Instrument Cluster Blank

[Thewrench86]

👌 love a happy ending!

[rgerwal]

Unfortunately I now have a similar problem and don’t want to start pulling the dash apart myself. Mine is a 640D F06 2015. When to work and all was good. Parked the car for the day. Returned in the evening and the display is blank apart from a couple of vertical lines.

[pcgold]

2015 650i

Last year my dash went blank. I had gone away for a couple of weeks, when I got back the battery was low. I charged that up but the cluster wasn't working properly. Only a few idiot lights were on. THen next time I turned the car on, nada. The Heads up display wasn't working.

I live in Canada. Took the car to my indy. Dash faulty, no good, not repairable, only replaceable. Quoted me $4600Cdn plus tax and install, so around $5,500 in total. Since it was an indy, and the part was electronic, he could not offer me a warranty. Further, if the part came in and was installed but didn't fix it, they would not give me a refund.

Thanx, but no thanx. Went to the local dealer.

Exact same diagnosis but I was ready for the sticker shock so simply said to please go ahead and order it. Also, and a bonus, two year warranty, further if it didn't fix the problem I wasn't on the hook.

Now, I could have yelled at the poor guy on the phone giving me the bad news (ie $5500) but, as I said, I was ready for that so not upset or anything.

Was told two weeks but got a call after only one week and it was all ready.

When I went in the same guy I had dealt with was grinning from ear to ear. He had called BMW Canada who agreed to eat most of the cost. Maybe he did that cuz I wasn't mad at him on the phone. Goodwill I think (and maybe they know it's a common issue). So, the total cost was only $1,700 Cdn. Still a lot, but almost $3800 less.

Now, however, I wish I'd seen this solution. Next time (God forbid), I will simply replace the boards.

[Holt2498]

Just a quick update, dash has been perfect since my original post, so all is good.

I have helped another forum member who purchased the same LED PANEL from the eBay link I posted, all fitted and working fine.

WORD OF ADVICE - the two outer dials, fuel and oil temp, once positioned when refitting the PCB, gently push from the front of the panel where the displays show on each of the outer dials, you will hear a mild click and this tells you that the outer dials are correctly seated and you should not have the issues I faced.

Hope this helps.

[HBAH1747]

I have tha same problem with my 6wb ( black screen ) after reading your procedure i orderd the LCD and i fix it and it works .
What i did :
1. Remove battery ( negative only ) importent dont close the trunk while the battery off.
2. Remove instrument cluster (YouTube) and open easly.l ( i change the LCD make sure to press gently the 2 small gauges from the front)
3. return battery back.

Thank you very much Holt2498 good job.

[rkl]

Thanks for the info. Just had the same issue pop up on my '14 F11. would most agree that the part number would be the same.
Prefer to open her up and repair in one hit.

[Kolianovskyi]

Got the same on the fourth day after purchase. Disappeared by itself after 15 min. Drove as is))). Never seen again after.

[blackbmw2018]

Thanks for sharing, the eBay link is dead. Please advise where to purchase the module.

Thanks

[Kamate]

Your can look up the part number or try this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/18439383125...AAAOSwW8xfLhBL

[blackbmw2018]

Originally Posted by Kamate

Your can look up the part number or try this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/18439383125...AAAOSwW8xfLhBL

Thank you!!

[pcgold]

Same thing happened to me a few months after I bought my 2015 650ix GC. Indy wanted more than $5000Cdn to fix it. And no guarantees it would work. Dealership wanted same. But in the end BMW Canada must have recognized it's an issue because they paid a lot of it. Went ahead and had it done. Final bill was about $1700Cdn IIRC. Still a heck of a lot.

So, I bought one of the above off ebay just in case this ever happens again. It's on a shelf cuz I just know it will happen. But at $200, it's a lot of piece of mind.

[Kolianovskyi]

Originally Posted by pcgold

Same thing happened to me a few months after I bought my 2015 650ix GC. Indy wanted more than $5000Cdn to fix it. And no guarantees it would work. Dealership wanted same. But in the end BMW Canada must have recognized it's an issue because they paid a lot of it. Went ahead and had it done. Final bill was about $1700Cdn IIRC. Still a heck of a lot.

So, I bought one of the above off ebay just in case this ever happens again. It's on a shelf cuz I just know it will happen. But at $200, it's a lot of piece of mind.

Is there a bulletin or so for this issue?

[pcgold]

Originally Posted by Kolianovskyi

Is there a bulletin or so for this issue?

Not that I am aware of.

[F.saqer]

Hi, I have the same issue with my 2016 BMW F10, and I have read your post which is really great job. I have order the display, but I would like to ask if also this works for F10 528i 2016? it has exactly the same instruments cluster you have shown in this post.
thank you,

[Kolianovskyi]

Originally Posted by Kolianovskyi

Got the same on the fourth day after purchase. Disappeared by itself after 15 min. Drove as is))). Never seen again after.

And had again same issue after a year. Turn off the car. After 20 min it came back alive.

[FlyinLowSD]

Originally Posted by Holt2498

BMW BLANK PANEL 6WB FAULT - solved.
[…]

So the message is, if you have the BLANK SCREEN and if updates don’t work, it’s much more serious and likely to be (most definitely) the BOSCH LED DISPLAY which has failed. A few hundred (NOT THOUSANDS AS most and BMW WANTED) we are up and running again, everything works perfect.

Please see attached a picture of the actual part required, the part number is the BOSCH number starting with 89.

Hope this helps someone.

Kind regards Jeremy.

BRAVO!

[cello11]

I have the instrument cluster 6WA installed in my 640i . Now during the night time the orange background illumination starts flickering and disappears and reappears both on speedometer and rpm indicator. Any way of repairing it? I tried many things but no success.

My current idea is to replace it by the 6WB for approx 1000 EUR. Any opinions?

[Rob BMW 6]

Holt2498. How did you align the gas and temp gauges and them to work? I've tried twice now and the gauges are working. I'm fairly sure the are aligned. Was some else you did to get them to work?

[Daveashes]

Holt2498 where are you located pal and would you be up for a LCD panel swap on my FO2 , I would offcourse make it worth your while pal , I'm located Newcastle upon Tyne

[chiragdaswani97]

Greetings,
I was able to swap out the old lcd panel for the new one in 6wb cluster but the light during the day is very low. I tried correcting it by changing DIM_DTN to 0x7F but had no luck. Kindly help