you sir are a legend I have an 2012 Audi s3 same problem as the video and did what you did and bam £185 saved thanks to your video :) 100% subscribed to you
Glad it helped, I was sending these away to get repaired for my customers, you can't drive the car with the dash out as it's part of the immobiliser, so customers were without a car for 5 days whilst I waited for the repair and return! now I fix them for half the price and turn it around the same day 👍
@@melsmotors yes i understand because i live in north wales and a lot of garages wont look at them so takes a lot longer to get back and a lot of money to send off for repairs but lucky i found your video and not even taken me 30 mins and £0 spent but out of a lot of videos only yours had my problems and super easy to fix thanks for the video keep keep up the great work
Mine did this too. Turns out just unplug the battery and start it with it unplugged. Then connect it again and it should start right up. My theory is, the capacitors and transistors of the cluster just needed a reset.
My mk2 8j has this at the moment, replaced battery today thinking it was battery drain but still doing it. I also tried switching on with battery disconnected but didn't do the trick and still not working. Dash flickers when I turn ignition over and I can see DEF above mileage, but then all goes black again with no gauges working but airbag light, exclamation mark, abs and steering wheel lights all illuminated
@@cameronandy84 I took the instrument cluster out, disassembled it, cleaned all the contacts with a cotton bud dipped in contact cleaner and then reassembled. It did the trick on mine bit have read a lot of the time it's the cluster on its way out. Apparently another one of the mk2 tts common faults. I think a place in Havant near Portsmouth refurbs them for 150 quid if urs needs doing
Wow gracias a ti me ahorre una la nota, hice el procedimiento pero yo no use Cautín solo use liquido para limpiar piezas eléctricas y le talle y así le quite todo el sarro y quedo gracias 😊
Impressive bit of tech repair. A bit beyond my skill set, though. My wife's 2002 has a bad fuel gauge and the info display has lost segments. Really sad part is that we haven't really used this car since 2015, and at that time everything still worked perfectly, but the wife didn't want to sell her "little car", as she only drove the Ford Explorer. Keep the car in the garage. Trickle charge on the battery, once a month drive a few miles then back into the garage. Once a year state inspection and renew registration. Fuel gauge failure was five years ago, but the info screen still showed miles to empty. Now the info screen is essentially gone. Two lessons here. One, if you don't use a car, don't keep it. We could have gotten a decent price if we had sold it in 2015, but now the dash will scare people away and probably cost as much to repair as we could sell it for! Second lesson: Don't buy a product of Volkswagen-Porsche-Audi. My 2000 Subaru with 235k miles still runs perfectly. Everything works.
Just bought a 2002 225 yesterday with this problem. Recommended some co. over on the mainland who will fix and return for around £180 but I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron and multimetre so wiull give this a go when I see it next. Which dianostic tool are you using and could anyone recommend any software or OBDII connector I could use with a laptop to run diagnostics? Great video, thanks and greetings from Northern Ireland.
Buy a used dash off ebay as a donor, much cheaper and easier to find than buying new parts, most of the parts are the same through the VAG group, VW Golf, Seat, Skoda etc
@Sydneywide1 the dials are not always set to zero, especially the fuel and temp gauges, this isn't a tutorial video, it just shows the way I do my repairs, if you wish to have a go yourself and follow my video you can choose to use tape or not! 😉 Good luck 🤞
you sir are a legend I have an 2012 Audi s3 same problem as the video and did what you did and bam £185 saved thanks to your video :) 100% subscribed to you
Glad it helped, I was sending these away to get repaired for my customers, you can't drive the car with the dash out as it's part of the immobiliser, so customers were without a car for 5 days whilst I waited for the repair and return! now I fix them for half the price and turn it around the same day 👍
@@melsmotors yes i understand because i live in north wales and a lot of garages wont look at them so takes a lot longer to get back and a lot of money to send off for repairs but lucky i found your video and not even taken me 30 mins and £0 spent but out of a lot of videos only yours had my problems and super easy to fix thanks for the video keep keep up the great work
I have an 09 S3 with the same problem, does the cluster dismantle the same as the TT?
