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Polar fis on retrofitted highline clocks
smifffy9:
Hello all,
For Christmas Santa brought me a polar fis :smiley:
Unfortunately when I went to fit it, it doesn’t look like the guide on the website. (Above the pedals)
I am wondering because my high line clocks are retrofitted, does this mean I don’t have a certain module or a different set up?
Can anyone point me in the right direction I’m stuck! :sad1:
Andy:
It should work fine as it did on my old gttdi
Matto:
When fitting mine it was easier to remove the wipers, scuttle panel and wiper motor, then remove the small cover behind the motor to access the canbus. There was no way of getting at it from inside the car.
You will also find the cable is long enough to feed through in to the little cubby by the headlight switch and store the Polar unit itself. Also makes it easier for updates etc.
pudding:
As above. I couldn't see how it was possible to get at the CAN gateway from below!
I ended up selling the Polar FIS because the display was too laggy for me. It was OK for things like oil and water temp that don't refresh very often but boost and lambda changed too fast and the ancient highline display couldn't keep up, so was a bit blurry. Seemed worse when it was cold.
It's a nice gimmick but if I need to know anything, I just data log a journey with VCDS instead :smiley:
NitrousOxide:
I'm about to retrofit a MK6 GTI Highline clock on my MK5 GTI.
Are you saying that the PolarFIS would also be slow for updating for me as well?
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