Renault Laguna II speedo reverted to km ?

Leave it alone?

Sticker on the middle, with

Take the battery out, leave out for an hour, put it back. Unlikley, but not impossible to fix it.

It's the mileometer, it's not a big deal.

Seems a bit unnecessary. Why not just disconnect it. :-) Mike.

anyone any ideas or quick fixes they might suggest ?

cheers

crabby

move to France ;o)

Yup....

For extra surety, put it back in reversed.

Does anyone have ANY sensible things to say or is this board just a piss take ?

Catch that dummy!

Taking the battery out, leaving it for an hour, and putting it back in has a non-zero chance of fixing it. I'd say that it's a very small chance. But, it's free to try.

Unfortunately, without detailed circuit diagrams of the dash, which are usually not available, not to mention firmware dumps of all the computing parts, it's almost impossible to attempt to fix it.

It's not a "board", it's Usenet. Contributors can be helpful, unhelpful, polite, rude, insane or indeed piss-takers. Oddly enough, it mirrors what I have found folks to be in real life.

Getting cross with posters, although sometimes tempting, won't help you resolve your problem I'm afraid.

I would guess that if the answer to your problem was something that could be resolved without an expensive trip to the dealer, someone would have let you know by now. Why not try some other dealers for their opinions? It seems the consensus here is that Renault dealers are often the worst of a bad bunch.

Please post back and let us know how you get on.

Chris

Lighten up. This is usenet. Mike.

Don't think anyone knows but Renault - too specialist. Try here instead

I got my Renault back from a rather wonderful little specialist this morning.

His words were "Renaults aren't bad cars, they just occasionally have mad ideas of grandure - that's when they get expensive"

N/S outer CV needed replacing, as mine's a 2.5 "Phase 2" Safrane that means replacing the bloody driveshaft.

Propshaft specialist quoted £95+vat to recondition it, but it'll take a week Motor factors ranged from £110+vat to £155+vat, all quoting a week to recon. Renault supplied a recon one from stock for £160inc vat, or new for £330+vat

Ended up going for the recon from Renault, but the Renault specialist only charged £25 to fit it, which was nice.

TBH, I've found my local Renault parts department to be brilliant - although I've needed to go there twice more than I'd have liked to

Have a look here

:-)

Chris

I have heard of Golf's getting this, and the only cure was a complete instrument cluster and re-program of the immobiliser as apparently it is a one piece unit in the cluster.

Very expensive as well.

PDH

Crabby ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Clue : If anybody knew an answer, they'd give it.