information display issues
information display issues
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From: Colorado
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Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 695
From: New England
Other than that there are a bunch of options. Modulemaster.com does it as well as multiple members over at AudiZine (Mpower & K0mpresd).
An important thing to consider is whether you want a [relatively] cheap china LCD knock off or the actual OEM LCD. No matter what you get you will have an awesome display where every pixel works, but the OEM has much better contrast. The last I heard K0mpresd charged $140 for the cheap LCD and $240 for the OEM (which gives you an idea of prices: if you see someone offering an LCD service for under $200, you're probably getting the cheap screen). I had mine done at Modulemaster many years ago and it still looks and functions perfectly.
You will have to take the entire cluster out of your car (two screws and a bunch of wire clips on the back) and ship it to whoever is fixing it. This leaves some people with the problem that they don't have a second car to drive while it is getting fixed. You could MAYBE get it fixed in 4-5 days if you next-day-aired it, but that's still quite a bit of time to be without a working car. If your car does NOT have an immobilizer (usually '01 and older), however, you should still be able turn the car on and drive it in emergencies. You can use a GPS for speed or if you're really fancy you can use the HVAC diagnostics to display the speed where the temperature is usually.
An important thing to consider is whether you want a [relatively] cheap china LCD knock off or the actual OEM LCD. No matter what you get you will have an awesome display where every pixel works, but the OEM has much better contrast. The last I heard K0mpresd charged $140 for the cheap LCD and $240 for the OEM (which gives you an idea of prices: if you see someone offering an LCD service for under $200, you're probably getting the cheap screen). I had mine done at Modulemaster many years ago and it still looks and functions perfectly.
You will have to take the entire cluster out of your car (two screws and a bunch of wire clips on the back) and ship it to whoever is fixing it. This leaves some people with the problem that they don't have a second car to drive while it is getting fixed. You could MAYBE get it fixed in 4-5 days if you next-day-aired it, but that's still quite a bit of time to be without a working car. If your car does NOT have an immobilizer (usually '01 and older), however, you should still be able turn the car on and drive it in emergencies. You can use a GPS for speed or if you're really fancy you can use the HVAC diagnostics to display the speed where the temperature is usually.
Last edited by nm3210; Jan 17, 2013 at 12:37 PM.
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From: vancouver washington
Would a picture of it help? Haha
Other than that there are a bunch of options. Modulemaster.com does it as well as multiple members over at AudiZine (Mpower & K0mpresd).
An important thing to consider is whether you want a [relatively] cheap china LCD knock off or the actual OEM LCD. No matter what you get you will have an awesome display where every pixel works, but the OEM has much better contrast. The last I heard K0mpresd charged $140 for the cheap LCD and $240 for the OEM (which gives you an idea of prices: if you see someone offering an LCD service for under $200, you're probably getting the cheap screen). I had mine done at Modulemaster many years ago and it still looks and functions perfectly.
You will have to take the entire cluster out of your car (two screws and a bunch of wire clips on the back) and ship it to whoever is fixing it. This leaves some people with the problem that they don't have a second car to drive while it is getting fixed. You could MAYBE get it fixed in 4-5 days if you next-day-aired it, but that's still quite a bit of time to be without a working car. If your car does NOT have an immobilizer (usually '01 and older), however, you should still be able turn the car on and drive it in emergencies. You can use a GPS for speed or if you're really fancy you can use the HVAC diagnostics to display the speed where the temperature is usually.
An important thing to consider is whether you want a [relatively] cheap china LCD knock off or the actual OEM LCD. No matter what you get you will have an awesome display where every pixel works, but the OEM has much better contrast. The last I heard K0mpresd charged $140 for the cheap LCD and $240 for the OEM (which gives you an idea of prices: if you see someone offering an LCD service for under $200, you're probably getting the cheap screen). I had mine done at Modulemaster many years ago and it still looks and functions perfectly.
You will have to take the entire cluster out of your car (two screws and a bunch of wire clips on the back) and ship it to whoever is fixing it. This leaves some people with the problem that they don't have a second car to drive while it is getting fixed. You could MAYBE get it fixed in 4-5 days if you next-day-aired it, but that's still quite a bit of time to be without a working car. If your car does NOT have an immobilizer (usually '01 and older), however, you should still be able turn the car on and drive it in emergencies. You can use a GPS for speed or if you're really fancy you can use the HVAC diagnostics to display the speed where the temperature is usually.
2nd Gear
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 695
From: New England
Forgive me if we jumped the gun without explaining. Unless you're simply talking about how the screen can turn on/off (with the 'reset' switch on the wiper-stalk), we know that your driver information display is bad.
The LCD screens in the older Audi's have been known for quite some time to go bad after a while. Almost no one has one that looks good after 10 years. There are many ways for it to go bad; for some displays the whole screen fades out and you can't read anything while others have individual (or rows) of pixels go out to make the thing almost completely unreadable. The fix is to get a new LCD (some argue whether it's just the ribbon cable, but still). If you're an expert solder-er you could attempt to put a new one in yourself, but most people just send it into someone to repair.
The LCD screens in the older Audi's have been known for quite some time to go bad after a while. Almost no one has one that looks good after 10 years. There are many ways for it to go bad; for some displays the whole screen fades out and you can't read anything while others have individual (or rows) of pixels go out to make the thing almost completely unreadable. The fix is to get a new LCD (some argue whether it's just the ribbon cable, but still). If you're an expert solder-er you could attempt to put a new one in yourself, but most people just send it into someone to repair.
Last edited by nm3210; Jan 17, 2013 at 07:55 PM.
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