Instrument Cluster Language
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From: Levin
Yeah - I had a chat to that guy - Dont think I'll bother for the cost and inconvenience. Most of the dash is in english its just the one right hand cluster that shows some error messages and consumption info - Its all stuff you can find elsewhere so not worth the expense.
At some point I'm going to order the Car Play kit too so when taking the dash apart to fit that I might look at access to the cluster but sounds like a P.I.T.A - I'm anti taking the dash apart as the last car I did it on (My daughters VW Golf) had issues where some clips broke and it was never the same again. This dash is so mint my wife is going to kill me if there is so much as a dent in the fascia
I've read some things that indicate it can be done for Forscan but then haven't actually found the info on how. It was all to do with some four digit codes specifying the region and I found the Asia Pacific region - What I read indicated all the region data was programmed in at the factory and it was just a case of changing the code. I think the complexity comes in updating checksums once the codes are changed or it throws a goat.
At some point I'm going to order the Car Play kit too so when taking the dash apart to fit that I might look at access to the cluster but sounds like a P.I.T.A - I'm anti taking the dash apart as the last car I did it on (My daughters VW Golf) had issues where some clips broke and it was never the same again. This dash is so mint my wife is going to kill me if there is so much as a dent in the fascia
I've read some things that indicate it can be done for Forscan but then haven't actually found the info on how. It was all to do with some four digit codes specifying the region and I found the Asia Pacific region - What I read indicated all the region data was programmed in at the factory and it was just a case of changing the code. I think the complexity comes in updating checksums once the codes are changed or it throws a goat.
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Yeah - I'd be real keen to hear how you go - I've watched some videos and it doesn't actually look that bad at all - Just a case of being patient and careful while prying your way in. I've already got a new enough software version to support it - Not the latest but it does support the Carplay module.
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Sorry. Chickened out. Combination of talk about getting values wrong borking stuff up and I found a place who in the end did it (on 3rd visit) and the dealer paid for it. OEM audio in Sydenham did it for me. They use an android phone hooked to a cable. By the sound of it the software connects to a server that calculates the values and does the change so the phone is just a conduit to a cloud service. From what they said the guy who writes it is NZ based.
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