Is it ok to unplug the guage cluster?
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From: Waldorf MD
Car Info: 06 BLUE STI
No, I have done it 4 times. Just don't start the car and drvie it cause the miliage will be off. That makes it a lot harder to know when to do oil changes and things like that unless you keep track of it yourself. I even got another cluster from a guy that had a WRX and his milage showed up in my car. I hade 19,000 miles, his had just over 15,000. