Excellent. You have a delicate touch with instrument electronics and don't break the components. Very well done.

Just the thing to watch as there's bugger all on telly. Love your videos for simple no nonsense diagnostics and repair. Keep it up fella.

I'm very proud of you, you're the craftsman with two right hands, thank you for sharing the experiences with us 🙏

Well what can I say you did again. After watching this video am going to be tickering with an old cluster at home, just to find out what makes it thick. It's always fun to watch you work. Thanks once more.

This is next level repair skills, 99% of garages would just of send the unit away!

Brilliant Louis, after the first two tests to see that the the cluster is getting a speed signal and also to see that the needle wouldn't move with the Autel test most of us would have just called the cluster, but not you, you went to the point of not only removing and stripping the cluster u then decided to strip the tiny fiddly motor, excellent stuff, u must have the midas touch because with my sausage fingers I would definitely broke it. Thanks Louis great video. Thank you so much. Kind regards Jay

Amazing work again, so pleased when you realised it had worked too.

Nice job mate! I had no idea that the "magic black tape fix" was so common. Some people really go the extra mile... In the wrong direction! Cheers and keep up the awesome work.

Hi. Ive been playing around with those bipolar stepper motors from an old audi a3. Ive build some kind of tester for those. It is based on 1 IC an arduino with 10 lines ofcode and an potentiometer ill be glad to send you schematics or even the circuit itself. You just plug in the suspected motor in and the needle would precisely follow connected potentiometers movement. Really cheap and quite simple solution. Just let me know if you would be interested i learned lots from you and it would be nice to pay you back. Great work!

I would hazard a guess you had it right at the beginning. Gearbox (cog) issue. I've seen well over a hundred of these type of dashboards with similar problems. All they need is opening and putting back together correctly. The burned stuff you saw is quite normal. Most have this discolouration. Either flux or more likely something there to stop the solder cracking over time. The brownish residue always looks cracked and dodgy. Your resistance measurements are correct for a good set of coils (brushless motor type of an idea). I might have had a couple with genuine faulty motors, the rest were the same scenario as yours. Dash been stripped to fiddle mileage or block out a warning light. The motors go faulty because the idiots are rough and push the needles back on without securing the spindle at the other side. God knows how considering how tight these motors are to get to bits but the stop position on the big cog gets jammed. All it needs is a finger on the other side holding the spindle while pushing the needle back on and there's no problem. Good vid, you got it working again. I wouldn't have thought it would fail again. Forgot to say, I first figured the stop position issue on the first one of these I ever stripped down. I was the original idiot 🧐 (Jesus, another essay 😬)

No parts required 😊 top work Luis 👌

Impressed . Really. That was a fine repair you performed and like you said . It can hold for a day but it might as well work till the car is going to the scrapyard . Well done

like always lm is my favorite best technician man thank you teacher actually cuz of you i become more confident to diagnose cars better than I was honestly I always proud of you I'm from Morroco

Excellent job sir I learn something from your video thank you so much

Fantastic job :) Nowadays usually things are replaced by another ones, producing tones of rubbish, old school is to fix anything and you can do it proving that on every video :) Great job :)

Very useful thanks lad, i replaced the entire unit, on my car, only to put everything black how it was because it through a key code fault on it, and the car wouldn't start, unfortunately because the new unit was way better, but now I'm gonna give it a go to see if with your help i can fix it, obrigado ;)

ESP light ? No problem, just tape it :D Excellent work with the speedometer! Have a nice new year!

I would have just broken the motor to open it and replace it. Seems the needle gets stuck at 70 km /h after the repair. Thank you for sharing your passion

Perfect repair

Excellent diagnosis and repair. Seasons greetings from Pennsylvania!

Another part swapping exercise avoided well done brother

an excellent repair video 👍

Exelent Luis.I did change some of those,but never opened one of them.

My dash/gauges on my 2009 scirocco has now failed 3 times since I've had the car.

What a brilliant detective job.

Great vid to many just fit new bits,good to see no parts needed well done 😁

Thanks for the video We need more .

Love the deeper look and repair Luis!!!!

Great job. Digging in to the problem to get the problem. Good tips

This man is like superman for cars 👍

Hello sir i have have bought a 2007 golf mk5 where it shows kilometers it show error if you press 0.0 it immediatly show the kilometers it does it everytime you put it in contact i have no idea of the issue, if you could help me thanks👍

Great job man, you helped me a lot for my seat wich uses the same motor/stepper Motor

Hi Louis another awesome fix. If this was as shown a breaker yard dash I wonder if it had a similar failure.

that wasn't a fix .. that was a superfix Christmas special, .. understanding is the key to the problem, I'm sure that's not the first time that happened.

Amazing diagnose and repair class, you can indicate that you have any video with a soldering tips, I'm still not sure if I doing this correctly, thanks

Mais um trabalho excelente, como sempre. Um Feliz Ano Novo para ti e tua família.

I also have a Golf 5 instrument who needs fixing. The display gets dimm when its hot outside. I have a used cluster which i will use for takings parts from. But my question is: How do you get the needles installed the right places? Or does the cluster recalibrate itself?

