Renault Kangoo instrument problem

[Tim Downie]

My mother's Renault Kangoo (about 5 to 6 years old) has suffered some sort
of electrical failure and now the temperature gauge, the speedometer and the
petrol gauge have all stopped working.

The local main dealer has said that the only repair option it to replace the
whole instrument cluster at a cost of over �600 which seems more than a
little steep.

Anyone any suggestions as to what might have gone wrong and possible cheaper
fixes?

Tim

[Chris Whelan]

Give these guys a call?

http://tinyurl.com/2vgcn7q

Chris

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[Mrcheerful]

"Tim Downie" <timdow...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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ask someone like bba-reman, they do a collect and fix service.

[Tim Downie]

Cheers. Looks like that might be the way to go.

My mother now tells me that this has happened before in damp weather but it
recovered spontaneously. Does this info help with any likely diagnoses?

Tim

[Mrcheerful]

"Tim Downie" <timdow...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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No idea, I regard all French cars as off limits, if possible .

[JB]

"Mrcheerful" <nbk...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> No idea, I regard all French cars as off limits, if possible .

Sensible policies for a better Britain.....

JB

[Tim Downie]

Well, I went to have a look at it and after wasting 15 minutes looking in
the wrong places for the fuse box, I eventually found it and checked the
fuses which were okay. Of course I managed to kill the radio so finding the
radio code was another job to add to the list. ;-)

I then turned to disassembling the instrument console which turned out to be
really easy. I did the usual wiggling and unplugging/replugging of all
connectors but nothing came back to life so I removed the instrument pack
prior to sending it off.

Seeing as I had my torx screwdriver in my hand, I thought I'd have a peak
inside the console but there wasn't really anything that I could easily get
at without pulling the needles off the dials which I didn't want to do
without being sure if that was the way forward. I put the back cover back
on and tried it one last time reconnected to all the wires, and it worked!

I've no idea what made the difference or how long it will go on working but
for the moment Arnold Clarke isn't getting a bucket load of my mother's
money whcih makes me happy. ;-)

I've suggested that it might not be a bad time to think about changing her
car for something more reliable & less costly to repair.

Tim

[Chris Dugan]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:26:21 +0000, Tim Downie wrote:

> Cheers. Looks like that might be the way to go.
>
> My mother now tells me that this has happened before in damp weather but
> it recovered spontaneously. Does this info help with any likely
> diagnoses?
>

A few years back a friend had a Kangoo that started doing funny things...
it turned out to be the windscreen leaking water into the passenger
footwell area and down behind the dash onto and into the body control
computer. It might be worth your while checking that it isn't flooded,
the watermark was easily visible as was the water :)

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Chris

[Chris Whelan]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:07:05 +0000, Tim Downie wrote:

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> I've suggested that it might not be a bad time to think about changing
> her car for something more reliable & less costly to repair.

Nothing French then?

;-)

[boscam...@gmail.com]

Thanks a lot for the infos,
I took mine apart, and I couldn't see anything obvious burned or interupted inside of them,and they were not working after conected them back
So I ended up buying new cluster instruments from a junkyard for about 25 EUR