Hello 

 

I have recently purchased a skoda octavia 11 plate from a dealership near me. Recently when driving at night I noticed my speedo needle and my rev counter needle didn't light up. I told the dealer about this and he has told me that they are not ment too. And the back panel lights up enough to compensate the lack of illumination. Is this true? Or are they ment to light up? Seems odd as the smaller needles for the fuel ect light up? 

Yes they should light up.

 

You either need a replacement cluster or a electronic repair place that's comfortable working with smd LEDs...

Covered in previous threads too. This one has a link in my post to a pdf which gives an idea of what is involved:-

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/454121-speedo-needle-led-blown/

 

There are companies that specialise is repairing the display panel quickly but at a price. A search on here should find one that others have used successfully.

 

there may well be somebody closer too you, but ive used https://cartronix.co.uk/ and can highly recommend them. they"ll replace all the bulbs, after all they"re all the same age and now as likely to fail. if you can get there, the repair is while you wait, otherwise you can courier. i made a day out of it. its easy to take cluster out yourself, saves money too! and they give a lifetime warranty on the repairs. 

steve.

 

How long ago did you buy the car and did the needle LED ever work?  (sounds like it hasn't),  Was this from a franchised/main Skoda dealer?  Any warranty? 

 

If you bought the car this month then I'd be having a word with the dealer as it *should* be their responsibility to rectify the issue.   When dealers start giving you cr@p responses such as 'they all do that' or 'they are not meant to', it usually is indicative of them talking from their @rses in order to avoid the expense of fixing something they know/have known about. 

 

I'd personally exhaust all possibilities of the supplying dealer rectifying this before you approach a 3rd party company, at your expense. 

 

 

The needle should/has to light up for legal reasons, return the vehicle to dealer and have it fixed under warranty as the car is nit fit to be driven at night due to a faulty speedometer not light up properly, infact i think it might even be an MOT fail, i'll have a check, i know it is on class 5L vehicles (minibuses up to 5 tonne)

 

Edit: it's not a MOT fail, but it should still work correctly for safety reasons.

Edited 22 August, 20187 yr by Ju1ian1001