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Originally Posted by triumph2.5pi
Or, buy yet another cluster, risking the same issue yet again.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! :-)
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Do you have access to VCDS? If you do, and do consider buying another cluster, you can connect up the replacement cluster and then use VCDS to run some tests on the cluster. It does things like needle sweeps, seatbelt warning, all the warning lights and most importantly a LCD test. It basically switches on all the pixels in the LCDs, and if they are all working should give a solid block of colour. It will not however help identify the fading pixels issue.
Having said that, I suppose you could try and simulate the effect of a build up of heat, but you'd either need to pre-heat the car before swapping the clusters, or blast a hairdryer at the back of cluster. At least that way, I suppose you could then return it as not working 100%.
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