Blank lcd panel

[PeterC54]

Hi, everyone. I'm new to this, so please bear with me.

Whilst driving the lcd panel showing fuel, mileage, trip and clock went blank. I'm told by a Skoda dealer that the whole panel needs to be changed at a cost of £500, and the keys will need to be re-programmed! The car is a 1.4TDi(70ps) Jan. 2010 with about 22000 miles on it. Everything else works as normal. Car starts and drives fine. Instruments and warning lights all work. Anyone know of this problem? Any help would be appreciated.

[fatuscatus]

Had this happen to me once a couple of years ago but it was only temporary. Can't quite remember how it happened but I think I may have turned the ignition off and then on again too quickly. I remember sitting there stationary with the engine running and a blank LCD display. Turned off and on again and all was OK. Never happened since. Is the LCD still dead?

[Tech1e]

Common issue at one point, there was a bulletin on it.

[PeterC54]

This happened as I was driving home five days ago. Looked down, no display. Not in rush to hand over cash to Skoda so plan is to log all trips to keep track of fuel. I'm carrying fuel can in case it coughs. I'm trying to be brave enough to see if the low fuel warning works. Should know in next few days. Will let you know. Car still drives fine. Apart from blank lcd no problems.

[alijell]

This has just happened to my car too. I googled it - found this forum, and found a suggestion - disconnect battery for a while, then reconnect. It worked!! Thank you !

[Robjon]

^^^^Welcome to Briskoda, PeterC54 and Alijell - and thanks for posting

[PeterC54]

Thanks, alijell, I'm off work Thursday, ~I'll give it a try. Need to get radio code first though. Got ex mechanic at work, see if he can get it for me.. I'll let you know what happens.

Thanks for taking the trouble to post.

PC.

[Tech1e]

You wont need a radio code if you are disconnecting the battery, it will program itself.

[PeterC54]

Thanks, Tech1e. I thought that was so, but nervous about trying it. Disconnected the battery tonight for about 30 seconds. Looked at panel after reconnecting and it was on, so much for Skoda Elmers End quoting £500! Thanks alijell. Switched radio on, it was asking for code! Then realised with ignition off code stored in instrument panel was not being sent to radio. Ignition on and radio learnt the code then worked fine. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to help, it is much appreciated. If anyone needs a used instrument cluster, diesel, circa April 2008, I have it sitting here. It is untested. Cost of p&p only.

[Tech1e]

The issue won't be fixed permanently by disconnecting the battery. It's a software fault so it just resets it.

[PeterC54]

  Thanks for the warning on that. I took the car out today and found the electric windows only move if I keep hold of the switch, I can't release and have them go completely open, or closed. Got the battery disconnected just now. Giving it longer than 30 seconds to see if it clears, closer to 30 mins.

 

  Right, just reconnected battery, gave it about 40 mins. Windows started off doing the same thing, but after 4, or 5, goes at operating them to full travel they work as usual now. So if, (or when?), it happens again I will know what to do. Again, thanks to all for the advice.

[Tech1e]

You have to reprogram one touch when the battery had been disconnected. To do this bring the window all the way up, release the switch and hold it up again. You may hear the click and then it's programmed.

[PeterC54]

I'll remember that for next time.. It seems I did that, accidentally, while I was cycling the windows. It seems there's a lot of these details that aren't obvious to the ordinary owner.

[greenfieldboy]

Had this happen to mine today. Parked it for an hour or so at a friends and it was working when I restarted the car.

Assume it's just a glitch in the software that switches the display on and off. First time it's done it in 5 years and 30k miles.

[stratosg]

A couple of times happened just to disappear the fuel column. It is a switch off -switch on to get that back.

Edited 8 December, 2017 by stratosg