On the way home from Friday’s noggin the speedo, rev counter, fuel, temp gauges all cut out. No power so dark and needles all at the zero point.The LED screen was still working. Engine working fine and no warning lights came on. After a couple of miles the gauges came back ok but soon failed again. No other symptoms from the engine/ no warning lights/ engine running smoothly.
Fuses checked ok. Disconnected the battery to try a reboot. Still no gauges. Car starts as normal and sounds ok running.
Looks like a lost connection, module failure, behind the dash somewhere.
Car has done 4k+ miles since new a few weeks ago. The only glitch was the hood tenax stud fastener just behind the door snapped inside on the screw thread part.( mrs sospan replaced it unknown to me when I was raising the hood rear to put stuff onto the shelf) so replaced with a different one with two screw fixing holes. The originals are plated brass and seem to have a weakness for snapping and need drilling out. I think the newer version with stainless screws might be better, albeit two holes drilled to fit. I have done the broken side only so far to see how it goes before doing the other one.The procedure for the hood raising/ lowering now includes a verbal check on tenax release!
It’s going in to Williams for a handbrake check in just over a week so the gauges is another job for them!
