99 astra speedometer problem?

vwhead

My clocks in my astra mk4 are working perfect other than the mileage is blank. When i bought the car 2 and a half weeks ago the mileage was completely blank but the other night when i was sitting in it its lit up but i could only see bits and pieces of the letters and is now not working again.

It's an lcd screen so shining a light on it wont show the mileage :P Does anyone know how I would fix this. I am going to look at the fuses tomorrow and if its the clocks what other year of astras clocks will fit mine. Does it have to be 99 to 99 or can i take clocks out of a 03 02 and put them in mine ? Any help is a great donation

biko

Couple of suggestions from the net, did you already see them?
http://www.autobanter.co.uk/uk-rec-cars-maintenance-car/9268-vauxhall-astra-1999-digital-odometer.html
http://www.howtomendit.com/answers.php?id=119074

vwhead

biko wrote: »

Couple of suggestions from the net, did you already see them?
http://www.autobanter.co.uk/uk-rec-cars-maintenance-car/9268-vauxhall-astra-1999-digital-odometer.html
http://www.howtomendit.com/answers.php?id=119074

yeah i seen them mate was thinking it was a bulb too but then if it was the bulb it wudnt have lit up bits and peices the other night and then go completly blank again would it ?

discodavie

These do have problems. ,

There is a bulb behind the LCD display , the only problem is that the whole dash has to come out to replace this €3 bulb.

Best of luck. Took me over an hour.

biko

It might be the screen itself but start with the bulb.
Without a working backlight you can't see the screen properly to start on that.

vwhead

Yeah I'm hearing a lot about these having problems with the mileage screen not actually that hard to get into I'm going to have a proper crak at it tomorrow as was to dark this eve to go the whole way with it and I'll let ye know how I get on

vwhead

discodavie wrote: »

These do have problems. ,

There is a bulb behind the LCD display , the only problem is that the whole dash has to come out to replace this €3 bulb.

Best of luck. Took me over an hour.

i got the clocks lose diseve but didnt go any further because it was dark. but what you do is you put your steering wheel to the lowest position and pull it as far back as you can. when you do that unscrew the screws holding in the speedometer surround and pull it out just leaving the clocks in place.


you will see a white clip at the top of the clocks push it up and then pull it left and it will slide to the left and then unscrew the two screws at the bottom of the clocks and there lose all you do then is push one side of the clocks down into the dash so they are facing left or right and then just pull them out and un clip the electronic thing i forget the name of it and there out

vwhead

ok so today i got clocks out as i havent had the time to the last few days but yeah its done exactly how i described and if anyone is tempeted to do it please pm me before you put them back in because thats where it get tricky anyway when i had clocks out i just screwed them into place didnt bother connecting them up as it was gettin dark so turned on the car and noticed my powersteering wasnt working drive foward and back a few times locking it side to side as much as i could in the space i had to move and then it started working again any ideas what this could be low on fluid maybe ?

Stoolbend

It could be that its not charging with the clocks out as the battery light is disconnected.

The Astra has an electric power steering pump so try reconnecting the clocks first.