This will take about ½ an hour, a Phillips head screwdriver, side cutters and a little patience. You will even be able to correct the over-reading speedo while you’re at it.
1 Drop the steering wheel down.
2 There is one Phillips head retainer that holds the dash surround. Half a turn anti-clockwise will have it pop out, then pull it out of the dash.
3 Pull out the dash surround.
4 Remove the 3 Phillips head screws that hold the dash in place.
5 Pull dash out and disconnect the multi-pin wiring connector.
6 TAKE NOTE OF EXACTLY WHERE your dash needles are sitting in their rest position as you will be popping them off their shafts soon.
7 Remove the white backing plate on the backside of the dash.
8 Unclip the front clear screen and black thingo that it clips to as one piece from off the main white body. You should be left with the dash needles exposed.
9 You can rotate the needles around by hand and as you move them back to the rest position you will feel them hit a stopper. When it comes time to put the needles back on, you need to make sure the shafts are in the rest position before popping the needles back on in their original position.
10 Using something to carefully slide under one side of the needle, support the other side with your fingers and using even pressure, slowly pry the needle off its shaft. It will pop off quite easily if you are careful and apply even force.
11 Once the needles are off, remove the lexan dash label and then pop the PCB off the white housing but be careful as you will have to carefully pry the PCB up from the Odometer LCD – see picture to see what I mean as it mounts through the white housing. It ends up just sitting there once the PCB has been carefully removed.
12 Find the hole where the CRUISE LED is and trim out enough plastic to allow the aftermarket Cruise LED to be put in so that when the PCB is clipped back in, it is held in place but not squashed – see pics.
13 Clip the PCB and the lexan label back on.
14 As you put the needles back on above where they would normally rest. Have the needle sitting on the shaft and with a little pressure on it, slowly rotate the needle around to its rest position. What you are doing is ensuring that when you finally push the needle all the way on, that the shaft is actually in its rest position.
15 Now’s the time to fix the over-reading speedo if you want. Push it on below where it used to sit. If it was reading 5kmh over, then pop the needle back on at approx 5kmh below the 0kmh mark. I did this to mine and went out with the GPS and found it to be very accurate at all speeds above 40kmh – better than what it used to be!
16 Put it all back together and you’re done. I’ve probably made it sound harder than what it is, but it’s really very easy.
