I will look into that. I notice they painted the board surface white. Makes it hard to see the traces of copper. Its worth a shot.

If you still have issues, you may want to look at the two actuator mounts for the needle "motor". Mine looked bad.

Also I know what you mean by it looking cooked. Only the fuel gauge components has some ear-wax like substance at the solder points. As if heat was baking off any of the flux and such.

__________________
1991 560 SEL / 185k miles
1992 750il / 17k miles - project car