Instrument Cluster digital lights not working!

[Alrahi]

Hi all,

All gauges in cluster work fine in my 05 4.8is (fuel, speedo, rpm, temp) but the lower part all digital lights don’t work including turn signal lights.

Story is funny but irritating too!

There is a dead moscito in my cluster for a long time. I decided to try and open the cluster to remove it but decided to not take the chance to ruin something more important and i didn’t open the cluster.

I connected the three wires back and turned the car back on but the digital lights stopped working 🤬🙂*↕️.

I checked instrument cluster fuses (1,43,45 if I remember correctly) and replaced 3 of them with 5 amps fuses. Still no luck.

I connected my BMW scan tool (foxwell) and found few error codes. I cleared them but still no luck.

Plan is to try this next:
I read something online that says if the new fuses burn again then I need to disconnect the battery then add the fuses with the battery disconnected and then connect the battery again.

Does it need programming or am I missing something? The only thing I did was disconnect the three cluster wires and connected them back 😢 and this is not my first time with bmw cluster did this in other cars.


Appreciate your input (will try to attach obd code later)