Originally posted by KyleH:
Ok I determined that this is actually a E1 cluster since the temperature gauge doesn't say normal on it and the parking brake light is in a different spot than the pics of an E0 cluster I found.

So I disassembled the two clusters and swapped the SVT needles and the faces to my original cluster only now I've got a bigger problem. The spedometer now doesn't work (electronics from original cluster installed in car) when the car first moves the needle jumps up to around 100KPH and then just sits there wile the car is moving, it doesn't change at all no matter how fast/slow I drive. Once I come to a stop after about a second it slowly falls back to 0.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?




Oh god! Why in the world would you swap the needles?

That was totally wrong to do. It is very hard to calibrate the needles to work correctly. You need to make sure the needles are pressed down onto the metal pins just right, otherwise they do not move freely. And, you have to get them onto just the right spot otherwise you will get totally wrong readings.

And, swapping the faces was really wrong also. The needles will move to the position of your old speedometer.

So since your old speedometer does not go upto 260 kmh, theres no way the SVT gauge face on your old cluster will work right. The needle will always be in the wrong position.

So now you need to get the needles and face back onto the SVT cluster, but theres no way to calibrate it since it does not work on your car. You'll need to find a Contique that will accept the gauges to do that.


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