Greetings, I have a 93’318i with about 165,000m. I am not sure how many miles are on it because none of my gauges are working but they do jump from time to time. The local dealer diagnosed the problem as a bad cluster and could fix it for $800. I suggested I get a used one and the dealer didn’t think much of THAT idea.
I got a cluster off Ebay for $50, had an Import Car service place install it and it does the exact same thing as the cluster removed. This suggests to me that it is not the cluster unless the cluster off Ebay has the same problem. But the place that installed it did check out the system upstream from the cluster.
Has anyone experienced similar gauge failures?
What does it mean to “Re-code the instrument cluster?”
Thanks,
Wilhelm