It is not a voltage stabilizer! Please help

Hi

Recently my temp and fuel gauges stopped working, and after reading the vwgolfmk1 forums I found the following post by dubboy

  " If both temp and fuel gauge don?t work its often a sign of a broken voltage stabilizer on the back constant 10v to them.  Check the supply from it (3 pronged transistor held down with a screw) with new ones can be bought from GSF or VW." dubbboy

I took my mk1 to the auto electrician to check the voltage stabilizer, but fortunately it was still fine, unfortunately the three lines on a plastic sheet that goes to the voltage stabilizer, one of these lines were broken. Please help me how do I go about fixing this or do I have to buy that new plastic sheet, or do i go to a professional auto electrician?

Actually the auto electrician tried to fix the broken line using a soldering wire, but it didn?t work.

Cheers
Ikanyeng

Ps: I will write a detailed story and questions about my mk1 soon on the forum. I'm still learning about this car, I bought it a month ago. I am in South Africa.

Hi Ikanyeng and welcome!!

Ref the fualt you have I thought (??) that you could solder broken lines on the blue film but maybe not? Otherwise, could be another fault.

How easy/hard would it be for you to get a replacement set of clocks out there?

Cheers
Andy

Should be able to buy some liquid metal stuff that you paint on in your local motor factors.

It's the stuff you use for repairing rear window demisters.

Peter.