Newbie to E30's and wasn't sure where to put this so bear with me....
Ok so my car is an 89 325is (production date 10/88 )and my cluster has been acting goofy lately. The speedo and tach work fine but the coolant gauge is pegged out and sometimes the fuel gauge pegs out (I can tap on the cluster and the fuel gauge goes back to normal)
Now I got lucky and found an 89 325i in the junkyard with miles real close to mine so I nabbed it, brought it home plugged it in and the fuel gauge and the coolant gauge work but not the tach or the speedo... I even swaped over those coding plugs on the bottem of the cluster to see if maybe that made a difference, but nothing.
There are only two physical differences I can see in the clusters and I was curious if maybe they were the issue...
Above is a picture of my cluster and the junkyard cluster.
My original cluster says VDO and has the yellow plug in the center.
The junkyard cluster says Motometer and has a maroon color plug in the center.
Both the VDO cluster and the Motometer cluster have stickers on the back of the cluster with "1385581" on them.
I know that the green plug is for the speedo, the blue plug houses the tach symbol but is the yellow/maroon plug thing being different affecting the speedo/tech?
Can I swap the speedo and tech from my old cluster into this cluster?
Ok so my car is an 89 325is (production date 10/88 )and my cluster has been acting goofy lately. The speedo and tach work fine but the coolant gauge is pegged out and sometimes the fuel gauge pegs out (I can tap on the cluster and the fuel gauge goes back to normal)
Now I got lucky and found an 89 325i in the junkyard with miles real close to mine so I nabbed it, brought it home plugged it in and the fuel gauge and the coolant gauge work but not the tach or the speedo... I even swaped over those coding plugs on the bottem of the cluster to see if maybe that made a difference, but nothing.
There are only two physical differences I can see in the clusters and I was curious if maybe they were the issue...
Above is a picture of my cluster and the junkyard cluster.
My original cluster says VDO and has the yellow plug in the center.
The junkyard cluster says Motometer and has a maroon color plug in the center.
Both the VDO cluster and the Motometer cluster have stickers on the back of the cluster with "1385581" on them.
I know that the green plug is for the speedo, the blue plug houses the tach symbol but is the yellow/maroon plug thing being different affecting the speedo/tech?
Can I swap the speedo and tech from my old cluster into this cluster?
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