#1: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Deano69, Location: London & KentPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:25 pm ---- Hi all
Got a strange problem here...
Couple of days ago I locked the car up for the night and noticed the clock/stereo display still had an orange glow....
Its a 3 bulb unit and works perfectly, clock is fine, date is fine, stereo information is fine...
when you remove the keys the letters all go out , but the faint orange glow remains...
and remains...
and remains... until the battery goes nearly flat
I removed the trim around it and all 3 bulbs are blazing away !!!
Nothing with the car has been changed or messed about with recently
Would be grateful for any help or info
#2: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:51 am ---- Known BSI software bug that is still in the latest software version & unlikely to ever get fixed now.
Normally cycling the ignition key on then off again will turn off the MFD orange backlight.
It will only happen rarely, call in a multiplexed 206 quirk
#3: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Deano69, Location: London & KentPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:52 pm ---- would do you mean `cycling` the ignition key ???
I don't have a bicycle
#4: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:57 am ---- It means turning ignition on and off and on and off and so on, until MFD finally swithces off
(I wonder if I didn't get caught by double sarcasm here )
#5: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Deano69, Location: London & KentPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:33 pm ---- thanks for clearing that up....
when you say ignition , you mean turn the key till the ignition lights come on and then all the way off and back on again.... etc , etc...
ignition lights only, you don't mean start the engine at all.... do ya ?
#6: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:02 pm ---- Don't start the engine, just all dash lights on lights off, just like karate kid
#7: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Deano69, Location: London & KentPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:20 pm ---- hmmm... ok
roughly how many times, 20 ???
#8: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:24 pm ---- Until MFD orange light switches off
#9: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Deano69, Location: London & KentPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:37 pm ---- Just thought of something....
I disconnected one of the front fog lights a few days before I noticed this problem.
I haven't reconnected it yet... would that cause the problem ?
surely not
#10: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: mtempsch, Location: Gothenburg, SwedenPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:55 am ----
Deano69 wrote:
Just thought of something....
I disconnected one of the front fog lights a few days before I noticed this problem.
I haven't reconnected it yet... would that cause the problem ?
surely not
Unless you've got loose, bare, wires tucked somewhere they shouldn't be, I don't see how it could.
The fog light are powered through a relay (see diagram 3 here), unplugging the bulb (just like a broken bulb) makes no difference to the car's 'brains' as it is only connected to the relay's coil while bulb and battery go over the contacts.
#11: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Deano69, Location: London & KentPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:52 am ---- No, I just disconnected the plug from the back of the foglight.
then removed the complete foglight .
no bare wires or nothing like that...
#12: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: mtempsch, Location: Gothenburg, SwedenPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:19 pm ---- Shouldn't be related then.
As a general caution you could fold the wiring back and tuck the connector in somewhere less exposed than dangling behind the opening.
#13: Re: Clock display unit , illuminated ALL the time Author: Deano69, Location: London & KentPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:26 pm ---- Just a final update here...
A week later, after recharging the battery, the display did go off...
and stayed off , had no display at all....
Anyway, I replaced the unit with a secondhand one and all is working fine now
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