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Did a quick search but very little on it suggesting not that common?
Have the Comfortline version of the MFD.
Twice in the past few months the MFD has "blacked out" ie nothing visible but there is still a faint red glow in the background suggesting it is getting power?
First time I noticed it not working having just driven out of the garage (ie car had not been parked in the hot sun). Nothing at all, stayed off despite turning ignition off and restarting a few times. Then, after being parked for a few hours (in the hot sun funnily enough) it was working normally and has done so since.
Today I watched it black out as I was driving - initially everything went but that horizontal line and then a few seconds later a bit of a flicker and all went blank. It remained off for another 15 minutes, and then having parked the car for a few minutes upon restarting all fine again.
Clearly an intermittent fault that seems to fix itself, like a few other little gremlins I have had with this car (the passenger door not unlocking, the cruise control not turning on occasionally), so I am not going to rush off to the dealer only to be told "you get that from time to time, come back and see us when it goes off permanently". However I would be keen to hear from others whether this does eventually descend into complete failure, and if so what is the fix? Is it just the LCD screen that fails or am I looking at an entire new dash unit, and if so what is the damage?? Warranty long gone so if I am potentially looking down the barrel at several thousand notes worth of new electronic gear it might strengthen the case (in my mind at least) to move the car along sooner rather than later. Cheers and thanks for reading!!
Have the Comfortline version of the MFD.
Twice in the past few months the MFD has "blacked out" ie nothing visible but there is still a faint red glow in the background suggesting it is getting power?
First time I noticed it not working having just driven out of the garage (ie car had not been parked in the hot sun). Nothing at all, stayed off despite turning ignition off and restarting a few times. Then, after being parked for a few hours (in the hot sun funnily enough) it was working normally and has done so since.
Today I watched it black out as I was driving - initially everything went but that horizontal line and then a few seconds later a bit of a flicker and all went blank. It remained off for another 15 minutes, and then having parked the car for a few minutes upon restarting all fine again.
Clearly an intermittent fault that seems to fix itself, like a few other little gremlins I have had with this car (the passenger door not unlocking, the cruise control not turning on occasionally), so I am not going to rush off to the dealer only to be told "you get that from time to time, come back and see us when it goes off permanently". However I would be keen to hear from others whether this does eventually descend into complete failure, and if so what is the fix? Is it just the LCD screen that fails or am I looking at an entire new dash unit, and if so what is the damage?? Warranty long gone so if I am potentially looking down the barrel at several thousand notes worth of new electronic gear it might strengthen the case (in my mind at least) to move the car along sooner rather than later. Cheers and thanks for reading!!
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