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TDubbs25
 


Member Since: 18 Jan 2011
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United States 2008 LR3 4.4 V8 SE Auto Zambezi SilverLR3
Instrument Cluster is shot

Hi,

Drove my D3 home tonight & all of a sudden the guages went awry & the text on the LCD screen is unreadable & back lighting is off.

I have checked all relevant fuses & checked for faults w/ my faultmate.......no faults w/ the cluster Crying or Very sad

Anyone else had this problem?

Can I buy a new cluster off ebay & install it, then clear faults & it will work ?

I hope someone can help me out !!!!

Thanks in advance
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Post #83445613th Sep 2011 2:20 am
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Hi T,
I have no idea what the fault may be. Sad However, I doubt that fitting another instrument panel will work without enabling by dealer, or similar. (the odometer etc will need to be set to be in agreement with the ecu.

Best of Luck,
Peter The Bearded Dragon 

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Post #83446313th Sep 2011 6:21 am
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Have a look at this thread.
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic62190.h...%2Bcluster Home of LLAMS, for LRs and Jeep GCs  
Post #83449413th Sep 2011 9:01 am
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You can replace the cluster with another unit but you can not change the vin in all clusters, in my experience about 50% can be reprogrammed. You can change the vin and ccf data with the faultmate msv2, don't know which faultmate you have?  
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TDubbs25
 


Member Since: 18 Jan 2011
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Gav00353 wrote:
You can replace the cluster with another unit but you can not change the vin in all clusters, in my experience about 50% can be reprogrammed. You can change the vin and ccf data with the faultmate msv2, don't know which faultmate you have?



Hi,

Thanks for the reply........I have the Faultmate MSV2, can you please give more details about how I might get this to work. My current instrument cluster is pretty much useless, especially at night b/c the backlighting is gone. The only thing working is the Tachometer, judging speed by RPM's sux.

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Flack
 


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TDubbs25

Have you tried to reload a backup file from your ccf to see if that has gone corrupt...?.

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If you get hold of a cluster just reload your original ccf file to the new cluster then see if the vin has changed? The mileage will be that of the new/shand cluster but this can be changed. As flack said you could try reloading your ccf file back to the ip, also you could reflash the ip with new software which I had done after I thought I had fried my ip and it fixed it.
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TDubbs25
 


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I just got a "new" to me instrument cluster today.

Obviously it is not PNP.......I need some help from you guys on how to get this working in my car.

I have the Faultmate MSV2 & I am ready to use it, I just don't know where to start.

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TDubbs25

Just write your backup file to the ip and see where you go from there.

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