Digital Clock & Odometer Has Gone Blank

[par]

The 2 digital display parts for the clock & odometer on my daughters Fabia have went blank, will check the fuses when she gets home later but is there anything else this could be?

 

If its not a fuse I assume it will be a full set of dashboard clocks that will be needed.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[par]

No-one experienced this before?

[ReneR]

I'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing, but about 2 months ago and on the way back from the 40,000 mile service for my 2012 Roomster TDI 1.6 stopped over to run into a shop to buy something. As I pressed the button to lock on the central locking remote control, saw a traffic warden approaching so pressed open straight after, got in and drove away. Then noticed that the whole dot matrix display was partly frozen and partly blank. A little like when your PC freezes or something like that. I thought I would stop and call back to the garage to take it back in. Pulled over, stopped called and the line was busy, so decided to start driving back. Re-started and the display was woking again. Think that the quick lock-unlock was a little like re-starting a PC before it has had time to shut-down properly and hence the blank/frozen display. Never happened again since then.

[KenONeill]

Car is how old? There's a possibility that some of the oldest examples are starting to experience internal failures of the LCD panels.

[seanw]

Have you fitted HID/xenon headlights?

[par]

Car is a 2002 model 1.4, doesnt have the matrix display just 2 small LCD panels which show the digital clock and record the mileage.

 

Headlights are standard so I suspect the unit has now failed due to age.

[par]

All the fuses were fine but I spent some time cleaning the contacts as they appeared to have oxidised a bit and this seems to have cured it as the digital display is now back!

[mrgf]

I was bout to say disconnect and reconnect the battery. This often sorts out the fault.

[SKYHAWK]

I got a set mint condition not a mark/scratch 89k £30 delivered