Ladies and Gentlemen.

Please could you take a few minutes of your time to check your vehicle. With the ignition switched on, but not your lights, stick a coat or bag over the dash and see what illuminations you have.... No I am not joking, but I am peeved with this.

The pointers (needles ) should be illuminated, what I would like to know is your digits. I reckon that there is a fault on my unit; Skoda say there is no backlighting of your dash digits on most models, when the lights are off. So I need proof one way ot the other. Don't mean the dealer is wrong but could mean a fault from the factory and in my humble opinion this is dangerous.

Maxi Dot. If you have one of these toy's cold you look at the menu - settings and see if you can change the speed indication units. What can you select on the standard display?

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Sorry to be a pain about this, but when I get quoted B.S. I get peeved.......

Look forward to your help.

JD: @

You may know that in 2011 all new vehicles are to have Daylight lights in the UK. So if Skoda UK was so EU/UK law abiding why did the new Roomy have this facility removed? Noticed a price rise in LED strips and light units, even on Ebay.

Edited 5 July, 201015 yr by JDW

Most of the modern skodas I have seen have the dials< white pointers> Backlit

Mine are back lit..and on our Fabia 2 as well

mine are backlit, white pointers (also lit) with adjustment of the brightness next to the lighting switch

wiill try to take a photo as proof for your stealer who sounds more like a farmer with plenty of organic fertiliser to get rid of

mine is a 07 roomster 2

peter

You may know that in 2011 all new vehicles are to have Daylight lights in the UK. So if Skoda UK was so EU/UK law abiding why did the new Roomy have this facility removed?

The Scout uses the same foglights as the Fabia RS, which you can have with either fog lights or DRLs. I guess from 2011 it will be fitted with DRLs only as standard.

mine are backlit, white pointers (also lit) with adjustment of the brightness next to the lighting switch

wiill try to take a photo as proof for your stealer who sounds more like a farmer with plenty of organic fertiliser to get rid of

mine is a 07 roomster 2

peter

Thanks Peter. Its not only the dealer but Skoda UK state that the backlighting of your digits only operates when the side lights are switched on, the lady that I was talking to said it happens on her Superb. But for some Skoda reasoning they switch the pointer lights only when the ignition is switched on. That is what gets me, why switch the pointers, just switch the lot on with the sidelights.

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Take a look at the service interval.. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4577&id=100001234490515&l=5064d0e08a

Just keep the ammunition coming.

Thanks

JD

Edited 4 July, 201015 yr by JDW

Your dash is just unbelievably beautiful. Unfortunately mine is just like the middle one at the photo of the link

Maybe in the future... dream on baby hahahahaha

Edited 4 July, 201015 yr by stratosg

Your dash is just unbelievably beautiful. Unfortunately mine is just like the middle one at the photo of the link

Maybe in the future... dream on baby hahahahaha

yep, my dash is only illuminated when the sidelights or headlights are on, i look at it as a reminder to turn the lights on as it gets dark or go into a tunnel

i can confirm that is standard behaviour on all cars i have driven

peter

yep, my dash is only illuminated when the sidelights or headlights are on, i look at it as a reminder to turn the lights on as it gets dark or go into a tunnel

i can confirm that is standard behaviour on all cars i have driven

peter

Will modify this vehicle for daylight illumination when I get the leds that I have ordered.

Again thankyou Peter.

JD

i can confirm that is standard behaviour on all cars i have driven

peter

Yes.. I don't understand the problem in this thread anymore?

The only unusual thing is that the pointers are illuminated all the time. It is quite normal for the dash to only light up when the sidelights are on. Again, same on all cars I have ever driven!

Yes.. I don't understand the problem in this thread anymore?

The only unusual thing is that the pointers are illuminated all the time. It is quite normal for the dash to only light up when the sidelights are on. Again, same on all cars I have ever driven!

T81.

Most of the new cars I have since 2000 ( about 7) have had the dash back lights activated when the ignition is switched on, some sensed. Not to mention the facility to control the wick. Not all manufactures use this method but most design instrumentation to cope with the majority of ambient light conditions,, even the sport cars, had a few of them in my time.

The problem is the pointers, if these were not illuminated then there would be no distraction whilst driving.

It don't make any sense to illuminate the dash pointers separately from the dials. Have received photos that show the whole dash illuminated in daylight with only the ignition switched on. Which is the evidence I need to go back to Skoda UK or the dealership and get the problem sorted.

Seems this effects Skodas that have started manufacture in April 2010 onward......

Thank you for your input its much appreciated.

JD

RE: Service interval.

I think that the standard service interval is 15,000km which is actually about 9,300 miles. I think the car just converts the figure so even the book says 10,000 miles the car 'translates' 15.000km and nags you accordingly

Your dash is just unbelievably beautiful. Unfortunately mine is just like the middle one at the photo of the link

me too - but at least there is nothing much to go wrong...!

Facelifted Fabias also only illuminate the needles unless the lights are switched on. I'm not surprised at the dials not being lit all the time, the only car our family has ever had that backlit the dials permanently was a Citroen. None of my Skodas has done it. Nor did my 2 Suzuki Swifts or the Hyundai Coupe.

