Dash fault

[Alisims1989]

Hey guys,

I was driving to work this morning in my 2002 2.4T S80 and the dash froze up on me. All the lights outside the car continued to work, as usual, dipped beams, brakes and indicators etc but the dials on the dash froze in an abnormal position.
Fuel in the usual position
Revs were stuck at 1000, not moving
Speed was stuck at 0mph
Temperature was stuck on nothing
No warning lights were showing

After about 5 minutes of driving the dash sprang back to life before freezing again, this time with the following items being shown:
Fuel was reading empty, complete with the fuel warning light on, even though I had nearly a full tank
Revs at 5500rpm
Speed at 30mph
Temperature in middle of gauge, engine had heated up by then
Handbrake, ABS and rear fog indicators illuminated on the dash
backlight reduced to low level.
Both times LCD screens were working ok, showing me the gear selected, its an Auto, odo readings and the time.

At this point, I pulled over, turned the car off, and all the lights stayed on as above. locked the car and they were still in this position. After restarting the car 5 more minutes went by and the dash came back to life again and it was business as usual.

Of later I have noticed that my clock sporadically starts to change the time, moving forward or backwards without input from me, and the average speed/ mpg screen in the bottom left works some of the time but usually shows a garbled message.

Does anyone know what the cause of this may be? so far on my list to check is battery voltage, earth continuity and the state of the harness into the back of the cluster to check I am not getting a short.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ali

[Simon Jones]

Sounds like DIM failure. Lots of details on the forum about it & suggestions on places that can fix it for you.

[reggit]

As said above - faulty DIM (dash). There's a bloke on here Lukaz (spokulozik - I think is his user name) that fixes them, and very quickly.

[Alisims1989]

Thanks for the support guys, had a look around and sounds like the problem to me. I'll get in contact with spokulozik

Kind regards and merry Christmas

Ali

[GreenBrick]

Originally Posted by reggit

As said above - faulty DIM (dash). There's a bloke on here Lukaz (spokulozik - I think is his user name) that fixes them, and very quickly.

He is VERY quick, and gives a discount for VOC members :-)
Mine died totally and the lcd was corrupt before it went completely.