Wtb over head message center

Im looking for a overhead message center for my 2001 f-350 7.3 , mine quit working

Found one please. Delete

where'd u find one?

eBay , new oem part, $179.00

I've repaired two or three of those for ZERO dollars...


In my experience, it's always the shotty soldering on the boards. They have surface mount components and I would bet good money that if you take your old one apart you'll see a resistor just hanging off the board somewhere. The board sits upside down in the truck so any bumps and bangs tries to crack the piss-poor solder job. The resistors drop away from the board and for a while you can usually hit it with your fist and they will flop back up and it will work a little longer.

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. 2 minutes with a soldering iron and you could have probably been on your way.


Maybe someone should do a writeup and make it a sticky. This is super common.



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Here's a picture. I couldn't find a writeup, although there must be one somewhere.





Those little surface mount resistors you see with the resistance values written on them are the culprits.

When I pull the unit out of the overhead console and look at it, on the top left-hand corner of the screen I can see a little black mark like it shorted so I'm not sure if it is the same issue as you described or not? if you want I will send it to you if you want to play with it maybe you can fix it for me? Lol

deerslayer64d said:

When I pull the unit out of the overhead console and look at it, on the top left-hand corner of the screen I can see a little black mark like it shorted so I'm not sure if it is the same issue as you described or not? if you want I will send it to you if you want to play with it maybe you can fix it for me? Lol

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If the screen went down then you're right, that is a totally different thing, and not fixable.

Man 179 dollars is kind of a kick in the sack. Im needing one but not that badly.

Yup it's steep but that's about half of what the ford house gets for one !!!

Petro said:

Man 179 dollars is kind of a kick in the sack. Im needing one but not that badly.

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So yours must also have a burned spot on the screen?

Charles said:

So yours must also have a burned spot on the screen?

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I beleive so. In one spot on the screen you can see a small black circle. Its just a little darker than the rest of the screen, Im pretty sure its a burnt spot. I may check the soldered connections like you said just to see if the screen is good but Im thinkin its not.

Petro said:

I beleive so. In one spot on the screen you can see a small black circle. Its just a little darker than the rest of the screen, Im pretty sure its a burnt spot. I may check the soldered connections like you said just to see if the screen is good but Im thinkin its not.

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Damn man. I've never seen one and you both have one. Probably would have been a simple fix otherwise.

Mine had a burn spot on it as well, but it works perfectly fine.

Well in that case I need to try and fix mine.

Mine had a dark spot in the corner, but you can't notice it when it is on really... There have been quite a few write ups on fixing them yourself on the forums, there was also a guy on eBay who would fix them for like $30 I know of a few people over on the .org that used him and were very pleased

Yep I definently need to get ambitious and do this now.