The last few months I have been working on my 2013 Cruze eco that had been sitting for several years. It had overheaded and got parked. I replaced the head and gasket as well as the timing chain, turbo, water pump, intake manifold, and valve cover. Not long ago I was looking a verano over in the junkyard and really prefer the instrument cluster when compared to the cruze. I pulled the cluster and reprogramed the eeprom with the bin from the eco. This leads to a few problems, the eco's menus are not present. The outside temp is wayyyy off. Now if I just move the dial face to the cruze cluster I have the issue with the speedometer. The verano dial goes to 160 versus the 140 for the cruze. Is there a way to calibrate this differently through the vin? I prefer the white needles on the verano as opposed the the orange/red for the cruze. These needles are colored in part by the LED lights on the board. I can certainly solder white LEDs on the cruze cluster in place of red. Has anybody really played around with the programing on the clusters to really be able to map it out and figure out what does what?
Has anybody used a verano cluster in a Cruze?
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The last few months I have been working on my 2013 Cruze eco that had been sitting for several years. It had overheaded and got parked. I replaced the head and gasket as well as the timing chain, turbo, water pump, intake manifold, and valve cover. Not long ago I was looking a verano over in the junkyard and really prefer the instrument cluster when compared to the cruze. I pulled the cluster and reprogramed the eeprom with the bin from the eco. This leads to a few problems, the eco's menus are not present. The outside temp is wayyyy off. Now if I just move the dial face to the cruze cluster I have the issue with the speedometer. The verano dial goes to 160 versus the 140 for the cruze. Is there a way to calibrate this differently through the vin? I prefer the white needles on the verano as opposed the the orange/red for the cruze. These needles are colored in part by the LED lights on the board. I can certainly solder white LEDs on the cruze cluster in place of red. Has anybody really played around with the programing on the clusters to really be able to map it out and figure out what does what?
2014 LT program car, Pull Me Over Red, 1.4T Auto, modified: Lowered, Tuned by Trifecta
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Don't forget to introduce yourself and your Cruze here.
Not many here has said anything about this that I know of.
These probably will not help you, but this is all I have:
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I started doing this but gave up when i couldn't get the crap off the chip that needs programmed with you VIN #. I do like the looks of that cluster better.
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It's an SPI Flash EEPROM, you need to change the settings in the program and move the ribbon cable to the other side of the socket on the usb adapter. Additionally, for this I used NEOprogramer so that I could write to the chip. The chip is write protected and this allows you to unlock it.
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