W203 Facelift - LCD screen ( multifunction screen ) problem

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Remmoc

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Yeovil
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C180 Kompressor
And the problem is - the screen has gone white , writing is all there ( just ) and appears to be yellow .
At night with the lights on it goes even brighter and the writing is unreadable.
From what i can see it is still working , clock , mileage , gear selection etc is all there in a faded yellow .
Any idea whats going on please .
Only happened a few days ago when it got really cold , its not recovered since
 
So the digital / LCD display on my dash has gone and failed , well its almost white but the digits are all there ( just ) .
AFAIK the dash is specific to the car , in other words i cant fit a dash from a scrapped car or i loose total mileage .
Would it be even remotely possible to swap the LCD bit from a scrapped car with a matching part number .
Strangely my cluster number only seems to come up as a 2 door coupe , mines a 4 door saloon
Pic 1 , lights and engine off
Pic 2 engine running
Pic 3 is the label on the back of the cluster
Any clues before i sell the thing on - its driving me nuts
 

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The same thing used to happen with my old Audi. The solder joints on the PCB for the LCD "dry" and crack giving poor connections (poor, not no connection).
It is a REALLY specialist job to replace or resolder the tiny joints.

Your cluster is probably coded to your car but it should be possible to "Virginise" a second hand cluster and re-code it to your vehicle.

Hope that helps.
 
Ive done a fixorage
Some of you might remember the LCD screen on my facelift C180K when white .
Well just for the record you CAN swap just the screen from a second hand cluster and the screen is just plug in
 

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