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Hi, I think regarding your issue there's must be an answer from this video


its on duration 15:56.
 

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So based on the video above, apparently after you code the KVA_OELTEMP, the oil warm up lights didn't turned on at once as you need to edit the hex.
 

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Yeah it works, with scanner everything is easy



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is the fuel consumption gauge has changed to oil temp?
 

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Thank you so so much for the help! It really worked.
(don't forget to save the changes before rewriting the EEPROM😅)

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Now I only have to figure out a way to cut the difusor behind the dashboard...
glad to see its working. I've ordered the LED's and chips from digikey, hopefully it'll arrive soon and try this mod by myself.

is it hard to do the "soldering" part?
 
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Just take your time :)
I used a small soldering tip and small tweezers. Was a bit fiddly but worked on the first try. Just make sure, you dont have any shorts
thanks for the tip :), as for the "tachoscheibe" I don't know that in english. Have you sourced it?
I'm sure the "tachoscheibe" need to be custom made as the standard one did not have the pattern on the RPM gauge to show the LED's.
 

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Yeah you definitely don’t want to do it like I did. I will order a fresh one from eBay
that's good! keep us updated.
 

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while letting the car warm up, I stumbled apon some strange behaviour:
The LEDs turn off in the order 1 to 5, but the circled LED in the top right corner stays on... Is that supposed to happen?
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I have M3 cluster on my car, but its the original m3 one, it act the same like yours. When the engine is cold like I've parked the car for a night then in the morning I turned the car up the LED's is fully turn on like the picture below, but when the engine is on fully working temperature the LED's would go down to 7000 RPM. So I think yours is completely normal.




here is my LED setup on the MS43.



 

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While operating the regular cluster with the LEDs we notice that they are only properly placed inside the m3 cluster since the segmentation of the rpm is slightly different.

so to do it like 99 percent correctly you would need to solder some wires and then move the leds to the proper position.
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one question though, where did you bought your cluster overlay?
 

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I rewired a few of the LEDs so they fit better into their segments and also replaced them with some 450 mcd strong ones since the old ones with 210 mcd weren’t visible during sunshine. They are still not too bright for night rides

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wow the reslut came up nicely!
anyway, I checked the link of the cluster overlay yesterday. But it has 300kmh version, does the seller has the same the one like yours? I messeged the seller but hasn't replied yet.
 

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Hi, I'm back! has anyone ever swap the fuel econometer underneath the RPM gauge to Oil Temp gauge on non m cluster?
 

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So yeah. You need to move leds to fit it but maybe someone have m3 eeprom to play with it?
I have m3 eeprom I've taken out from my original M3 cluster. Now I'm wondering how to change the Fuel Economy Gauge to Oil Temp just like M3

here is the link of my eeprom

 

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So im trying to do some update on my cluster. From what i found, procesor in bosch cluster can be different and thats why it cant show oil temp. So i've got idea that i can add my oil temp gauge, my oil temp sender and try to fit it to oryginal cluster. I couple of days i will try to test it. View attachment 962699
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wow nice! keep us updated!
 

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