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This is usually fixable by removing the cluster and resoldering the connector pins. Over time, vibration and/or hooking/unhooking the harness to cluster causes the solder joints around the pins to crack creating a poor connection. If you look at the base of the pins there will be a little circle around the base in the solder. Simply use a soldering gun to heat the solder until it melts to re-establish good connections. You won't need to add any solder just touch the base with a soldering iron until it melts and then remove the soldering iron. Do all the pins while you are at it or you are at it or other problems may pop up later. I changed some burned out instrument bulbs as I have done in several of my other VW's and then the gauge cluster would intermittently stop working, then work again. On another VW i had a coolant level light that would intermittently come on and drove me crazy because i had changed all the sensors and the level was good. In both cases after resoldering the connector pins the problem went away. All the blogs said the cluster was bad. Worst case scenario is you mess up your cluster in the soldering operation and you still need a cluster, so try this fix first. Any used cluster is at the same age and probably also have the cracked pins! Sad to see in the blogs how many clusters have probably been unnecessarily changed out when the pin resoldering may have solved the problems and the headaches...
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