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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2011, 04:10:21 pm »
Liking the lit needles Lee, but liking the White back light even more  :happy2:

I assume the change in back light colour is a hardware change (I.e. New LED's behind the clocks) rather than a simple coding change?

Andrew

Cheers Andrew, Yes its a hardware change new SMD LED's.

I think the blue back lighting matched well with the old MFD2 but didnt look right against the RNS. I think the RNS being a newer unit is set up to compliment the newer white/black DIS.

I personally didnt do my cluster it was like it when I bought it (Going from mid to highline) I didnt even know and was very surprised when it lit up white! Much easier to read too.

Although I have done one conversion for a mate and it was pretty straight forward, just have to make sure the LED's are soldered in the correct orientation :happy2:

@ Darren if he reads this, is there any way of changing the RNS maps or is it a v7 thing? Im sure the older maps night colours were much better than the brown/beige they are now?? I thought changing the RNS theme from Sportline/Highline/Premium might make a difference but no luck.

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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #31 on: January 10, 2011, 02:11:10 am »
Lee I think its built into the maps so not sure it can be changed,

Just changed a couple of things in the Hex editor and line 122 sprung up :happy2: going to have another go tomorrow.

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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #32 on: January 10, 2011, 05:25:52 am »
Lee I think its built into the maps so not sure it can be changed,

Just changed a couple of things in the Hex editor and line 122 sprung up :happy2: going to have another go tomorrow.

Darren

youll get there in the end lad, waiting patiently lol,
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #33 on: January 10, 2011, 11:32:48 am »
Lee I think its built into the maps so not sure it can be changed,

Just changed a couple of things in the Hex editor and line 122 sprung up :happy2: going to have another go tomorrow.

Darren

Cheers Darren,

You probably know this, if you click address in XVI32 and then 'go to' type in 122 make sure its on hexdecimal it'll take you to the right value.

If you look on the left it should actually be address 10E in the hex editor  :happy2:
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #34 on: January 11, 2011, 05:03:11 pm »
Tried every thing now and just will not take the new hex code :confused: Lee can you send me a PM of exactly what you did from start to finish :happy2:

Ill then sort some pic out.

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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #35 on: January 11, 2011, 05:13:01 pm »
My mate is saying the same thing!!

Don't think its the version of k commander do you??
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #36 on: January 11, 2011, 06:08:55 pm »
Dont think so Lee cos it does every thing else...I fitted 3 sets of R32 clocks and don't my original diesel highline ages ago?

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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #37 on: January 11, 2011, 07:13:31 pm »
I'm clutching at straws really mate.

My mate done his cluster swap with his and he can't get any joy with the lit needles.

What I did was open k commander, click 07 kombi, click on instruments, read eeprom, save two copies to laptop, one labeled modded file-one labeled original file.

Open XVI32 click on file, open the modded file, click on address, click on go to,enter 122 in the box making sure hexdecimal is checked, change F4 to F2 (OR 74 to 72), click file, save as modded file.

Open k commander, click 07 kombi, click instruments, check vehicle model says golf v, read eeprom, click load file (or saved file cannot remember now), click write eeprom, close window, click reset cluster.

I left the car, locked it and left it for a couple of hours as I was told you have to let the cluster fully shut off??

When I went back I had lit needles.

Darren I'v written all this from memory as it's a pain to use k commander on my laptop because of the antivirus, even if I turn it off it causes problems so I have to completely delete it!!

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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2011, 07:43:13 pm »
any luck on this then guys?
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2011, 09:11:57 pm »
Yes thanks, mine are lit  :happy2:
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #40 on: March 17, 2011, 12:39:41 am »
Yes thanks, mine are lit  :happy2:

are yours the r32 dials then? are you saying youve got r32 cluster with lit needles? the blue ones
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #41 on: April 06, 2011, 08:58:30 pm »
am i right in thinking then that r32 clusters cant have lit needles? :(
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #42 on: April 06, 2011, 09:00:26 pm »
All clusters can have lit needles.....

GTI/R32 or Standard
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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #43 on: April 07, 2011, 02:32:10 pm »
 :jumping: Hopefully mine will be lit by the end of the week....lol

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Re: Are your needles lit???
« Reply #44 on: April 09, 2011, 01:49:26 am »
All clusters can have lit needles.....

GTI/R32 or Standard

can you enable lit needles on my cluster mate?
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