What happened to the screen?

[targa666]

On my trip today suddenly the instrumentcluster went all weird. Like an ‘80’s computerscreen…
Other than that luckily everything was in perfect working order. (In fear of more errors I immediately moved to the rightmost lane to be close to the emergency lane, found out it wasn’t necessary )

After turning the car off and on the cluster was fine again.

probably a coincidence: I had for once PID activated, this screenthing happened maybe 1-2 minutes after I turned on PID.

Very odd to see. Any ideas on the cause?

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[Jasper4S]

Wow, never seen this before. Did you try the two-finger reset? My uneducated guess is that it's either a temporary glitch or somewhere a wire seems to be a bit loose. I noticed the outside temp, so probably isn't an overheating thing.

 

[targa666]

Wow, never seen this before. Did you try the two-finger reset? My uneducated guess is that it's either a temporary glitch or somewhere a wire seems to be a bit loose. I noticed the outside temp, so probably isn't an overheating thing.

Never did the two finger reset yet. Isn’t that for the center screen when that freezes?

 

[Jasper4S]

Yeah, but it is also used as a trick to restart the PCM computers. Hold two fingers in the right corner of the PCM middle screen, and it will boot in maintenance mode. There, you have a quit button, and it will trigger the restart.

 

[chun]

There is a TSB for the middle screen having these symptoms, and from what I remember, it indicates a failing display due to heat.

Haven’t seen it for the cluster, but it could be similar

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