Mine did this too. Turns out just unplug the battery and start it with it unplugged. Then connect it again and it should start right up. My theory is, the capacitors and transistors of the cluster just needed a reset.
My mk2 8j has this at the moment, replaced battery today thinking it was battery drain but still doing it. I also tried switching on with battery disconnected but didn't do the trick and still not working. Dash flickers when I turn ignition over and I can see DEF above mileage, but then all goes black again with no gauges working but airbag light, exclamation mark, abs and steering wheel lights all illuminated
@@Gaming_Guru24 Mine is doing this at the minute, did you get to the bottom of it??
@@cameronandy84 I took the instrument cluster out, disassembled it, cleaned all the contacts with a cotton bud dipped in contact cleaner and then reassembled. It did the trick on mine bit have read a lot of the time it's the cluster on its way out. Apparently another one of the mk2 tts common faults. I think a place in Havant near Portsmouth refurbs them for 150 quid if urs needs doing
@@Gaming_Guru24 Yes, mine has done it today for the first time. Thanks for the response.
Wow gracias a ti me ahorre una la nota, hice el procedimiento pero yo no use Cautín solo use liquido para limpiar piezas eléctricas y le talle y así le quite todo el sarro y quedo gracias 😊
Impressive bit of tech repair. A bit beyond my skill set, though. My wife's 2002 has a bad fuel gauge and the info display has lost segments. Really sad part is that we haven't really used this car since 2015, and at that time everything still worked perfectly, but the wife didn't want to sell her "little car", as she only drove the Ford Explorer. Keep the car in the garage. Trickle charge on the battery, once a month drive a few miles then back into the garage. Once a year state inspection and renew registration. Fuel gauge failure was five years ago, but the info screen still showed miles to empty. Now the info screen is essentially gone.
Two lessons here. One, if you don't use a car, don't keep it. We could have gotten a decent price if we had sold it in 2015, but now the dash will scare people away and probably cost as much to repair as we could sell it for! Second lesson: Don't buy a product of Volkswagen-Porsche-Audi. My 2000 Subaru with 235k miles still runs perfectly. Everything works.
Just bought a 2002 225 yesterday with this problem. Recommended some co. over on the mainland who will fix and return for around £180 but I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron and multimetre so wiull give this a go when I see it next. Which dianostic tool are you using and could anyone recommend any software or OBDII connector I could use with a laptop to run diagnostics? Great video, thanks and greetings from Northern Ireland.
My rpm gauge doesn’t work. Thought of replacing rpm motor, seems super easy. Ty
Thanks it was same issue with my wifes car.
Where would l buy parts,if needed,for my 2002 TT cluster
Buy a used dash off ebay as a donor, much cheaper and easier to find than buying new parts, most of the parts are the same through the VAG group, VW Golf, Seat, Skoda etc
Where did you get the speedometer motor ?
From a used clock we had sitting around, as far as I know they're not available to buy.
looks to me like the rear board will come off without touching the gauges, or am i seeing it wrong?
There's always another way to do things, this just happens to be my way! thanks for watching
My MK2 3.2 has literally no lights at all and starts then shuts off immediately, and my radio asks for a PIN. Would this fix my problem
HI, Sadly I have no idea? What are the fault codes?
What was the purpose of the masking tape. You just set the dials back to zero.
@@Sydneywide1 yes, setting back to zero 👍
@@melsmotorsYou can see the zero through the masking tape. So if the masking tape was not there, you just set the dial back to zero.
@Sydneywide1 the dials are not always set to zero, especially the fuel and temp gauges, this isn't a tutorial video, it just shows the way I do my repairs, if you wish to have a go yourself and follow my video you can choose to use tape or not! 😉 Good luck 🤞
@@melsmotorsGot it. I do appreciate you taking the time to make these videos, They help a lot of people Cheers