This happened while the car hasn't been driven for a couple of weeks,  it's a 1.4 MPI 

 

The headlights and braking lights etc. work, so does the radio and the wipers and the car drives just fine, it's just that you're driving it entirely by feel, and won't even know how much fuel you've got left. The strange thing is how it does momentarily turn on, and how the radio and other things work. 

Please tell me this is an easy to fix issue ;D 

 

Super grateful for any responses, going through a tough time and need this car to work. 

I'd be thinking about bad solder joints in the instrument cluster.

3 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'd be thinking about bad solder joints in the instrument cluster.

 

So not an easy fix then. Needs a mechanic/ electrician?

You could try removing the cluster (very easy) and remove the two plugs, give all the plug and socket contacts a spray with contact cleaner and plug & unplug them a few times & then try it. I have had dodgy plug connections on my cluster like that. The cluster plugs seem a bit fussy. Failing that, it could be a bad solder joint as said above.

 

Also worth checking that the relevant fuses don't have corroded contacts or loose sockets in the fusebox.

 

34 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

Also worth checking that the relevant fuses don't have corroded contacts or loose sockets in the fusebox.

 

 

Good shout. Fuses 1 & 16 by the looks of it.

 

 

 

Thanks everyone, I will check all that!