This is something I've thought about for long time but never had the opportunity to put it in to motion.
After a chat to some lads on the forum, 1 of them had a set of old butchered 98 clocks and someone else had a set of facelift clocks with some dead pixels in the dis.
I meet up with the lads at a recent car show, got home and started stripping and hacking the 98 clocks.
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One Set of Pre-facelift clocks |
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Remove front cover |
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Remove back cover. I want the Green, Blue and the remains of the red plug. |
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Remove clock faces. |
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Remove the white pits from the clocks. |
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Start cutting. |
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That's one plug off. |
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Two plugs off. |
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That's the three plugs I want. |
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Trim them down, tidy up and remove any bits on the back. |
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Remains of Pre-facelift clocks and Facelift plugs. |
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Solder the facelift plugs on to the back of the pre-facelift plugs. |
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One converter loom made. |
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Plug in and test. |
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I need to get the immobilizer code. |
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I'm able to wire the doors up. |
It works, nothing went pop. Which I'm happy about.
I need to code theses clocks to the car and my key to the clocks, reset the miles to mine and in theory it should all work. I can't test the speedo or revs cause I can't start the car. Hopefully I'll have a copy of Vagtacho or VAG commander soon to get the coding under way.
I also ordered a oil sensor to wire up and I think that's it.
UPDATE
I've received a oil level sensor this morning.
Going to attempt wiring it to the clocks this week. This should hopefully remove the oil sensor error from the clocks. Should get a VAG Commander cable this week to sort out the immob coding issues.
By next weekend, Hopefully, the car should be running and drivable with the new clocks in.
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