Its your liquid crystal display. This is a common problem these days and I would leave well enough alone until the problem becomes bigger. A liquid crystal display is usually made of multiple panes of glass with fluid suspended between them. They use an electrical signal to polarize the crystals and a polarizing filter to change this into a visual effect.
Since the displays are made of glass its always a challenge connecting a printed circuit to them most LCD's use a pressure type connection with a conductive rubber strip that takes the signal from the printed circuit board to the glass. When this conductive rubber slips or shrinks from age some funky things happen with the display. Most of the time putting pressure on the LCD panel will make the issues go away for a whille. The real solution is to go inside and fix the problem with the connection. In an instrument cluster this is not really possible since their is an outer polycarbonate cover over the entire cluster.
I used to have a very expensive Nokia 8890 phone that had similar problems like this. I paid over $600 for the phone and was taking it apart and using "shims" underneath the LCD so that I could see it when making calls. Needless to say I was not happy
04-28-2006, 07:23 PM
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