SRT-4 Cluster w/ Gauges

chinny · Post by **chinny** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:13 pm

I was wondering if it would be a straight swap with a 00 Neon, and would i lose my mileage count.. i plan on going to some junkyards and see what i can find. I want to do this because my stock gauges dont have a tach and their boring :/

Post by **Diablo0** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:40 pm

I believe that yes they will swap over but i do know that yes you will lose your mileage and that the mileage on the swapped cluster will display. so if you had 50K on your car and you swap in a cluster that had 20K... it'll display 20K

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:06 pm

Diablo0 wrote:but i do know that yes you will lose your mileage and that the mileage on the swapped cluster will display.

That's stupid. Why did Daimler Chrysler do this? Why couldn't the mileage be stored in the car's computer like the GM vehicles are since they're digital readouts?

chinny · Post by **chinny** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:39 pm

^^ Now im stuck without a Tach, unless i get a separate one.. wich sucks.

btw, Check out my PS request

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:52 pm

if you do get another cluster, make sure u know how many miles your original one had on it before the swap so you can keep track of how many miles your car really has. i got lucky when i did my swap, its only 1,xxxmi. off from my actually milage, just luck of the draw

a random gauge cluster i found at a junkyard

chinny · Post by **chinny** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:09 pm

is there anyway to re-do the shown miles after the swap, like set them to the old miles... their must be a way.

8082ndgen · Post by **8082ndgen** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:13 pm

A very kind and competent dodge dealer will do it for you because they have the machines and tools necesary to do the job. Don;t know how much it will cost, though

John

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:19 pm

i always heard they had to send off both clusters in order to do that, thats why i never had mine done...can they do that stuff right at the dealership?

8082ndgen · Post by **8082ndgen** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:05 am

They should be able to, last I heard that they could do it in about an hour. But it'll cost ya.......How much, I don't know.

John

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:41 am

they should be able to hit it with the DRB3 and reprogram it...

powerman_dsr · Post by **powerman_dsr** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:32 pm

thats weird my experense with orther neons is that the millage is on the computer not the speedo or cluster

ilpadrino · Post by **ilpadrino** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:59 pm

scneonchic501 wrote:i always heard they had to send off both clusters in order to do that, thats why i never had mine done...can they do that stuff right at the dealership?

I think it was on the 'Speed that one of the members said that he got it done right on the spot. He said he came up with the story that the original one had malfunctioned or something and the guy was sympathetic to his situation. Off the top of my head, I think he said it cost like 50-75 bucks? Don't quote me on that, though.

Others said that they just take note of what the original mileage is and go to the DMV and report the change. That way, it's "official." I'm reluctant to do that though since the DMV=long wait. Then again i got a brand new toy (my laptop) so maybe I can bring it along while I'm there to help pass the time.

SilverSRT05 · Post by **SilverSRT05** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:31 am

I was reading somewhere that you could take the cluster apart and just change out the little display and it would work that way.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:46 am

you mean swap the display screens on the 2 clusters?

SilverSRT05 · Post by **SilverSRT05** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:07 pm

yeah swap out the odometer displays.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:41 pm

i wish i would have known that when i did mine

oh well, the new one is only 2k off from what the milage actually is

SilverSRT05 · Post by **SilverSRT05** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:17 am

scneonchic501 wrote:i wish i would have known that when i did mine

oh well, the new one is only 2k off from what the milage actually is

I dont know if you can or not i was just saying that i heard of people possibly doing it. I am going to try it when i get a cluster with a tak

djchompa · Post by **djchompa** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:40 pm

itll be cool if you knew someone that could do that so whenever you sell the car it wont have many miles on it lol

Frizbe · Post by **Frizbe** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:40 pm

djchompa wrote:itll be cool if you knew someone that could do that so whenever you sell the car it wont have many miles on it lol

Have you heard of Odometer Fruad?

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:08 pm

ssshhhhh....
I sold a 250,000 mile dodge shadow with only 110,oomile on the odometer...rolled it back with a drill.....

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:21 pm

BlackRoseRacing wrote:ssshhhhh....
I sold a 250,000 mile dodge shadow with only 110,oomile on the odometer...rolled it back with a drill.....

I dunno if I'd brag about that too much.

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:01 pm

its been over 2years....

anywho, im pretty sure the mileage can be re-programed, as for the dealer doing it...I know for a FACT that the PCM or BCM can have the mileage changed, wether or not it effects the odometer on the dash, I honestly don't know....

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:52 am

I ripped apart my old cluster (I too got lucky and randomly got a new cluster with exactly 2k miles ahead of my original) cause I heard you can swap out the computer board the odometer is at (don't know the technical term for it sorry) so the new cluster reads your old mileage. I tried it, and it still read the same new mileage. So I did some more research and found out you have to use a soldering iron to actually swap out things on the computer board of the odometer. I stopped right there and just noted the difference in mileage.

I don't know if it's true or not, but I wasn't going to go any further.

SilverSRT05 · Post by **SilverSRT05** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:34 pm

thanks for clearing that up. Where did you find the onfo for that.

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:50 pm

I honestly don't remember, this was about 2 years ago. I was on neons.org alot, so possibly on there somewhere. But good luck trying to find it again, and don't dare post a question about it in the forum cause all you'll get in response is, "Don't you know how to use the search?"

SilverSRT05 · Post by **SilverSRT05** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:00 pm

thats the truth. I may do it anyways just to see what people say.

79cutlas · Post by **79cutlas** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:56 pm

LOL, I'll definaly have to file an odometer disclosure when/if I ever sell my car, I swapped out my old cluster about 2 years ago, and then the speedometer stopped working after my tranny swap, so my car has had the same 35871 miles for the last year or so, oh well, quite frankly, i'm not planning to sell it, nor would I tell anyone about the swap if I did.