Jamesgil

Thank you very much Dean

@DeanVRS20VTThank you very much Dean for your reply and input. My initial thought was that after they programmed the transmission after its reconstruction that something went wrong with the 'programming' that caused this. Seeming as it was fine before the repair and now like this after the repair. I thought this because when you turn it on, for very brief milliseconds, I see the gears displayed as before, and then change to the current all highlighted display. Will search in the pinned useful parts thread to see if I can find out the part number of the small display. Just to confirm it is only soldering that is required, nothing needs to be reprogrammed, is this correct? Thank you very much for your help,

Hello there from the caribbean :), My Skoda Octavia is: Skoda Octavia mk1 (TOUR) 2006 1.9 TDI 8V turbo, diesel 66 kW (90 PS) Engine Code: ALH Trans. Code: FDB 171,000 km I wanted to ask your opinion concerning a repair I had recently done in my car. The automatic transmission was doing strange things, The car would be running and out of the blue the car would shift gears into 1st gear, by itself and the car would slow down abruptly, I don't know the name in english for this behavior but I am trying to describe it. Very dangerous behavior when it happened to me running the car. Fortunately I was not driving at high speed. The mechanic told me the transmission needed reconstruction because of the age of the car. Change of transmission fluids, etc. The mechanic did that and apparently reconstructed the transmission and then took it to a place to be programmed for the car. The car seems as normal and the gears shift automatically like it should but there is a difference from before in the instruments panel. Before, all the gears were listed and the only the gear highlighted with a square was the gear that was currently selected on the gear Lever. Pic Bellows it was originally. After the repair and transmission reconstruction, the instruments panel is like in the following Pic. All of the gears are highlighted and nothing changes even if you change the lever. I can see briefly when I turn on the car that the display is like before, but in a fragment of a second it changes to all of the gears being highlighted. (Pic below) Is this something that presents a problem for the car? and that I should be worried about or is it only aesthetic? Searched the forums but could not find a similar thread so had to make a new one. Thank you very much for taking the time to read this. Best, Jame