After a flat battery episode and recharge, my odometer read EEP_1 instead of mileage, the rev counter, fuel gauge, and temperature gauge all stopped working. Only the speedo worked and not even very accurately. If it was a very warm day or after a run it would revert to normal on restart, but lately it has stopped even doing that.
A lot of Googling and searching yielded very little information so I bought a second hand cluster from a breaker in Scotland through Ebay. The vendor had no idea of the mileage reading (mine was 44,900) but I was so cheesed off with the problem that I decided that inaccurate miles was a small price to pay. I have MoT certificates and the invoice for the cluster anyway.
The upshot is that my original cluster or the replacement cluster will work properly only with the replacement cluster's coding plug, and neither works with my original coding plug. Both clusters show the replacement cluster's mileage (circa 80k higher). I could read the odometer on the faulty cluster because it would appear very briefly before EEP_1 appeared but now even that shows the higher mileage.
The display also shows the tamper dot in either case.
I now have a working cluster with apparently accurate (+/- 3mph) speedo, but with eighty thousand too many miles showing and a tamper dot. I dare not go through the synch procedure to reconcile the mileage because that will reportedly log the higher figure in the cars hidden record - if it's not already there too!
I am happy, though, because I have no intention of selling and a serious buyer should believe the MoT record and note the receipt for the s/h cluster.
I had a word with Phil at CPC to see whether it's possible to rectify the incorrect mileage using his computer but he is not equipped to do it. He recommends a mileage 'correction' service with specialist E36 knowledge.
A lot of Googling and searching yielded very little information so I bought a second hand cluster from a breaker in Scotland through Ebay. The vendor had no idea of the mileage reading (mine was 44,900) but I was so cheesed off with the problem that I decided that inaccurate miles was a small price to pay. I have MoT certificates and the invoice for the cluster anyway.
The upshot is that my original cluster or the replacement cluster will work properly only with the replacement cluster's coding plug, and neither works with my original coding plug. Both clusters show the replacement cluster's mileage (circa 80k higher). I could read the odometer on the faulty cluster because it would appear very briefly before EEP_1 appeared but now even that shows the higher mileage.
I now have a working cluster with apparently accurate (+/- 3mph) speedo, but with eighty thousand too many miles showing and a tamper dot. I dare not go through the synch procedure to reconcile the mileage because that will reportedly log the higher figure in the cars hidden record - if it's not already there too!
I am happy, though, because I have no intention of selling and a serious buyer should believe the MoT record and note the receipt for the s/h cluster.
I had a word with Phil at CPC to see whether it's possible to rectify the incorrect mileage using his computer but he is not equipped to do it. He recommends a mileage 'correction' service with specialist E36 knowledge.
