Beware the plastic symbols on the dashboard

[pettaw]

I was just finishing fixing my ambient air temperature gauge, hopefully, which was flicking to zero everytime I turned the fan down from 3 to 2. I changed the little capacitor, which hopefully will fix it.

Anyway to the point of my post. As I was closing it together, the plastic symbol insert thingy dropped out. Nothing new there, however, as I picked it up to put it back, I bent it slightly by mistake, and it snapped in two places.

OOPS! I've superglued it together again but it doesn't look right. So just a word of warning, treat it carefully.

BTW if anybody's got a dash display from a 1986 VDO unit I'd love to have it. Later ones will work but the green colour on the indicators is different.

[d3k4y0]

I can probably help you out there... I'll have a check tomorrow

[5lab]

the 86 car i had has the same green colour as later cars - i believe it was earlier cars that have the different colour

[foggyjames]

Well Andy's car is an 86 model, and certainly not green, so..

cheers

James