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It would be good information to know.

Hi kynastonp;1794054, My son already did translation for this one, as is the link and date. And so see this here:- http://briskoda.net/octavia-i/russ-english-instrument-help-us/154674/ Is this by a co incident now, that you also have seen this? This was done last week!!!!!! Soviet:thumbup:

Hi good old Soviet here, This link is coming from a Volkswagen Russ website here. I do not know if this repair is good one, but my son did as good translation for English speaking. http://briskoda.net/octavia-i/russ-english-instrument-help-us/154674/ Maybe this will help soon. Soviet

Hi chicken_eyebrow, Felecia racer may be better to answer this for you I think, as he is still doing this now, and so I am waiting also for this. Thank you for liking my thread, but my son is doing most of hard work for it. Kind Regards for you Soviet:thumbup:

Hi Good old soviet here, Riki of Italy made contact to me yesterday, and ask if I would check Volkswagen Russ website as for information that is new now for instrument panel. I now ask my son to put this to English as it may be help for Briskoda. aurelrica Briskodian Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3 Members Car: oktavia1.9 tdi Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts hi i'm riky from italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hi i don't know if you are realy russian but i said it worth the try there is a site http://volkswagen.msk.ru who has alot of technical stuff for wv and alot of things are in russian (the wv internal stuff too who cannnot find annyware else) you might wanna take a look. For the dash board problem did you get anny further?? did you control the resistors (if there is anny) connected to the v. regulators?? (i'll take a peak thiese days but for now i don't have much time..) Tks alot.... LINK TO RUSS WEBSITE FOR VOLKSWAGEN :- Ôîðóì Volkswagen Technical Site -> [ýëåêòðî] Ðåìîíò ïàíåëè ïðèáîðîâ Skoda Octavia TRANSLATE RUSS TO ENGLISH FOR US HERE:- Many owners of 8-10 year old Octavias have a problem with the dashboard needles failing. We needed to go back and look at the fault again, as we found some information on a UK forum. In many forums it is written that the cause of the drive for the stepper motors and the failure of the needles is the regulator, and by the way that is it. You cannot get to the panel easily, and so the needles need to be removed, to enable one to access two resistors which are located on the other side of the PCB and are acting as the stabilize , but when they get warm/overheat the start to inhibit the properties of the regulator. The resistors share a common point to the other side of the card, and so the solder on the connections for them needs to be made good again with a very small low wattage soldering iron. 1) Removing the indicator needles. Many people are having a fear of doing this operation, as they think that the needles are not strong enough to be removed without breaking, but there are no worries over this. It is good at this point to make a note of the exact position of the needles prior to removing them. Take two thin screwdrivers which broad blades, and put them either side of the needles bar and lever upwards, and do not worry about breaking them as I have already said that these are strong here. Do not also worry if the black cap comes off of the centre of the needle as this is replaced easily later, and is not a problem. 2) The connections need to be soldered and tested from these resistors on both sides of the board. 3) Disassemble the cover by bending the metal retaining lugs on the reverse of the PCB once the needles are removed. After soldering and reassembly, it is advisable to put the needle pointer to the end stop, but and error can be corrected with the dash board connected back in to the car. I then drove the car at 5km/h to show that the zero position was correct, or if further adjustment is needed. 4) The opinion of many is that there is no guarantee that the problem will not reoccur and so a transistor like heatsink could be fitted to the regulator as this also gets hot. [translation from Soviet’s son as help, means to fit a transistor type heatsink also to the regulator as per TO220 package, type I think) The solder connection from these resistors to the other side of the card, is common to all the sensors and are physically connected to pin 7 of the blue 32 pin main connector wiring loom socket, to the microprossessor. The slightest break in the chain (bad solder etc) will cause the symptoms that are described. (Stefan Alexi for Soviet) :singer::santa2:

Hi Nimay, I have this problem too, not long ago here. It is so easy to do this job yourself, and save money from the garage. It is taking around 1 hour to do this. If you need help, then I will tell you. Soviet

Never my sort of music, for this person is dead now I think.(BAD) I do not like screaming apparition, and it was always just noise for me. Soviet:rolleyes::thumbdwn:

Hi GarryC, I am very pleased that you have managed the job here, as you had bad luck also. Regards for you;)

Hi KenONeill, You are correct here again I am thinking as these plans are not good, and I would not be touching them with a badgepole. It is seeming that they are starting on you early here, by giving you this mail already, and you must beware of knock the door here and man with tape measure. Regards for you Soviet:rolleyes::eek::rotz::thumbdwn:

Hi simbo99, Thank you for help that you give me with my computer problem before here. Yes beware of 'cuppa from Mrs Soviet time' now I think. I do not know how Mrs Soviet is making tea, as it is as if coming from the volcano here, and is bubbling and fuming, and I am needing asbestos gloves always. I burn my mouth many times, and I always need to let it do cooling for 20 minutes. So strange I think, yes and maybe I am doomed. Soviet:):rotz:

Hi Clunkclick, Your explaination is serious one here, and i am aggreeing with you. May be there should be the free tin of musical beans to put on toast, for musical toaster. Soviet:rofl:

Hi Tailhappy, This is so true what your uncle says here as the woman have it so easy I think:rofl: I need the clock that is always part of me to keep going here, I hope. Soviet:rolleyes:

