Russ to English Instrument help, for us!

[soviet]

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

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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:

Edited 20 August, 2009 by soviet
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[chicken_eyebrow]

Did anything happen with sending the information about the faulty instrument panels to Skoda UK? If I remember correctly this is affecting most early model Octavia I owners on this forum with the exception of any with 1.8T engines.

[soviet]

Did anything happen with sending the information about the faulty instrument panels to Skoda UK? If I remember correctly this is affecting most early model Octavia I owners on this forum with the exception of any with 1.8T engines.

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:

[Felicia racer]

I had no luck from Skoda,

Ive gone to VOSA and the ministry of transport for help.

Legally skoda should replace the faulty components free of charge.

I got an email confirming that I will get a reply within 5 days.

So watch this space