[Vwdiesel] Instrument cluster fail

[Shalyn Shourds]

The odometer on my '85 Jetta died forever ago and I recently got motivated to fix it.  So, I removed the cluster as gingerly as I could being paranoid of the flexible circuit board, packed it up, and shipped it to a speedometer repair place.  Just got a call that when they opened the box, both the connector ends are broken off the circuit board.  Apparently, I underestimated the rigors of shipping and overestimated my packaging.

So....any thoughts?  I don't see myself finding one of those at the dealer or even a junkyard.  I dread the thought of a week straight over a solder iron splicing wire in, but I guess I'll do it if it's even possible.  

I guess the other option is to wire in gauges, but that would end up looking like overblown steampunk at best, junior high science project at worse.  Neither is a goal.  

Ugh.

-Shalyn