jurichar

Well...Awhile back i was fiddleing with something in my car and droped something hard on the glass readout of the climate control. At first it just had a little bleeding on the glass, but eventually it got out of control and the display would flicker and was completely unreadable! Well, it finally bugged me enough to look into fixing. I called up suncoast and they wanted charge me about $400-500 for a new unit.....that wasnt going to work. So i went with option B. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Audi-Porsch...1QQcmdZViewItem I took the plunge and tried to piece this thing together today. I wouldn't say that it was "easy" but it wasnt horribly hard either. The worst part by far was the modification of the stock internals to adopt this new piece. Anway here are some pics and a little description of what's going on. Unfortunatly i didn not take a pic of what this thing looked like when it was installed prior to fixing...sorry! Removal Removed - you can see the bleeding LCD juice Deconstruction this wasnt too hard. Just a few screws and pins. They give you sweet gloves with the kit...So while wearing sweet gloves its only right to make a sweet hand gesture. The shocker seemed appropriate. This is where it gets tricky. The LCD they send you in the kit is probably 1/8" - 1/4" too big for the stock metal "cage." So i basically trimmed the side pieces off the cage and smoothed them all over w/ some sandpaper. This is a pic halfway throught the process. These two pics are after the unit was re assembled. There are these little rubber zebra connectors that transfer the electricity from the board to the LCD. In the factory version they fit neatly inside the metal cage, but because i destroyed that they didnt fit quite so nice/neat. Basically, to make it work, i just held everything together i re-assembled. Then you need to take a screwdriver and push the zebra connector back towards the terminals on the board. It makes a really odd angle, but it worked out ok?!? I was worried when i was doing it? Re-assembled and ready for the upcoming major dissapointment! This last pic was another dicey area to overcome. Basically, because the new glass was bigger, it didnt exactly "fit" into the confines of the plastic internals. Therefore, i had to modify them slightly. What i ended up doing was shaving the side of the big circular "auto" button and a little bit of the plastic "tube" the the button fit into. I used a utility blade as my weapon of choice. And here is the final product. I think it came out pretty good, I was expecting the readout to be the same as i had before, but it was slightly different as you can tell by the pics. I like it though, better than the ugly bleeding version i had before?!? Lol and this version has "manuell" spelled correctly!!! Here is a pic of the old LCD before i pitched it....and my little PIA helper friend!