Thanks Alex.
I've got this poor warranty which came with the car, they make it near on impossible to claim/repay but I did and they paid for the IR locking sensor on the door..
I rang them with one day (three month warranty) to spare and logged a fault/claim. It's booked in with the main agent who I suppose will want to replace the dash rather than repair.
What might the cost be for a dash/cluster?
It worked OK this morning (black and white) and then turned yellow again.
Update, Dealer rang and said they were unable to replicate the fault (I emailed the pictures).
They tell me the only conclusion is to replace the dash/instrument cluster, £800 plus.
I said I couldn't afford that and would collect the car. He asked if he could keep the car overnight and offered to try something else? One last thing?
He appears helpful and keen to please but what else might he be able to do without replacing the dash. What might he try?
These clusters only have a plus and minus and 2 CAN inputs, it has to be a poor connection or a fault in the display driver latching up. There are many diodes within the IC,s and in the case of a poor ground connection the display will go to one of the colours there in. They are very easy to open up and power up on the bench. The guys at MB are not allowed to do this.
Actronics must be the best firm, at one time they only took in components from indies owing to that some folk sent the clusters in when it was not the cluster at fault, wasting much time.
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