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What did you do to your B5 today?
1st Gear
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 156
From: N.H.
Where in NH you from man? I think you bought the spoiler i was going after lol. damnit! nice buy.
3rd Gear
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,973
From: Costa Mesa, SoCal
Today was a day off for me because at work we get our birthdays off (my b-day was actually Saturday).
So I was busy working on my A4, of course. First thing, added in a modified turbo-to-exhaust-manifold gasket, as I didn't have one in there (wanted to try that out).
Spent most of the day messing with wiring to convert my car from a cluster with only dummy lights, to a cluster with a LCD screen The new LCD screen I soldered in last week works perfectly too! All the wiring worked out of the first try... had to change out the wiper arm with one that has up/down/reset buttons, had to add 4 wires to the wiper arms connector, added in a wire to the ECU that allows the cluster to gather fuel consumption information, and grounded the wires that are used to indicate bulb out and low washer fluid. Yay! Now I'm gonna send out that cluster to have its mileage changed to zero so I can reset it to my car's actual mileage.
So I was busy working on my A4, of course. First thing, added in a modified turbo-to-exhaust-manifold gasket, as I didn't have one in there (wanted to try that out).
Spent most of the day messing with wiring to convert my car from a cluster with only dummy lights, to a cluster with a LCD screen
The new LCD screen I soldered in last week works perfectly too! All the wiring worked out of the first try... had to change out the wiper arm with one that has up/down/reset buttons, had to add 4 wires to the wiper arms connector, added in a wire to the ECU that allows the cluster to gather fuel consumption information, and grounded the wires that are used to indicate bulb out and low washer fluid. Yay! Now I'm gonna send out that cluster to have its mileage changed to zero so I can reset it to my car's actual mileage.
Nottingham...
The kid selling it was from Durham, we met up in Lee acoupla weeks ago. I live in Nottingham which is a small town trapped between Northwood, Raymond, and Epping. Hopefully this 'was not the spoiler you were looking for' (inastormtroopervoice)
whereabouts you from?
Moderator
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 2,380
Today was a day off for me because at work we get our birthdays off (my b-day was actually Saturday).
So I was busy working on my A4, of course. First thing, added in a modified turbo-to-exhaust-manifold gasket, as I didn't have one in there (wanted to try that out).
Spent most of the day messing with wiring to convert my car from a cluster with only dummy lights, to a cluster with a LCD screen The new LCD screen I soldered in last week works perfectly too! All the wiring worked out of the first try... had to change out the wiper arm with one that has up/down/reset buttons, had to add 4 wires to the wiper arms connector, added in a wire to the ECU that allows the cluster to gather fuel consumption information, and grounded the wires that are used to indicate bulb out and low washer fluid. Yay! Now I'm gonna send out that cluster to have its mileage changed to zero so I can reset it to my car's actual mileage.
So I was busy working on my A4, of course. First thing, added in a modified turbo-to-exhaust-manifold gasket, as I didn't have one in there (wanted to try that out).
Spent most of the day messing with wiring to convert my car from a cluster with only dummy lights, to a cluster with a LCD screen
The new LCD screen I soldered in last week works perfectly too! All the wiring worked out of the first try... had to change out the wiper arm with one that has up/down/reset buttons, had to add 4 wires to the wiper arms connector, added in a wire to the ECU that allows the cluster to gather fuel consumption information, and grounded the wires that are used to indicate bulb out and low washer fluid. Yay! Now I'm gonna send out that cluster to have its mileage changed to zero so I can reset it to my car's actual mileage.- where did you tap the ecu for fuel consumption
- you can swap eeproms. its whats holds the mileage in your cluster. would be free and not need resetting
3rd Gear
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,973
From: Costa Mesa, SoCal
-I tapped into pin 18 on the longer ECU connector, the yellow wire. This wire actually goes to a brown connector behind/below the ECU, so I snipped the yellow wire out of that connector and extended the wire to connect it to the cluster. Haven't tested this out yet because I don't want to put any miles on that cluster.
-Do you have more information on this? I'm very capable at soldering. I was planning on sending $40 with my cluster to a guy who can reset the mileage to zero, but if possible I'd definitely like to do it myself! (And save the shipping time...)
Moderator
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 2,380
awesome that the grounding worked. I'm walking out there to do it now. I can't wait to have accurate fuel readings in the MFA
heres a link the only important thing is the picture, works fine and saves $40
B5 A4/S4: How to Swap your cluster - EuroAutoForums
heres a link the only important thing is the picture, works fine and saves $40
B5 A4/S4: How to Swap your cluster - EuroAutoForums