Has anybody opened up the Kienzle clock already?

[HolgerS]

My Sprint's clock is not working all the time. If you are driving and therefore the clock get's approx. 14V it works most of the time. If the car is parked with a fresh battery providing nearly 13V it works only from time to time but you can hear this ticking sound if sitting in the car even if the needle showing the seconds is not moving. Seems that only the needles (or how you call it in English?) are not moving always. Therefore I want to open the clock and take a look if I can isolate the problem. Has anybody done this already and if yes is it worth or is there nothing to fix in it and I would need to get a replacement anyhow?

[tinweevil]

Easy job, searching.....


.... found it

Be very careful of the plastic ring that holds the clock in place, they get extremely brittle with age.

Tinweevil

[HolgerS]

Easy job, searching.....


.... found it

Be very careful of the plastic ring that holds the clock in place, they get extremely brittle with age.

Tinweevil

Thx, will explore it on the weekend and hopefully get it fixed.

[Richard the old one]

I have not taken a clock apart so like a lot of other dolomite owners I would be most interested to read about how you get on.

Best of luck.

[HolgerS]

Finally found the time to sort it out today. First I removed the speaker cover on the top of the fascia (dashboard for the US folks) as I do not have a speaker installed there anyhow which gave me direct access to the back of the clock. Than I disconnected the cables and pushed out the clock slowly. In parallel I hold the plastic ring which fixes the clock so that it do not disappear when the clock is getting out. Everything worked fine so far.

Before turning my attention to the clock I connected a digital volt meter to the cables. It showed 13.0V which proved that the issue should be with the clock. So next test was to connect the clock to a 12V DC source where it immediatly start working fine I lowered the output to 11,5V and it still worked without problems So I thought it must be a problem with the cabling. As there is no separate earth cable and instead the one from the clock light is used I squeezed the opening where this light is pressed in a little bit tighter and did the same with the 12V connector from the cable and guess what it was the only issue and my clock works again perfect....