Can anyone help me why my odometer on my ford fiesta MK7 keeps flickering and now it’s a dark screen. 
 

also I had my car in getting repairs done and the garage had broken my driver side compartment and I’ve purchased a replacement and how to remove it and put it on. 
 

Any tips would be grateful. 

Hi Catherine,

It's fairly common for the displays to fail as they age  - see this earlier thread for instance:

https://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/topic/105656-fiesta-digital-display-gone-blank/

Quite a few firms around offering cluster repairs, just Google or search Ebay for something like "Ford Fiesta Mk 7 instrument cluster repair".

Not quite sure what compartment you mean - little cubby for coins etc? (a pic would clarify) - but would have expected if the garage broke it they should have fixed it.

6 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

It's fairly common

Are you posting in the Girl GUIDES section again Roger ? 🤣

You'd think the FOC admin would get this fixed 😉

1 hour ago, unofix said:

You'd think the FOC admin would get this fixed

Lol, I didn't notice tbh. It's understandable though that new members are looking for a Guide to solving their problem, I guess. 

It would help if it was blocked to replies (as it previously was) then at least twits like me wouldn't be able to post there!😀

Could the guides sections be blocked to everyone? Then if someone actually has a guide that they want to post they could get a moderator to post it for them, instructions on how to contact the forum gods could be included at the top of the guides sections.

29 minutes ago, pcaouolte said:

Could the guides sections be blocked to everyone? Then if someone actually has a guide that they want to post they could get a moderator to post it for them, instructions on how to contact the forum gods could be included at the top of the guides sections.

That is in fact what we used to have until the site was "improved" with a software update.

There used to be a forum called 'Guides to be moved'. You used to post your Guide to there, and every so often the moderators would check to see if what was posted was in fact a guide. If it met the requirements then the moderators moved the post to the Guides section and we all lived happy ever after 😀

51 minutes ago, unofix said:

That is in fact what we used to have until the site was "improved" with a software update.

Current situation leaves us with a quandary, assuming we spot that it's the Guide forum. Do we just respond to the OP as normal and help if we can, or ask them to repost in the correct forum, which they might not understand and find off-putting, and can still lead to responses split over 2 threads.

 

1 minute ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Do we just respond to the OP as normal and help if we can, or ask them to repost in the correct forum, which they might not understand and find off-putting

It seems that most of the FOC admin have gone AWAL and don't appear to be as active on the forum as they used to be.

My own view would be (if spotted) to advise them to repost the question in the correct forum, and provide a link to that.

When I see that it is a poster that has been a member for some time and they have made a number of posts before, then I tend to just ask them to repost in the "???????" forum since they have been able to do it previously.

 

Personally I just answer them.  Doesn't actually make any difference to anyone which section it's in.*  At least the guides section still refers to the model type, unlike the general section.

There are still too many categories on here anyway.  Not so bad for us long term members, but it is confusing when joining as a new member.

No one makes guides any more either.  That's what YouTube is for.  Much easier to understand something from a 2 minute video than through multiple still photos with massive chunks of text in between.

 

*I fully understand some people like order and for things to be in the right places.  I do myself!  But...in cases like this, it really doesn't matter.  Same as the shoddy parking in the car park...as long as each car is within one space, it doesn't actually matter, despite the fact I find it a near constant source of visual irritation!

44 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Personally I just answer them. 

I'm tending to do that, admittedly usually because I've initially failed to spot it's in Guides.😀 You can't win anyway - I responded to one recently and explained what the Guides section was meant for, and where to post correctly next time, but the OP just reposted anyway and we still ended up with 2 sets of responses.

I've noticed on other forums where I lurk that most people just post in the main section for the model anyway, notwithstanding Guides sections or whatever.

For me, the optimum guide would be text, photos and a link to a vid!

51 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Same as the shoddy parking in the car park...as long as each car is within one space, it doesn't actually matter, despite the fact I find it a near constant source of visual irritation!

The one that bugs me is incorrect docking of supermarket trolleys. It's not so much that they mix large and small trolleys (aesthetically displeasing though that is) but that they don't push them over the "lip" which is intended to stop them rolling away and into someone's car - particularly when it's ours!😡