Hi guys and gals,
I have been looking through this site for a few months now doing some research before I purchased my car , a 2002 L322 Mk RR. When I bought it, it had a fault with the digital display on the dash, quite alot of the pixels where missing. I knew about the fault before I bought the car and new it was a common fault on this model. Unless I missed it, there is no info on this site for the repair process. So I thought I would give back to the site instead of taking away. I was quoted at my local 4x4 specialist £220 +vat for the repair to the dash and about £100 +vat for the labour.
I did some research and got a bloke called Ethan from CLUSTER REPAIRS UK 07934345959 to repair it for £180 inc vat plus £18 Postage, the difference though was that he replaced the parts, rather than repaired and thus gave a 3 year garantee rather than the usual 12 months. If you ring him upfront so that he is aware of it coming he will do it right away, if you get it to the post office before 12pm (and it weighs below 2kg) send it special delivery it will get there to him before 1pm the following day, he will then repair it and send it the next day and you will receive it again before 1pm the following day. Alternately he can send out a loan unit for an extra £20 but he still needs this back. Postage cost is £8 special del before 1pm or £10 if you want it delivered on a Saturday.
So I will begin, you need to remove the dash to do this you need to follow this procedure (ittook me about an 1 1/2 hours but could do it now well below an hour):-
Passenger side first, remove the plastic end cover off the dash, it just clips in, I used a flat blade screw driver at the bottom of the panel to pull it off. Once thats off, there is an 8mm bolt holding the cup holder in, remove the bolt then push the holder out from behind.
To get the dash top off, remove all the big torx bolts, flip out the center dash speaker grille and the 2 torx screws either side of it. remove the vents at each end of the dash, these are held in by 4 clips which need to be prised inwards, look into the vent and you'll see them(2 each side of the vent), once all the clips are prised inwards, push the vent out from behind if you can, I couldn't, so used a pair of water pump pliers with a cloth wrapped round the grips (don't be afraid but you really do have to pull). These type where used rather than normal pliers as the jaws will give you a better surface area to grip. Then you need to remove the housings that the vents were in, these are held in with torx screws (3 in total).Carefully take out the vent housings, once these are out, there is a torx screw either side of the dash, take these out then pull the dash top towards you and lift out, disconnecting the speaker first from underneith.
Then there are 2 more torx screws holding the display unit on, remove and disconnect the 3 wiring plugs and package up and send away.
Tools required:-
Flat blade screwdriver
8mm socket and rachet
T20 and T30 torx bits
You can get the torx bits for a couple of pounds from ebay, pictured is also a magnetic teloscopic pointer which is usfull if you drop any bits in the dash.
Above shows the point where you prise the side panel off.
Above shows the panel with the 4 clips.
This shows 2 torx screws to help remove vent housings also 8mm bolt for cup holder.
This shows cup holder with it's clips.
This shows the vent coming out, if you look you can see there is a pinch type arrangement on the housing and a bit of plastic on the vent which is why it is hard to pull out.
Shows water pump pliers and all important cloth.
This shows the last srew in the housing, remove this then housing can be pulled out.
This is the dash top screw which is covered by the vent housing.
This was taken through the windscreen and shows 2 torx screws behind the dash unit/console.
I really hope this helps, it really is not hard and has saved me a few hundred pounds and I've got a 3 year garantee, also while the dash is of, why not put a permenent live feed for you tom tom or speed detector etc. If you do you use Ethan at CLUSTER REPAIR, please let him know where you got the info and that Adam put you in touch.
Thanks....................Adam
I have been looking through this site for a few months now doing some research before I purchased my car , a 2002 L322 Mk RR. When I bought it, it had a fault with the digital display on the dash, quite alot of the pixels where missing. I knew about the fault before I bought the car and new it was a common fault on this model. Unless I missed it, there is no info on this site for the repair process. So I thought I would give back to the site instead of taking away. I was quoted at my local 4x4 specialist £220 +vat for the repair to the dash and about £100 +vat for the labour.
I did some research and got a bloke called Ethan from CLUSTER REPAIRS UK 07934345959 to repair it for £180 inc vat plus £18 Postage, the difference though was that he replaced the parts, rather than repaired and thus gave a 3 year garantee rather than the usual 12 months. If you ring him upfront so that he is aware of it coming he will do it right away, if you get it to the post office before 12pm (and it weighs below 2kg) send it special delivery it will get there to him before 1pm the following day, he will then repair it and send it the next day and you will receive it again before 1pm the following day. Alternately he can send out a loan unit for an extra £20 but he still needs this back. Postage cost is £8 special del before 1pm or £10 if you want it delivered on a Saturday.
So I will begin, you need to remove the dash to do this you need to follow this procedure (ittook me about an 1 1/2 hours but could do it now well below an hour):-
Passenger side first, remove the plastic end cover off the dash, it just clips in, I used a flat blade screw driver at the bottom of the panel to pull it off. Once thats off, there is an 8mm bolt holding the cup holder in, remove the bolt then push the holder out from behind.
To get the dash top off, remove all the big torx bolts, flip out the center dash speaker grille and the 2 torx screws either side of it. remove the vents at each end of the dash, these are held in by 4 clips which need to be prised inwards, look into the vent and you'll see them(2 each side of the vent), once all the clips are prised inwards, push the vent out from behind if you can, I couldn't, so used a pair of water pump pliers with a cloth wrapped round the grips (don't be afraid but you really do have to pull). These type where used rather than normal pliers as the jaws will give you a better surface area to grip. Then you need to remove the housings that the vents were in, these are held in with torx screws (3 in total).Carefully take out the vent housings, once these are out, there is a torx screw either side of the dash, take these out then pull the dash top towards you and lift out, disconnecting the speaker first from underneith.
Then there are 2 more torx screws holding the display unit on, remove and disconnect the 3 wiring plugs and package up and send away.
Tools required:-
Flat blade screwdriver
8mm socket and rachet
T20 and T30 torx bits
You can get the torx bits for a couple of pounds from ebay, pictured is also a magnetic teloscopic pointer which is usfull if you drop any bits in the dash.
Above shows the point where you prise the side panel off.
Above shows the panel with the 4 clips.
This shows 2 torx screws to help remove vent housings also 8mm bolt for cup holder.
This shows cup holder with it's clips.
This shows the vent coming out, if you look you can see there is a pinch type arrangement on the housing and a bit of plastic on the vent which is why it is hard to pull out.
Shows water pump pliers and all important cloth.
This shows the last srew in the housing, remove this then housing can be pulled out.
This is the dash top screw which is covered by the vent housing.
This was taken through the windscreen and shows 2 torx screws behind the dash unit/console.
I really hope this helps, it really is not hard and has saved me a few hundred pounds and I've got a 3 year garantee, also while the dash is of, why not put a permenent live feed for you tom tom or speed detector etc. If you do you use Ethan at CLUSTER REPAIR, please let him know where you got the info and that Adam put you in touch.
Thanks....................Adam
