Flickering screen warning

[Terryr]

Hi. For those of you putting up with the flickering screen my advice would be to fix it sooner than later. I ran mine for about 2 years as it usually came good after a while. Then the other week I couldn't bring it back to life so resigned myself to removing it and sorting the well advertised cable problem. A couple of days before I did the radio/Cd also died. Only the sound of the CD trying to eject every 10 seconds or so (also mentioned on another post). Removed both units and found two broken wires in the screen cable as expected. Dismantled radio but could not see any obvious faults. Soldered cable & re-fitted. Nothing changed. Both units are now with a specialist repair company. Apparently the main board in the radio had blown along with a major component in the screen. Repair cost to include a new cable the wrong side of £1000. My suspicion is the broken cable ends together with the surrounding braid didn't get on very well. To make matters worse the mileage indicator has mysteriously increased from 50000 to over 86000 while the units have been out. I'm hoping the actual mileage will be restored once the repaired units are installed but I'm not confidant. (or maybe I've pressed some buttons I shouldn't).

 

[Verminator]

Yes mate I think that you have set up meter to read kilometres and not miles and that's why there's such a big difference......
Hope you get sorted out ASAP
Drive safe and stay lucky
Les n Co

 

[2retro]

At a grand for repair of the ancient stock system why not just take the opportunity to install a touchscreen Android head unit with sat-nav, etc. instead? Would have been a lot cheaper and would be a full infotainment system...

 

[Terryr]

Yes mate I think that you have set up meter to read kilometres and not miles and that's why there's such a big difference......
Hope you get sorted out ASAP
Drive safe and stay lucky
Les n Co

Ah. You are of course correct. Cheered me up a little. Thanks

 

[Terryr]

At a grand for repair of the ancient stock system why not just take the opportunity to install a touchscreen Android head unit with sat-nav, etc. instead? Would have been a lot cheaper and would be a full infotainment system...

I confess I didn't know that was an option although I've always been happy with the existing system (apart from the satnav postcode thing) but in hindsight I should have posted the problem earlier........

 

[indoldn]

I confess I didn't know that was an option although I've always been happy with the existing system (apart from the satnav postcode thing) but in hindsight I should have posted the problem earlier........

Not sure if anyone has managed to install after market unit successfully (parking sensor, clock adjustment etc working ok) in model with Sat Nav. Most of the after market I've seen are replacing units with non built in Sat Nav.

If you have an RT6 you can upgrade it to take 7 digits UK post code. Search for RT6 upgrade by Tia North.

 

[Pedro]

50.000 Mls = 92.000 Klms ? The mileage is stored in a chip in the dash once it logs the data you may need to get a laptop on it to reinstall to 50.000