Hi MoggyTech, This could have been here, but when you are coming to my age you are woorying about different type of stiffness I think. Soviet, but life is in old dog yet I think

Hi gillywibble, As usual you are having wicked sense of humour, but not so funny for Soviet as he is now past halfway for 60 here. Poor Soviet:thumbdwn:

Hi cjb, I am pleased here that I crack you up, but with serious side I am noow more towards to 60 yers than is 50 now. I would not ever be doing these insurance plans, for reasons that you say here. Regards for you Soviet:)

Hi philc, I am having sympathy with you, but I give to you 5 years and the few weeks here. Soviet:rotz::thumbdwn:

Hi hussarman, Thank you for this link as put I did post this one before. Some one on Briskoda was saying that regulators are cause of fault but this was never confirmed here, and I was not finding this either, and no one has ever found fault with instrument panel yet I think, and not regulators either here. I did posting of Regulator details that you find here, to be of help for other guys, who were looking for fault here. Ideas here have been connectors, board print, componant electrical breakdown. I am thinking that it is componant electrical breakdown, but schematic is not availiable, and the panel access to do the faulting work is not so good, and so I did not find the fault here. My one before I retire, was higher technical officer, electronics/computing and I know about all this stuff, and so I made test rig, for the problem, but could not track the fault. I think that first I did the cure for the problem with the back panel connectors, but the problem happened again, and so I did the replacement of panel from salvage yard for £50, and then had dealer do ECU recode here. I replace panel 1U2919034A with one 1U2919034B which is meaning now that speedo is reading 10 MPH more than speed that I go, and extra 1,500 millage on odo meter. But this is not problems for me, now. I think that the only solving of the problem, will be Skoda Company, or Felicia racer taking problems to TVs watchdog, as he is saying here. Thank you for trying to help with this. Regards for you Soviet:rolleyes:

Hi chicken_eyebrow, I have found information here now, and have done registration with Vag Cat. I know now where this information is coming from, and so I say thank you. Thank you Regards for you Soviet:)

Hi chicken_eyebrow, I am wondering here where is the source of information for this. Where are you finding all dash panel numbers here? I would really like to know of this. Thank you Soviet;)

Hi westallc, I have MK1 Mine does this also and I do not worry about this, and so I think that it is normal here. Soviet

Happy Birthday for the Briskoda, and all the good nice people here, that make this. Soviet

Hi milkman, Have you tried taking power down, by disconnecting battery, and then try the inside door catch? If you have not tried this thing then maybe it will work here, and door will be open. Regards for you, and best of luck Soviet;)

Hi Good old Soviet here, But not so old Soviet I think, and hope here. It is now every time that I am turning on the TV here that I see advertisement for over 50 Death insurance plan. We have here Michael Parkinson, June Whitfield, and Cilla Black, and many more of these. Mrs Soviet and I, are the old ones now, and we see this on TV, and so I say to her that there will be the knock at the door shortly, and one of these celebreties will be standing with the tape measure in hand, and the sickly grin on the face. The last advertisement was with Liverpool Victoria here, for over 50 plan and there is the grey haired man sitting in the garden who is not the celebrity, and his wife or partner brings him a cup of tea, and I say to Mrs Soviet, I would have made a bet that that is a poison one, and I think that she has the tape measure in her pocket ready for this. Mrs Soviet is then giving me strange look, and so maybe she has the tape measure in the pocket too. Now that I am over 50, there are too many of the vulture birds making a circle I think. Poor old Soviet;):eek::rotz:

Hi BulletRob, Then we replace one lot of fiddling scum, with other lot in Uk, and so I say it is the waste of time. I am looking at history before Brown/Blair and we had the bad ones then also . I hate all politicians here before this, and so now I am correct. I am sometimes watching the cow boy films on TV, and I think it is the 'Fist full of dollers' with actor Clint Eastwood with the lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach. I remember here that Lee Van Cleef gives bandito Eli wallach the good kicking before he goes in to saloon, and then Clint Eastwood comes out of saloon here and, Eli Wallach makes complaints that Lee Van Cleef kicked me, then Clint Eastwood is doing this also, but harder now.. Then Eli Wallach is saying one Bast*rd is going in, and another Bast*rd is coming out. But he did need the two good kickings I think, as he was the very bad guy. This is like politicians I say, as one lot of B's are going in and another lot of B's are coming out. I do not waste my good time with any of this. I was seeing on Tv before that news people ask college younsters that have never done voting,'who will you vote for here', and they say Oh we do not bother with that load of Cr*p and I now think that these youngsters are the very clever ones now. They do not know enough of this' and are not caring anyway I think. Politicians are all the waste of time here, as even the ones that will now be having power have done the expense fiddles also. Soviet;):rotz:

Hi Stuart_J;, I am living in the town of Swindon now, and there is a hill here with bus stop, and opposite in centre of the road is two white bollards and small island for the pedestrian. This is going upwards on the hill. Any one here that is knowing of the town will be thinking of the Kingshill Road, which is what I mean here. When the bus stops here next to bus shelter then all traffic is behind this one is stopped, as nothing is getting past. Thank you Regards for you Soviet