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TBH mine is sorted now, I found that there are two manufactures of these clusters - VDO and Johnson Controls. The JC ones have LCD's connected by a connector, the VDO ones are soldered to the board in a way that would make them very difficult to remove. Mine was JC, so found another one with the exact same part number and swapped the LCD. What I did discover is that when connecting the incxorrectly coded LCD the car, for reasons best known to Skoda, removes the long code for the ABS computer. Which needs a computer, not VAGCOM, to recode it. But I have a working car, cost me about £500 so far.

Hey, The part of mine that doesn't work is the bit marked in this picture, as you've said my research also tells me the cluster affects the immobiliser. That's amazing information thank you so much! It's a 200mile round trip for me but I may just have to take that approach. As you say, hopefully he'll log in soon J

Hi, I've inhertied a Roomster 1.2 TSI, 2012 it's done about 25k miles. LCD in the cluster is blank, I've a new cluster and that appears to be working fine but of course I need it coding to the vehcicle. Is there anyone near Banbury/Oxford that can help or can someone point me in the right direction - I have access to the necessary software but limited knowledge on what to do. Thanks, J