soldering setup I had. I spent a good bit of money recently on a soldering desoldering station and a DC voltage generator and this allowed me to confidently repair these control units. The problems I've found are cold solder joints, a bad switching transistor, and a couple bad buttons (probably from being mashed because of the unresponsiveness)
Anyways, I would like to fix a couple of units for you guys for free (you would have to pay shipping) as a favor and payback for all the help I've gotten from this forum. I'll do 3 freebees then going forward, I'll fix them cheaper then anyone on Ebay (I think the cheapest now is $68) I'm not looking to make a lot of money, just want to help some people out and get back a little of my investment on my soldering station (it wasn't cheap) I eventually would like to provide a backup unit for people to use, or just sell the backup and provided I get their unit back. I think DAT does it this way. I also would like to upgrade the unit to any LED color the customer would like as a lot of people are using the LEDs now. What do you guys think? I guess the best way would be to jump right in, so the 1st 3 people that PM me, I'll do for free, after that I'll figure a fair price at a cheaper rate than anyone on Ebay. In case your wondering my qualifications I graduated with honors from DeVry University with an AAS in Electronics, and have been doing quite a bit of component level repair for the last 15 years.
I hope to help a lot of guys out with this problem that has plagued these units. Any other questions or comment feel free to post or shoot me a PM.
Anyways, I would like to fix a couple of units for you guys for free (you would have to pay shipping) as a favor and payback for all the help I've gotten from this forum. I'll do 3 freebees then going forward, I'll fix them cheaper then anyone on Ebay (I think the cheapest now is $68) I'm not looking to make a lot of money, just want to help some people out and get back a little of my investment on my soldering station (it wasn't cheap) I eventually would like to provide a backup unit for people to use, or just sell the backup and provided I get their unit back. I think DAT does it this way. I also would like to upgrade the unit to any LED color the customer would like as a lot of people are using the LEDs now. What do you guys think? I guess the best way would be to jump right in, so the 1st 3 people that PM me, I'll do for free, after that I'll figure a fair price at a cheaper rate than anyone on Ebay. In case your wondering my qualifications I graduated with honors from DeVry University with an AAS in Electronics, and have been doing quite a bit of component level repair for the last 15 years.
I hope to help a lot of guys out with this problem that has plagued these units. Any other questions or comment feel free to post or shoot me a PM.
