Thanks alot. I've followed your instructions and it worked! Many thanks.

nice one Brian !

I cant wait fer mine to bust,

i'm feelin all left out

that can be arranged!
and at noextra cost

The Mad Hat Man said:

that can be arranged!
and at noextra cost

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Brian A said:

Thanks alot. I've followed your instructions and it worked! Many thanks.

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Congratulations. Mine still working very well since fixed the same way. (Works even better than when new).

Just a small follow-up to encourage those who still suffer with an 'invalid' display but haven't had the nerve/courage to fix it as described. Mine still working very well (as mentioned even better than new). So go ahead and do it.

Thanks for the tip, just did mine and it works a treat

Guys!

Had the same problem with my clock and decided to be brave tonight and pull the thing apart.

I took it out the dash and split all the bits apart then using PCB cleaner from Maplin and a cotton bud carefully cleaned under the ribbon cable where it contacts the circuit board and display

Then after reading about all the members who had used insulating tape / masking tape I looked around for an easier way to raise the level of the black rubber banding which contacts the ribbon cable to the boards when its put together.

I removed the rubber banding and where it sits in the channels cut lengths of garden strimmer cord and tacked them into place using a couple of drops of suoerglue. There are two channels - a long one under the display and a short one for the circuit board.

Then i replaced the banding and again tacked this to the strimmer cord using super glue.

Everything then clipped back together and time to test - guess what? All the characters now work perfectly!

PS If you have the original radio unit then pressing preset key 3 and powering on the unit goes into some sort of test thing - hold the key whilst the display says land rover then it will show you every cell on the display - USEFUL? maybe not!!

Next is a bit more challenging - time to change the clutch........

quality bit of info there got mine working too just need a bulb for it now thanks

I picked up some 12V clear minature bulbs from Homebase after Christmas - they're actually 'push in' replacements for 'fairy lights' but once removed from their plastic carrier they're just standard lamps with leads.
I just re-used the LR plastic twisty carrier thingy and job done!

Best of all the pack of bulbs (10 in the pack) was 19p - cheapest replacement part on the car I think!

excellent fix Darrnw

followed the instructions, but made plastic templates instead of the masking tape, works a dream. I even had some blue sheet plastic for the colour filter, once i tested it working, replaced the green sheet with the blue. (only cus i'm sad and like it blue!!)

well please with this forum, wish i found it years ago when had my disco and series:doh:

I changed the old radio display / clock with the new version that just shows the time, but the radio is not working anymore. Any ideas how I can make my the radio work again ?