Ok, so I traded in my 2001 e39 m5 to a local dealer for a e63 M6. I wanted to sell the car privately but once I saw the M6 I could not wait for someone to offer me a good price on a car.
My car had 75 thousand something miles, but I didn't know the exact miles because of the dreaded pixel cluster issue. The manager that looked over the car noticed it as well and when he gave me the final price on what he would offer as a trade-in, let me just say I was not very happy. The manager told me that it would cost a 1000 dollars to get the pixel repaired. So then, trying to get the most money out of my car, I basically said if I could fix the cluster, would he give me a thousand more on the car? And he said "yes"
For a second it occured to me that possibly I could fix it, I've seen DIY's on pixel repair.... but after looking at the DIY posts, I knew this was way out of my league. So I started looking on Craigslist and I happend to find a guy that says he can fix them for 200 bucks. I had nothing to lose(He has a hompage, so I went there as well to read more about him) so I called him up. He was very knowledgeable and we gave the car to him yesterday and it came back today(He says he also does one day services) with pixel repaired flawlessly. It was weird looking at the cluster with no issues, I finally know exactly how many miles I have in my car haha
If any members live near atlanta, I would definitely recommend him to fix your cluster.
I upload some pics to show you before and after. The color on the completed picutre is off because its a camera phone. The color of the pixels are the same.
My car had 75 thousand something miles, but I didn't know the exact miles because of the dreaded pixel cluster issue. The manager that looked over the car noticed it as well and when he gave me the final price on what he would offer as a trade-in, let me just say I was not very happy. The manager told me that it would cost a 1000 dollars to get the pixel repaired. So then, trying to get the most money out of my car, I basically said if I could fix the cluster, would he give me a thousand more on the car? And he said "yes"
For a second it occured to me that possibly I could fix it, I've seen DIY's on pixel repair.... but after looking at the DIY posts, I knew this was way out of my league. So I started looking on Craigslist and I happend to find a guy that says he can fix them for 200 bucks. I had nothing to lose(He has a hompage, so I went there as well to read more about him) so I called him up. He was very knowledgeable and we gave the car to him yesterday and it came back today(He says he also does one day services) with pixel repaired flawlessly. It was weird looking at the cluster with no issues, I finally know exactly how many miles I have in my car haha
If any members live near atlanta, I would definitely recommend him to fix your cluster.
I upload some pics to show you before and after. The color on the completed picutre is off because its a camera phone. The color of the pixels are the same.