Hi! Problem didn’t was with coils...when someone put there silicon,he didn’t remove needles correctly and that toothed snail moved away...you weren't careful at that when you dismounted ;) gl

You get a lot alot rain mate but video all ways the best thank you and have a happy new year

It's surprising what can be fixed. I am the same if I can fix it without parts I give it a go. In real life a replacement cluster with programming would be a good money spinner for a shop so most places will not attempt to fix things.

Hello dear friend. i have seat toledo 2 2004 in display spidemoter and all not working(fuel temp too).ligts too.whats problem in my display?

Very good work thanks for sharing the experience with us

bravo. toujours un régal vos vidéos. merci

Great job, properly diagnosed and a good repair. I probably would have replaced that stepper motor but you got it done same day and at no cost. I don't like VW cars, everything electrical breaks in them, door locks, gauges, fuel pumps, relays, poor grounds etc etc etc.......... They are horribly unreliable and poorly made buckets of German air pollution, they are vile smelling engine oil burning emission rigging environment killing scrap. (Just my view, you are entitled to your own thoughts).

Thank you for the upload, usefull information insinde. Happy new year :-)

Vw bora hız göstergesi ışıkları açınca çalışıyor birde üzerine vurunca çalışıyor bana yardım edermisin arızayı gidermek için

Great repair as always. But I think that needles should be calibrated after putting in a car. As you can see in the movie, after repair is done the engine speed is showing above 1.000rpm which shoud be around 800-850rpm as it was before repair. Also when you have done needle test with autel the speedometer should go from 0 to 140mph (no over as it goes in your video) and stop at 60mph. But maybe I am wrong. Movie is very insteresting, great job.

Nice! The tape over the lamp most probably is for a system that the car doesn;t support. Someone wanted to avoid coding the cluster. :D :D :D

Brilliant !

Wow! Nice electronic skills. Didn't know an instrument cluster is so complicated. Well done! BTW is the speaker for the chime in the cluster or elsewhere?

That was good, but when testing the coil where you using a 5volts power from a multimeter or what?

Great video! It encouraged me to look at an instrument panel I have replaced already but maybe it could still be fixed. The leds that illuminate the digits for the speed and rev don't light up, but the ones from the needles and the other warning lights do. What I should look at first, in your opinion?

Hello, good job, you are the best forever, i learn many things from your videos thank you very much 😊😊😊

Great job, EXCEPT you left the tape on the ABS bulb!

Fascinating

very nice

Nice one. Time consuming though? Just a thought: if it fails or goes dicky again you could swap the temp guage with the speedo motor? Temp guage probably gets less use so is less worn? Done similar things like this before.

very nicely done..excellent job.

Perfect repair, thanks for a video 👍

In accelerater pedal sensor, why signals 1&2 having

Do you put a note on the invoice stating that the ESP light hasn't been covered up by you? Just to cover yourself...? An excellent video... Great diagnostics 👍

you did it very well

Great video! How do can we contact your for repairs?

excellent work

Very nice job! I'm very curious how much did you charge for the service

Good repair, nice video.

Skills 100%

Good job as always😃

Nice work i have a vw crafter van witha speedometer problem- it seems that the rev counter activates/ moves when the speedometer should and the speedometer moves as the rev counter should ! This happened after the the van was junpstarted Any suggestions what could cause this ?

I am curious how much you charge for a job like this

I would never cover over a warning light. Modern snowflake drivers depend on ESP to stay on the road. Furthermore some modern cars (probably not a Golf) have an unstable chassis so they depend on the ESP. if that car was in a crash someone could be in trouble. Not that I blame you as you just returned it how it was. I would do the same.

Hi , I drive VW Golf 5 1.4 patrol engine and 80 ps . My RPM goes over 4000 when I am at 140 km in 5th gear . Is it normal? Thanks.

Good job

mine is not working but is not the motor, when i put power + and _ it moves, when back to the car doesnt. its not the power source of the car, cause i put another dash and it works

why u didnt took off the tapes?. i mean, you can give this video as proof that the fault was there at the time that car went into your hand. i honestly felt much better to see the fault light all the time until i got it fixed rather than not knowing there's hidden fault (assuming the previous owner done that bodge job)

Great video as always good stuff can I ask what u use to de solder plz😀

Thank you sir for the sharing but I have a question about lost communication with a module when you have a power supply working for it and good ground but the module still not working so can you make a video about how to figure the problem will be on its board ? Again thanks for the efforts 😉

Can this problem give P0500 fault code? Pls tell me

like de portugal

can any one tell me about the latest ecm,s that update through oem portals and what this means for tunners and eeprom editing will it still be possible to flash at home or are we locked out

How can you just do that I love your love

Good job👌👌👌

nice repair, dangerous to drive a car with a faulty ESP because you will have limited control of the car when driving on slippery or icy roads.

did you leave the tape off the ESP light so the car fails its mot . least then the car can be repaired to make it safe

My speedometer is not working properly and gives a total wrong reading! It clocks all the way around when i would be only doing slow speeds. I have brought it to a mechanic 3 times and they cant seem to fix it. Can someone please give me advice on what might the problem be?

are the brake sensors fixable? or must be replace the unit?

my type of fix .no parts just a bit time

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Always raining

Congrats for your work. Im from Portugal, are you portuguese? Do you have social media ? (Instagram , etc)

What tool is that You use in that frame: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9SmrJyIrbDJk30.html

Bwilliant