Installed chrome gauge rings and now ...
 

so i went ahead and installed the chrome gauge rings on my 04 X5 last night, but this afternoon on my way home from work, i suddenly noticed some dead pixels where it shows the time, and some on odometer.

do you think its caused by my installation?

does the goodwill program to replace instrument cluster with dead pixels still in effect?

im out of warranty now since i have 50,088 miles on it, bummer...

update...

when i hop in my X this morning the first thing i looked at is the cluster, and guess what, the dead pixels are gone, they are perfect again... so i
dont know what happened last night.... but yeah, maybe i have to wait
till its dark again... anyway, im happy for now and hope no pixel gives up
on me... :nanana:

50,088? Man would that stink if it needs to be a warranty repair!!!

Jay,
From my experience once you unplug and re-plug the wiring on the back of the cluster, it somewhat gets distorted for a brief period and evrything normalizes after a short period of time. I hope your pixels will be okay. Post som pics. (sorry my PM box was full--but all cleared now)

yup, i hope thats the case with mine, because this morning, everything was okay... hope it stays that way... thanks for all the help george...

:iagree: , i have WDirect and i still need to drive it 1K miles and wait till 10/10/07 till i get covered by my warranty....

i have some that come and go. weird.

well, i drove my car today and i think they decided to stay dead... is the goodwill thing still existing?