GazzyB

Hi pikpilot when I adjust the brightness dial the whole dash gets brighter/darker (including the rev needle which is lit up) but the needles on the fuel, temp and speedo needles are dead as a doornail - they don't light up at all I'd potentially be keen to give fixing them myself at a later date, so if you could post a link to the thread in question? Ta. in the meantime if anyone else could recommend the best software and hardware to change the digital speedo would be great

Hi Everyone! my first post on the forum - I'm sure this may have been covered somewhere before but please be gentle I've recently bought a 2012 Octavia Scout, loving it so far but last night during my first night-time drive I found out that the needle lights for the fuel, water temp gauges and speedo don't work so its very difficult to see what speed you are doing! I've looked into getting the dash display LEDs sorted and looks like a right faff and very expensive for what is basically a 'blown bulb'!.. so I thought a solution could be to use the digital speedo at night, but that currently only has the option to display in Km/Hr... i understand that its possible to use a device to alter this setting in the cars computer but needs a tool and software to do so - I've seen VCDS which looks really expensive and also ODB11 and Carista which are cheaper but have some sort of subscription service ... if anyone could help me out by recommending what hard ware and software I'd be best getting on a tight budget to activate the MPH feature on the dash display, I would be very grateful - I don't think I will need it for more than just sorting that one feature, and possibly understanding issues behind warning lights in the future... thanks in advance ! Gaz