Quick Video showing how to solder the LCD screen into the cluster. Last clip is of soldering 4 blue needle LEDs onto the cluster with some solder paste.
I have a 98 2.8 and my cluster has always been messed I hate that I can't read it, glad you made this video cause I'm going to try it out, these cars are for electrical fuck ups and its very annoying! I had a problem with mine where I cut the car off and pulled my key out and the car beeps and tries to lock me in like I'm on the outside telling it to lock, and there's been nothing out there that I could find, so I figured it was the pump in the trunk because it sounds loud as crap, so I went to the junkyard and got one for like 12$.. Put it in and the problem went away,
I soldered mine but it doesn't turn on. I desoldered and bought another display. Will try again. I also bought leaded solder because I was using non leaded and having a rough time melting it.
Hello, I'll have to replace a immobilizer LED because a guy before me burned it. Do you have a idea, which type of LED is it? The owner said it was orange, from pictures I've seen it looks like 5050. Can anyone confirm?
mine used to fade as the car got hot or when the dash gets heated. But ive replaced completely blank displays and redone screens someone tried to fix with a cheaper soldering iron and electrical tape.
Thank you for posting this video, I'm about to swap out mine with a used one. My instrument cluster has an electronic issue with a short to ground, and my interior lights (backlights on dash a/c control, heated seat knobs, transmission gear selection stick backlights, door switch lights, etc, first wound not brighten, now are dead.) So have you had any experience with this part of the instrument cluster failing? Remanufacturing companies have not been able to help. I was hoping to get my original fixed as a backup for my 15 year old car LOL. (love how your soldering on you dining room table with the fine lacy table cloth)
@Nemesis2747 hey, if a couple of the "fingers?" or the connections on the board get lifted off during the removal of the old LCD Display is it possible too save or is the hole board shot??? Any help will be awesome!? Thank-you!
Twist counter clockwise and pull. The needle will not spin and you are twisting it out of the metal rod it sits on. Many other videos on youtube on how to remove cluster.
Thanks, but do I need the special tools or procedure? becuase there is an immobilizer brain on the cluster. I'm not sure what i should do when job done and install on the car
In theory, yes. Unless you damaged it, but why would you want that, for when the new screen doesn’t work? Screen doesn’t work properly anymore because over time the ribbon cable fails. In the proces of removing the old screen it’s not unlikely you’re going to increase the existing damage.
Its because I have a parts car that the screen is fine in so I wont have to worry about colors not matching like in the video. If I can de solder the one from the parts car and still be able to use it on the other car, that would be great.
For future readers: the cheap chinese display is made for Magnetti Marelli clusters (i have one on facelift AJM), yours is a VDO, so thats why it doesnt line up. The manufacturer is visible on the back of the cluster.
So even though the LCD he required was the VDO LCD, the one he used is for Magnetti marrelli ? It still worked? As long as the pins lined up it didn't matter that the ribbon was crooked?
@@saleemmurudker9639 exactly, but that doesn't always work. Sometimes it gets too crooked and you cannot close them back. You should use the one meant for your cluster.
@@Stevemc93 thank you so much for the quick response, the reason I ask is only because I have a Audi S6 and I have not taken the cluster out yet, but I have the wrong cable I think, I see his cable is offset where as mine the ribbon is in the middle, I was hoping that I could make it work because it will take too long for me to buy another LCD and then wait for it to get delivered to me
@@Stevemc93 but wait hold on, if he is using the wrong lcd and he is repairing his cluster from Audi A6 then that means I have the correct cable or am I wrong ?
I get em on amazon or ebay. The LED is 3528 and needs to be soldered on like that last clip. Hot air and tweezers to get em off. and polarity matters so put em in just like the ones you took out. Each turn signal has 2 of them.
