Last Monday on my way into work I looked down at the electronic dash on my car and noticed that the middle panel had gone completely blank!!  It was devoid of information.

When I arrived at work I phoned the place where I normally have it serviced.  They advised me that they didn’t have a diagnostic machine in the local garage and gave me a choice of the two garages in their dealership that could do that for me.  I booked it in to the nearest of the two although I was not happy as neither location was convenient to get my car to and it would have meant taking the day off work.

I then remembered that I had recently noticed an advert for a local dealership.  I found their number and phoned to see if they could help.  They were able to look at it next day if I could leave my car there all day which was not problem. It being local meant that there were lots of options for getting too and from work.  They also concurred with my assessment that it was an electronics failure and if that was the case it would probably be expensive!!

They ran the diagnostics over it and advised a new dash was required.  Expensive, but not quite as expensive as I expected. I left the car there over night as the part was not in stock (no surprise there), but it was delivered the next day.  They also identified a problem with one of my tyres… There is a nail in it which they said was not repairable.  I took that one away to be remedied elsewhere.

When I went to drive away after picking up my car I noticed a blue light on the dash board (the temperature gauge).  I didn’t remember seeing a blue light on the dash before only red and orange warning ones!  It left me wondering if the dashboard had been faulty from the day I bought the car…

…Then there was a week of computer problems at work!

And just top the week off my camera tripod broke whilst I was folding it up after taking photographs to accompany an upcoming post.  I think I can obtain spares for repairs, but I need to check out if they are available for my model.

On the plus side I had a nice day on Saturday visiting my Aunt to celebrate her 89th birthday