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Old Feb 23, 2010 | 07:03 PM
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Default Speedometer Says the Car has 0 miles

So I replaced the cluster in my parents monte for them and now the car has 0 miles. Does the dealer need to flash something? It is a brand new gauge cluster and it works great now.
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 07:06 PM
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lmao ive never heard anyone disconnecting the cluster themselves. i think a shop is suppose to do that. also i think thats illegal.
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 07:10 PM
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posted by Wayne when he had a gauge cluster for sale!!! read below all the pics and see his respones about legal issues!!

Originally Posted by RocknSS04
For sale is a gauge cluster from an '02 Intimidator SS. In my opinion, this is THE gauge cluster to have for any true Dale Earnhardt fan. I believe this is the finest gauge cluster ever put on a 6th gen Monte Carlo. It is a bolt in replacement for any 6th gen Monte carlo (2000 - 2005) EXCEPT the supercharged models, which have a boost gauge instead of the voltmeter.

I bought this 2 1/2 years ago with full intentions of removing the speedometer overlay and putting it in my '04 Intimidator SS. Personal reasons has kept me from doing so. This is a VERY rare item. From what I remember, it has about 29,000 miles on the odometer.




To do a legal install, you must take it to a dealer and have your vehicles mileage transferred to their computer and, and from there to this cluster. Or do as I was going to do (as this cluster doesn't work in my car because it is supercharged) and swap the speedometer overlay with the overlay on your vehicles cluster, which is perfectly legal. Installing this cluster without transferring mileage is odometer tampering, and is a federal offense.

I'm giving my MCF family 1st crack at this item. I'm not listing it on ANY other Monte Carlo forums. I'll leave it here for a week, then if it's not sold, it's going to ebay, where I got it. I'm asking $225 shipped by UPS, and I paid more than that for it.

PM me with questions.
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 07:15 PM
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nice gauges. do they work on a 7th gen? i want to get different gauges or covers, but i think theres only blue and silver??? youd think thered be white or red.

smooth move teach
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 07:52 PM
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lmao, sell the car, its brand new and never used! lol you should get them transferred tho
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 07:56 PM
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Yay get to pull it again. lol at least it is not hard. Where is the actual mileage stored? is it in the cluster itself or bcm, ecm, etc...
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 09:18 PM
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im pretty sure its in the cluster, not a 100% sure but thats make most sense, to me at least ha
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 09:51 PM
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That seems silly to me. If you were a crook you would just swap out a new cluster and you golden. I would think that it would store in the bcm or other brain. I have the original cluster so will get it fixed.

Thanks for the reply though.
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 10:00 PM
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its stored in the computer, i had the cluster changed on the gmc, nowadays they know when someone changes em out
 
Old Feb 23, 2010 | 10:09 PM
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thats what I figured.
 



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