2002 v70 Replacing ‘Trip meter switch’ on DIM

[Derek123]

It’s been a while guys. You’ve helped me hugely before with my 960 and my last v70.
My father has owned his 2002/2003 v70 since new (72000 miles).
Recently the dash board has developed a fault…
It intermittently cuts out, goes completely dead or freezes. Last week I drove 50 miles to a breakers who said they had some secondhand ones. When I got there we tried 2 and they were both dead, so I put the old one back in and worked fine until the following day.
It is mainly intermittent and if it does freeze or blackout completely I can normally get it back on by pressing the ‘trip’ button…
It seems directly connected to the button.
My question to you is can I take the back off to check/replace the trip button or can I somehow get some contact cleaner in there?
If not can anyone recommend an auto electrician in England to get this fixed?

Thanks in anticipation,
Derek

BTW I had to scrap my lovely 2000 v70 with no problems because of the ULEZ laws in London.

[850 LPT]

Hi Derek,

It sounds like your dash needs a proper rebuild, the symptoms you are describing are typical. I don't know who does this kind of service in the UK, but there a companies over here that would do it.
One of them is this one:

https://europeanelectric.net/products

Apparently we have members who used them and they were satisfied. Shipping would be a bit of an issue, but if you can't find anyone...?

Good luck,

Dirk

P.S. Too bad about your 2000 V70, what a shame.

[npexcept]

If you want, I can take a look (electrical engineer here).
Maybe reflowing the solder joints will fix the problem.
I repaired my instrument cluster which also had problems (2003 XC90).
And germany aint that far from the UK

[Derek123]

Thanks npexcept I’ll give it a few days first and see what happens

[Derek123]

Hi Derek,

It sounds like your dash needs a proper rebuild, the symptoms you are describing are typical. I don't know who does this kind of service in the UK, but there a companies over here that would do it.
One of them is this one:

https://europeanelectric.net/products

Apparently we have members who used them and they were satisfied. Shipping would be a bit of an issue, but if you can't find anyone...?

Good luck,

Dirk

P.S. Too bad about your 2000 V70, what a shame.

Thanks Dirk. I’ll see if anyone can recommend one here in England first

[Antoine240bk]

I don't know if this would work for you with the brexit, but there is a compagnie in Germany ecu.de, they fixed a bad throttle on my V70 2000 , price were really reasonable. They do rebuild instrument cluster. https://ecu.eu

edit: https://ecu.eu/orderrequest-8.htm#UK-N ... and-Brexit Too bad that won't work with customs

[Antoine240bk]

Looks like there is few compagnies in the UK doing instrument cluster repairs.

https://www.essexrecons.com/?wpce_searc ... pe=product

[Derek123]

Looks like there is few compagnies in the UK doing instrument cluster repairs.

https://www.essexrecons.com/?wpce_searc ... pe=product

Thanks for that. I’ll call them tomorrow.

I was also hoping to hear from someone who has taken one apart and get their thoughts on the trip button.

[Derek123]

Looks like there is few compagnies in the UK doing instrument cluster repairs.

https://www.essexrecons.com/?wpce_searc ... pe=product

Thanks again Antoine240bk - I did use [url]https://www.essexrecons.com/? and it was repaired very quickly. I posted to them on Monday and received it back on Friday. I highly recommend Essex Recons and they give a lifetime guarantee on their fix.

[Antoine240bk]

Looks like there is few compagnies in the UK doing instrument cluster repairs.

https://www.essexrecons.com/?wpce_searc ... pe=product

Thanks again Antoine240bk - I did use [url]https://www.essexrecons.com/? and it was repaired very quickly. I posted to them on Monday and received it back on Friday. I highly recommend Essex Recons and they give a lifetime guarantee on their fix.

Awesome! Glad it worked quickly.