Dash issues

moag

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Just picked up my car from the painters after some b****** in a skip lorry deposited a piece of plywood on my roof and now I'm having a load of problems with the instrument cluster.

Basically I have no lights on the speedo, rev, fuel, and oil temp dials, however the light does flicker intermittently. None of the gauges are working and the DIS is dead.

Icons like handbrake, seatbelt etc are working perfectly

Scanned with vagcom and it didnt flag up an faults

Anyone have any thoughts? Im thinking dead cluster or bad ground?
 
Bad earth would be my first check... Earth faults can make the car do all sorts of funny things!
 
As advised on PM mate, grab elsawin to track down wiring points & maybe an idea to disconnect/reconnect 1 at a time as its only a iirc 26-32 pin connector so not to bad a job.
 
Got sorted today chaps. Pulled the cluster out and split it, wiped all the connections down with electrical spray and re-soldered a suspect joint. Hey presto working dash :p

Thanks for the help Nige
 
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