I used this feature of cars to show when I should be putting my lights on. If it was hard to read the dials, it was dark enough for headlights. Not sure why this is suddenly a big deal?

Edited 25 July, 201015 yr by Mike Wrightson

Facelifted Fabias also only illuminate the needles unless the lights are switched on. I'm not surprised at the dials not being lit all the time, the only car our family has ever had that backlit the dials permanently was a Citroen. None of my Skodas has done it. Nor did my 2 Suzuki Swifts or the Hyundai Coupe.

I used this feature of cars to show when I should be putting my lights on. If it was hard to read the dials, it was dark enough for headlights. Not sure why this is suddenly a big deal?

yep, now you mention it my first diesel a citroen BX 19RD did have the dash lights on all the time, also that strange rotating speedo

i got the know the hydralic suspension intimately after having to change the front subframe and most of the pipework, very simple once you work out what pipes do what

strange having a handbrake on the front wheels as well

peter

Facelifted Fabias also only illuminate the needles unless the lights are switched on. I'm not surprised at the dials not being lit all the time, the only car our family has ever had that backlit the dials permanently was a Citroen. None of my Skodas has done it. Nor did my 2 Suzuki Swifts or the Hyundai Coupe.

I used this feature of cars to show when I should be putting my lights on. If it was hard to read the dials, it was dark enough for headlights. Not sure why this is suddenly a big deal?

Mike, this is about removing the Kmph from the silk screen of the dials. The new dials have a problem. The Mazda, Honda , Peugeot (406 Ex and Boxer) Citroen Xara think its better to stop at this point. All of them did not display this sudden black out of the dials albeit in bright sun or daylight reflective problems caused by tree lines. This is linked with the Maxi dot and DRL and is a fault.

For you youngsters the dials used florescent silk screening on some vehicles. The funny thing is that you Mike say your other vehicles are OK yet others do not, also the Skodas in certain continental countries don't seem to have this problems, the pointers and dials are illuminated buy the ignition, maybe something to do with day time running lights that was botched on the April 2010 manufactured UK models (new face lift). See other topics. But herself can get the vehicle checked out in France or Germany on her travels, done my bit.

For all of you. May be a senior but I do now when to switch the lights on... LOL....

JDW

@jdw

these youngsters do not know the fun we had in the old days

my first car was a triumph herald, no synchromesh on firsh,only 4 gears, top end 70mph downhill with wind behind, manual choke, hand operated screenwasher pump, no such thing as self cancelling indicators, drum brakes all round, service included setting the gap on point and checking the condenser,dynamo not an alternator, ordinary bulbs, halogen head lights were expensive and only 2 fuses for the whole car

but the thing was you could always get home as there was no electronics to go wrong as there was so little to go wrong

i must admit i am not that old (wrong side of 40 but right side of 50) but remember the fuel crisis in the 70's and fuel at 50p / gallon or less

peter

@jdw

these youngsters do not know the fun we had in the old days

my first car was a triumph herald, no synchromesh on firsh,only 4 gears, top end 70mph downhill with wind behind, manual choke, hand operated screenwasher pump, no such thing as self cancelling indicators, drum brakes all round, service included setting the gap on point and checking the condenser,dynamo not an alternator, ordinary bulbs, halogen head lights were expensive and only 2 fuses for the whole car

but the thing was you could always get home as there was no electronics to go wrong as there was so little to go wrong

i must admit i am not that old (wrong side of 40 but right side of 50) but remember the fuel crisis in the 70's and fuel at 50p / gallon or less

peter

Peter.

Wont see 6O again. LOL was going to buy a Royal Enfield GT but me mum got worried about me and two wheels so I got a 105E (Anglia) but did naughties to it with out her knowing. The Cosworth used to move. Talking of petrol price,s in those days always remember getting a gallon of National 101 for a few bob. The funny thing is that those old dashboards used to work, remember oiling the cable to stop the pointer from doing a jig. As for drum's I remember the first jag with discs and the little warning badge on the back, bikers clocked that as they flattened their face on the boot. The Cobras that upset a certain Chief Constable on the M1. Those where the day's.

JDW

@jdw

these youngsters do not know the fun we had in the old days

my first car was a triumph herald, no synchromesh on firsh,only 4 gears, top end 70mph downhill with wind behind, manual choke, hand operated screenwasher pump, no such thing as self cancelling indicators, drum brakes all round, service included setting the gap on point and checking the condenser,dynamo not an alternator, ordinary bulbs, halogen head lights were expensive and only 2 fuses for the whole car

but the thing was you could always get home as there was no electronics to go wrong as there was so little to go wrong

i must admit i am not that old (wrong side of 40 but right side of 50) but remember the fuel crisis in the 70's and fuel at 50p / gallon or less

peter

Hi Peter

I have just looked at a dash of a 2008 Scout, its totally different the digits really stand out. So what I have is a dash that has been designed for DRL and some dipstick has removed the DRL facility. Oh well glad to get to the bottom of this, let the better half deal with it from now. God help Skoda.

JDW

talking of national fuel, i still have a smurf mug in the cupboard from one of their promotions they did in the early 80's

peter

Edited 28 July, 201015 yr by bluecar1