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Stagea - Intermittent Dash Problems

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Got a little niggling issue.

car is a 99 RSfourS, 100,000kms.

If i have the lights on (and thus the dash illumination lights are on) after about an hour of driving, the speedo and tacho start to read higher and higher than normal. and then a few minutes later, they completely die and the digital odometer goes out. Fuel gauge stays on, and backlighting stays on - but everything else zeros out.

i have spoken to the previous owner who confirms this happened to him at night time also, so i am 100% positive it has something to do with the dash illumination lights being on, and given that it seems to always happen on or around an hour after i switch the lights on, i can only assume it is heat related??

i am attempting to remedy this by replacing all the globes with LEDs from 666DAN, but it's more of a bandaid solution than fixing the problem.

does anyone have any insight?

cheers mat

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hey mate i had a problem with my rsfours fuel gauge wasted alot of money trying to fix it.it ended up being the cluster itself so i just brought one off ebay

fuel is the only thing that DOES work even when all the others go out!

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