Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
might cost to fix this annoying problem?

Thanks...

....Mike

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

My '00 A4 is doing the samething but worse. I've turned off the display all
together, and am not even considering the how much it would cost to replace
the piece. Any advice would be helpfull.

Tim in Portland

"...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote in message
news:djqsog$4it$1@gargoyle.oit.duke.edu...
> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

My '00 A4 is doing the samething but worse. I've turned off the display all
together, and am not even considering the how much it would cost to replace
the piece. Any advice would be helpfull.

Tim in Portland

"...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote in message
news:djqsog$4it$1@gargoyle.oit.duke.edu...
> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

My '00 A4 is doing the samething but worse. I've turned off the display all
together, and am not even considering the how much it would cost to replace
the piece. Any advice would be helpfull.

Tim in Portland

"...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote in message
news:djqsog$4it$1@gargoyle.oit.duke.edu...
> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

My '00 A4 is doing the samething but worse. I've turned off the display all
together, and am not even considering the how much it would cost to replace
the piece. Any advice would be helpfull.

Tim in Portland

"...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote in message
news:djqsog$4it$1@gargoyle.oit.duke.edu...
> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:50:23 -0400, "...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote:

> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

I had a similar sitution that was temperature related. Under 50F some of
the odometer segments refused to work. When the interior of the car warmed
up, all was OK.

The dot-matrix displays also faded out occasionally. I had a new display
put in under warranty, and it's been Ok for a couple of years now.
--
Jay.
(remove dashes for legal email address)

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:50:23 -0400, "...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote:

> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

I had a similar sitution that was temperature related. Under 50F some of
the odometer segments refused to work. When the interior of the car warmed
up, all was OK.

The dot-matrix displays also faded out occasionally. I had a new display
put in under warranty, and it's been Ok for a couple of years now.
--
Jay.
(remove dashes for legal email address)

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:50:23 -0400, "...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote:

> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

I had a similar sitution that was temperature related. Under 50F some of
the odometer segments refused to work. When the interior of the car warmed
up, all was OK.

The dot-matrix displays also faded out occasionally. I had a new display
put in under warranty, and it's been Ok for a couple of years now.
--
Jay.
(remove dashes for legal email address)

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:50:23 -0400, "...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu> wrote:

> My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
> blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
> running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
> same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
> row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
> Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
> might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Mike

I had a similar sitution that was temperature related. Under 50F some of
the odometer segments refused to work. When the interior of the car warmed
up, all was OK.

The dot-matrix displays also faded out occasionally. I had a new display
put in under warranty, and it's been Ok for a couple of years now.
--
Jay.
(remove dashes for legal email address)

Re: Rows of Pixels going Dead on Dashboard Display
 

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:50:23 -0400, "...Mike" <michaelm@duke.edu>
wrote:

>My '99 A6 has, intermittently, rows of the dashboard display going
>blank. Most of the time it is fine - some days it is not. After
>running a while it seems to get better. The rows are not always the
>same. The most rows that have ever been out at one time is three. ( By
>row, I mean a line of pixels). Could this be temp/moisture related?
>Anything I can do? Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know what it
>might cost to fix this annoying problem?
>

Take this for what it's worth ... when the dealer was trying to sell
me an extended warranty on my 2001 A4, he mentioned the dashboard
display problem.

If we are talking about the same thing, he said it was about $1200 to
repiar it.