Can you help ?

[LadyJ11344]

Hi, I’m a newbie and I’m after some advice please.
I’ve just bought a Renault Clio Mk3 2010 and I have a problem with the trip computer sporadically going dim then brightening again ( the rest of the dash display is fine).
I’ve google searched and although this seems a common occurrence there has not been a definitive solution.
Can anyone help ?

 

[Darren S]

Welcome aboard!

Have you any history of when the battery might have been replaced? On my 182, the main display was fine, but I lost half of the centre console lettering through a tired battery.

Got a new one, swapped it over and all was good and bright again.

For the price that they are and the fact that winter is approaching - I'd try that first, assuming there's no receipt for a new battery in April or something.

 

[LadyJ11344]

Thanks for your reply.
The battery is fully charged and all the other lights are working fine, nice and bright.
It’s just the trip computer.

 

[White16valver]

Perhaps it's a loose connection behind / within the dashboard, but it's a PITA to get the dials binnacle out to check that sort of thing.

TBH, if it's not causing any actual issues with running day-to-day, I'd put it down to 'character'... lol

 

[Darren S]

Perhaps it's a loose connection behind / within the dashboard, but it's a PITA to get the dials binnacle out to check that sort of thing.

TBH, if it's not causing any actual issues with running day-to-day, I'd put it down to 'character'... lol

That was the point that I'd got to. I even purchased new bulbs to go behind the the dash, but seeing just how much of a task it was to remove the dash in the first place - I just put up with it.

Several months later, the battery died. Put a new one in and ta-da! Fully working centre console again. I was SO glad that I didn't go to those lengths of removing the dash for something so simple.

 

[R-Sport.]

Its a sealed unit - will be a dry solder
I had it on a 200 we took the dash top off & gave the top of the binnacle a tap ( or a more generous whack ) & it was fine...

 

[Martin_172]

As above 20 seconds with the soldering iron sorts it