Hi

I’m the owner of a Octavia 2 FL 1,6 TDI Greenline, where the instrumentcluster suddenly is dead. Nothing in the cluster is working - no lights, needles or displays.

As the immobiliser is going thru the cluster, the car also won’t run - it just starts, but stops after about 1 second.

All fuses are OK.

Has anyone had this before??? 🤔🙏🏻

Drove the car normally on wednesday, but as I would start the car on thursday, the problem was there - has never had something like this before.

Might be the connection at the back of the dash. Mine kept displaying weird warning lights so removed dash and the connector was slightly loose. Cleaned it up and reconnected it and it was fine. Noticed the dash had been repaired before which I think is a common fault. Mines an 08 1.9tdi You have to disconnect battery etc before  the dash is disconnected or it can activate imobilser as the dash I think is coded to car. Yours may have disconnected itself enough to activate imobilser. If this happens then I think you need VCDS to reset it.?? I would remove dash and check connector. If that doesn;t work then it may be the dash that has failed. There are a few companies that can check and repair them but again may need VCDS to reset once refitted

Alasdair