Driver instrument cluster gone blank!

[Animaserati]

Hi guys, in a bit of a pickle here, so would appreciate any help. I was away for about 2.5 weeks in the beginning of February with my car parked away safely, albeit in the cold, in my building’s underground car park. Returned last week and, of course, the battery was dead as it wasn’t attached to a trickle charger (no electric points in my building’s underground parking!). Managed to use my DBPOWER 600A 18000mAh portable jump starter and got the car started. Warmed it up and drove it a few miles into town. Parked up, grabbed dinner, and drove back home. This was last Wednesday.

Fast forward to today, and I started the car again after exactly 8 days. Dead battery again, so jump started it one more time. However, upon the car coming to life and even once warmed up, the driver’s instrument cluster remained totally blank. No backlit activity for the speedo and tacho, and none of the info was being displayed on the smaller, central screen re: mileage, time, trip info, gear, etc. The only lights that were working were all the diagnostics lights (seatbelt sign, lights on, check engine etc).

I’ve never had this happen before. Everything else seems to be working fine (all other internal and external lights and backlights as well as electrics). I let the car idle for about 20 minutes, but haven’t driven it. Does anyone know what the issue could be and if there’s a solution for this as well?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[White tiger]

Maybe first check would be fuses.

 

[CatmanV2]

Maybe first check would be fuses.

Then a new battery

C

 

[Hawk13]

Agree with both of the above. A battery should not die in a few weeks, let alone 8 days.

 

[zagatoes30]

Battery first point of call, these cars require a decent feed - fingers crossed thats all it is

 

[Animaserati]

Thanks for the quick replies, guys. Lo and behold, in true Maserati fashion, I tried the car again last night and everything was back to normal! Will try and run/drive the car a bit more often to prevent the battery running dry. Glad the issue was nothing more severe. Thanks again!

 

[Sam McGoo]

If your battery is bad enough that it doesn't last more than week, then I suspect your gonna start getting all sorts of electrical gremlins as these cars are very sensitive to decent voltage.
Also, it is not advised to jump start them either for the same reasons of sensitivity and it can blow things like the transmission ecu ect.

Get a new battery.

 

[conaero]

I had a similar thing in the Strad on Thursday after emerging from its winter slumber.

The dash did not illuminate. The centre panel did just not the dash clocks.

When I drove home at the end of the day it magically had fixed itself. It’s all from low battery and lack of use.