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...Now this means the conversion the importers done was botched, or the replacement is showing incorrect info. I'm more inclined to believe the former (conversion was done wrong)
When the dash is converted to miles, it doesn't change the odometer. What you are left with is x amount in km from the original reading. Then once its chipped it starts counting in miles. So your original dash is now a mixture of both. It's not a bodge job it's just how it's doneOK people, from this thread, I managed to source a dash with what i suspected had the fuel gauge work done. (Not cheap but worth it i feel - yes, it was a bit of a risk just in case it didnt turn out well for me) - theres a lot out there, but a lot of the time, the wiring loom is missing or has been chopped off.
I have fitted it, like for like swap.
One thing i didnt think about before doing this, is that the "new" replacement dash (with the fuel gauge recall work), is in KM - which i dont mind too much, previous had been converted into miles.
So Interestingly, my old dash was showing 105,775 miles. New dash is showing 175,5548 km - google conversion, shows that equates to 109,080 miles - so this replacement has added 3,305 miles to my car.
More interestingly concerns the fuel gauges. So the digital fuel screen BEFORE showed i had 198Km left in the tank to go. After fitting the replacement dash, it shows i have 257km left in the tank (hopefully more accurate and this is possibly the crux of the issue if you dont have the work done) - 60km inaccuracy approx
Here are some photos of what im talking about:
Old Dash:
New Dash:
New Dash part number (with japanese marking):
Circuit board in the little "additional" plastic box:
Fuel reading from digital dash "KM left in tank" (before swap)
Fuel gauge & Mileage reading (before swap)
Fuel reading from digital dash "KM left in tank" (AFTER swap (showing more left in tank))
Fuel gauge & Mileage reading (After swap - showing slightly more fuel left on analogue gauge than before, stacking up with digital reading)
I think i'll run with this dash, rather than swapping the module into my old dash - i dont care too much about the fact its in KM.
Thanks all - hopefully this might help some people, or just make interesting reading to others.
It's simple enough to just swap the rear cover and loom from the replacement to your old cluster, that's what Nissan did for the recall.. The odometer info is held in a chip on the cluster circuit board so will reflect the mileage of the vehicle it came from. You can have this altered by a specialist if you need to.OK people, from this thread, I managed to source a dash with what i suspected had the fuel gauge work done. (Not cheap but worth it i feel - yes, it was a bit of a risk just in case it didnt turn out well for me) - theres are lots out there, but a lot of the time the wiring loom is missing or has been chopped off.
I have fitted it, like for like swap.
One thing i didnt think about before doing this, is that the "new" replacement dash (with the fuel gauge recall work), is in KM - which i dont mind too much, previous had been converted into miles.
So Interestingly, my old dash was showing 105,775 miles. New dash is showing 175,5548 km - google conversion, shows that equates to 109,080 miles - so this replacement has added 3,305 miles to my car.
More interestingly concerns the fuel gauges. So the digital fuel screen BEFORE showed i had 198Km left in the tank to go. After fitting the replacement dash, it shows i have 257km left in the tank (hopefully more accurate and this is possibly the crux of the issue if you dont have the work done) - 60km inaccuracy approx
Here are some photos of what im talking about:
Old Dash:
New Dash:
New Dash part number (with japanese marking):
Circuit board in the little "additional" plastic box:
Fuel reading from digital dash "KM left in tank" (before swap)
Fuel gauge & Mileage reading (before swap)
Fuel reading from digital dash "KM left in tank" (AFTER swap (showing more left in tank))
Fuel gauge & Mileage reading (After swap - showing slightly more fuel left on analogue gauge than before, stacking up with digital reading)
I think i'll run with this dash, rather than swapping the module into my old dash - i dont care too much about the fact its in KM.
Thanks all - hopefully this might help some people, or just make interesting reading to others.
@Reverend RobP can you pls clarify what you mean? surely converting a dash to MPH does change the odometer, because in mileage my original dash (converted to mph) reads 105,775 - but this figure in KM before being converted was surely much was higher than this, when in KM when it was imported
What I mean is. If it was imported with 100,000km on the clock and converted to miles on import and now reads 105,000 what you have is 100,000km and 5,000 miles. The odometer reads 105,000 but its a mix of the two. The chip just converts what it reads on the speedo and starts counting in miles. Very unlikely that the importer converted the odometer and calculate the exact amount of miles the car had covered
thanks @Reverend RobP - that sort of makes sense to a point, but in this instance, the car was imported in 2021 with 137,272Km on the clock, but as you can see from my BEFORE picture, the odometer showed 105,775 - so i assumed that was miles, as the conversion calculation would make sense. If I went by your example, it would mean my odometer should be showing MORE than 137,272, and not less