[Vwdiesel] Instrument cluster fail

[Roger Brown]

I've found clusters showing up from time to time on ebay.


On 11/15/2013 8:25 AM, Shalyn Shourds wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ugh.
>
> -Shalyn
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   Roger