Changing the mileage ?

[Vince70]

I wonder if someone could help I own a very early 1994/95 poverty spec 1.6 A4 which has low mileage 64000 and I've noticed the rev counter is sticking and the analogue clock only works when the is ignition on.

So today I bought a cheap set of clocks which are off an early 1.8 (immobiliser 1) so I haven't got to worry about the immobiliser being built into the cluster as the car is an early one.

The problem will be the mileage I doubt the mileage will be as low on the new set of clocks,
is there any cheap way of changing the mileage or could I take the speedo out of my old cluster and refit in the new cluster, or could I be lucky and find that the mileage is stored on the ECU rather than the clocks on an early A4.

[John.]

You could scrap it and buy an 80 or 90 !!??
Just my thoughts........
Apologies....had a beer.

[Vince70]

I already have one of those lol.
And at least it doesn't have a digital speedo

[andydunn2]

I'm guessing but I'm pretty sure you could take the speedo out of your old clock and put it in your new one. I can't see them being a bonded unit so should be just old fashioned screws and plugs.

Would be a better option than clocking your new clocks.....

[Hoyle]

Does it have digital display for the mileage?

[John.]

Originally Posted by Vince70

I already have one of those lol.

What about...... http://www.mileagechanger.com/

[Vince70]

Originally Posted by Hoyle

Does it have digital display for the mileage?

Yes it does have a digital display I was thinking. About taking the unit apart and taking out the old speedo and fitting it to the new one.

The only problem is that the new cluster has made in uk where and the old one is made in Germany.

Although the cluster will work swapping straight over ( both immob 1 basic early clusters) I'm not sure the parts inside will be interchangeable as looking on the back of the clusters their is a slight difference in shape and colour.

[Hoyle]

Vagtacho will help you out here

[Vince70]

Thanks Hoyle,
I'm not really up on VAG software but I bought one of these,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/VAG-COM-409-...ywords=Vag+com

And I'm still waiting for it to arrive as I also now need to turn the airbag light off as it came on after I had taken the clocks out.

Is Vag Tacho a different lead or software that I need to put the mileage back,
I also have the dreaded MOT tomorrow so I know it will at least fail on the airbag light and hope the lead arrives soon.

[msh]

Yes, it is different. With ordinary OBD2 cable you can only read faults, set coding and set mileage on new instrument cluster that has less than 100 kilometres - or miles. On used cluster you cannot set mileage with OBD2 cable.

Originally Posted by andydunn2

I'm guessing but I'm pretty sure you could take the speedo out of your old clock and put it in your new one. I can't see them being a bonded unit so should be just old fashioned screws and plugs.

Would be a better option than clocking your new clocks.....

You're very wrong. The old, simple, modular system has gone with B4 and C4 A100, since then it's all one unit, controlled by microprocessor and it has a firmware.