Changed and made it colourful :-)

Ady1985 · Post by **Ady1985** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:28 am

Got the climate control and mfd screen changed, just rest of buttons and dials to do

And ideas on the mfd as can barely make it out and missing some pixels, anyone know anyone who can repair these sat nav screens? Or anyone have a good one for sale?

markw · Post by **markw** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:33 am

Lines across the mfd is a common problem with the screen as it ages. It's a fault with the way the flat ribbon cable attaches to the glass conductive area.
Some attempts to repair the ribbon cable have been tried, some with short term success, some with complete disaster.
As far as I'm aware, they're not repairable....even companies that supposedly specialise in the repair of these screens have shyed away from them.

Good ones are pretty rare on the second hand market and would probably have a short life anyway due to their age,

Can the brightness be reduced on yours to make it more legible? It looks a bit 'flooded' in the pic.

Ady1985 · Post by **Ady1985** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:52 am

Brightness all the way down and even tried negative setting, gonna try some window tint on plastic in front of the leds to see if it calms it down a little as was readable with original leds in

markw · Post by **markw** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:19 am

This one's just appeared on EBay, but as you can see, it already shows some failing pixels.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/display-for-p ... 19f645043e

Ady1985 · Post by **Ady1985** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:23 am

In better nick than mine, cheers for that ;-)

dirtydirtydiesel · Post by **dirtydirtydiesel** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:50 pm

I could be wrong but I.I.R.C Gingermagic had a good one up for grabs

GingerMagic · Post by **GingerMagic** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:57 pm

No, sorry - I gave mine to Eric to wave his magic wand over ( well, fit a fan on it ) and its now in my GLX. I kept this type C as it looks nicer than the type B - even though my type B is fine.

Someone on the coupe forum had a friend who successfully restored one, but I think it may have been a one off...

Keep looking though, and always get a picture of one working before bidding.

P.S. how did you change the LEDs, I quite like the blue.....

Ady1985 · Post by **Ady1985** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:18 pm

Leds soldered to the bored ;-)

GingerMagic · Post by **GingerMagic** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:21 pm

Oh, thats something I will definitely f'kup.....

I've always liked the Orange....

Ady1985 · Post by **Ady1985** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:24 pm

Hahahaha fiddly job but with the right gear it's all good and simple, the mfd is getting not so bright leds in to see if that helps and some more plastic behind screen to soften down the glare to see if that makes it readable, been looking at indiglo kits for the speedos but as it has bulbs in the dials may just wet and dry the orange off the back of the faces and put led bulbs in there

benczuk · Post by **benczuk** » Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:30 am

Blue dials has been done before here, see http://406oc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=28&t ... ls#p172836 for pics

Ady1985 · Post by **Ady1985** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:12 pm

Changed a lot now including dials [emoji12]

rwb · Post by **rwb** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 8:05 pm

WOW

That's just brilliant: both the skill to do it and the final effect. Those dials wouldn't look out of place in a Jag.

Ady1985 · Post by **Ady1985** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 9:43 pm

Can get them dials from moman.pl

406oc.co.uk

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