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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 07:11 AM
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STFA... What is needed to add a trip computer to a B5? (99.5 1.8TQM with non-fancy cluster)
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 07:15 AM
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you mean switch clusters? why do that when they fail miserably? :-)
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 07:22 AM
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I know of the failure problems.. But is that all there is to it?
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 07:22 AM
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Default cause they don't all fail miserably. Mine is almost 10 years old, and not a damn thing wrong with it

in fact my radio screen is going bad before the trip computer is.
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 07:32 AM
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 07:35 AM
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search, there is a writeup from a german site.
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 11:01 AM
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You've gotta be kidding me - mine started to go pretty much the day the warranty expired
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 12:42 PM
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not a single dead pixel.
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