Removing the instrument panel from a 1500SE

[Richard the old one]

I was asked today how to remove the instrument panel in a 1500SE so that a defective hazard warning switch can be replaced.<br>
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Can someone please advise how this is carried out as it is completely different from other dolomites and it is not covered in any of the handbooks that I own.<br>
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Richard

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[Jon Tilson]

in the way that you can on an HL modell with the instrument bits seperate from the rest with just 4 screws. The whole dash is one big thing and if you have to it bolts to brackets each and the column. But IIRC the hazard switch red bit just unscrews and has a bulb inside it. Is that your problem?<br>
Once the red bit is off I think it just pulls out from behind....its the same as an HL switch so try it on one of them first.<br>
Jonners

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[Silvery]

It can be a pain to get the panel off though if the speedo cable's tight - But it's easy enough to undo from behind IIRC. Also I've had probs getting enoguh slack on the loom to pull the panel out very far - Can be worth disconnecting the plugs for the dash first too.<br>
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I think the switch is easiest removed with the panel out, three small cross headed screws hold a mounting plate for it tpo the back of the dash panel. Could be wrong though, the only one I've touch was on a Sprint panel with guages I got off Ebay, which went on my carmine tc - No hazards as original spec, so I wasn't going to fit them. Changed the switch over for the rear demist one (located to the left of the steering column on the TC).

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[Richard the old one]

This following many help anyone who has to remove the a hazard warning switch which is not covered an either the Haynes or Triumph workshop manuals<br>
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Many thanks for your responses but we have overcome the need to remove the instrument panel (complete dash as its a 1500SE) by discovering that if you first unscrew the red knob and then take out the chrom ring from the instrument panel you can just get at a plastic ring which holds the switch in place on the trianglar plate. The plastic ring unscrews and then the switch can be withdrawn out the back of the instrument panel. I had initially assumed that the switch had been moulded to the trianglar plate and that you had to get at the screws on the back of the instrument panel to get it out. Hence why we were attempting to remove the instrument panel / dash. <br>
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The problem was a heavy handed MoT man who managed to break the red plastic part and then push the part that pulls in and out back through the main body of the switch. It was then impossible to push it back without getting the switch out of the instrument panel.<br>
This resulted in a complete loss of indicators and a failed MoT.<br>
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I have also now been told that the 1500SE dash arrangement is the some as the Toledo.<br>
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Richard

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