Swap cluster from another car onto mine....

Swap cluster from another car onto mine....

I want to swap in a cluster wit a tach onto mine. Mine only has the mph, gas and engine temp. What can i do that it will keep my mileage and not have the other persons that i bought it from. This is a continuation of my older post idk if i should have added it there or not but w/e

Swap the whole cluster, then, swap you speedometer, that way you can keep yout mileage.

A few things to consider first though.

If you've got a non-S cluster, and you want to swap the speedo, you're gonna have to pull the needles off to swap the faces/feeds (the S clusters have red needles and red/black faces). After you do this, your speedo WILL be off, until you re-calibrate it, (or you can ghetto it by driving around the neighborhood following your friend, relaying speeds over the phone til you've adjusted it right).

Also, if you don't have an S, your rear-defrost light is probably on your current gauge cluster - this isn't true on the S-style clusters, so you'll have to solder those wires directly onto the cluster for your rear-defrost light to work.

I swaped mine a few months ago and had no problems at all, all you have 2 do is crack open both clster and change your seedo part so you cna keep your same ODO readings... eveything else is pretty plug and play...

i did have an issue with the left turn light and the rear defogger light being swaped around... but it was fixed just clipping and swaping around some wires. Everything pretty easy.

If you need any help I have some scans of the wiring diagram CW sent me a while back, they were a great help, I can send them to you if you want just pm me.

I would need to take off my plastic covering anyway because the one i'm probably gonna get is a scratched one. So i'm gonna take the clear plastic covering off my current one and put it on there.

So the odometer is pretty easy to swap?

yes... its just as easy as removing 4 or 6 screws that hold the ODO to the cluster and swapping them over.

alright. But if i swap the odometer most likely i'll need my speed guage recalibrated?

If you don't take the needle off it will be o.k.

just be carefull not to drop it or move the needle...
if so, no recalibration is needed

stupid question, since is a digital odometer when you swap would it read the new miles or still the one of the car you took it off.

The miles is stored in the speedometer.

so basically i would need to take apart my console and take the odometer out and put it into the new one to have my current mileage

Yes sir. It'll take you about 20 minutes to do the whole thing. There are four screws holding the speedo/odometer together in the back. Pop it out, and swap that into your new cluster. If your faces are diff (needles too, this happens when you swap S clusters for VE/CE/LE clusters), you can swap those too, but be wary that you WILL need to recalibrate the speedo, either the ghetto way, or professionally.

I actually did this myself recently, re-calibrated it by having a friend relay speeds to me on the freeway, and looks real nice. I bought a set of indiglos for it - pics in the show off section.