Dudes,

my instrument cluster went dead these days, so I have disassembled it to assess what was going on.

I was hoping there was nothing wrong with the instrument cluster. I thought that it was something wrong with the plugs.

Nope! A major short circuit happened, the board as fried!

Look at the pictures below, has anyone experience a similar thing? how I'm supposed to fix it?

Thanks a lot, I'm kind of scared right now.

The car is a 1995 A4 B5 1.8 20V, ADR.

I left it at the repair shop to do a water pipe service, when I got it back my instrument cluster was not working. So I took it back to the repair shop. When the guy disassembled it, I knew the things were not going to be easy...

 

I just pulled one out of a 2000 a4 1.8t today that my brother is parting out. I will upload pics tomorrow of the back side of it, not sure if its the same cluster or not. Had to unclip 3 plugs on the back hand side.

 

I think 2000 won´t fit. this cluster is from 95 to early 98, but I hope you bring some good news to me. thanks a lot for your help.

 

I know a guy who has a couple of clusters. How many plugs, shape, color are on the back? And what does the front look like?

 

no lcd, 2 plugs (blue and yellow), it is a "type 1 cluster" without lcd. I´ll post pictures later, i´m at work right now.

 

The one I pulled has 3 plugs on the back and LCD. Wish I could help you out on that one. It was worth looking into though.

 

dude thanks a lot, I´ll probably get some cluster at ebay.