Good days work today, first was to replace my instrument screen. Many poss on doing this and to be honest it’s a pretty easy job, the car comes apart pretty easily compared to some other vehicles I’ve worked on. I didn’t disconnect the 12v or the high voltage power. Basically you can leave your power on and listen to your audio whilst doing all the work other than disconnecting the IC. Once I was at the point that the cluster was ready to be disconnected I powered down from the MCU and then disconnected the IC. As you can see my screen wasn’t too bad.
Removing the back of the IC is pretty easy, thn you have to detach the ribbons, the first pic shows the smaller ribbon in place and “locked down”
You then lift the black plastic flap up to release the ribbon
the next picture shows the larger ribbon locked in place
to release the ribbon lift up on the edge of the white plastic clip with you finger nail. Both sides need lifting, the image below shows the RHS clip released
I reconnected the IC and pressed the brake, my MCU fired up but my IC didn’t. A scroll wheel reset and everything worked perfectly.
Then I refitted all the trim, one point worth noting is the spacer that on my car was fitted behind the RHS vent facia fixing as shown below
So all fixed with a $350 used display off eBay and about 1 hours work.
Removing the back of the IC is pretty easy, thn you have to detach the ribbons, the first pic shows the smaller ribbon in place and “locked down”
You then lift the black plastic flap up to release the ribbon
the next picture shows the larger ribbon locked in place
to release the ribbon lift up on the edge of the white plastic clip with you finger nail. Both sides need lifting, the image below shows the RHS clip released
I reconnected the IC and pressed the brake, my MCU fired up but my IC didn’t. A scroll wheel reset and everything worked perfectly.
Then I refitted all the trim, one point worth noting is the spacer that on my car was fitted behind the RHS vent facia fixing as shown below
So all fixed with a $350 used display off eBay and about 1 hours work.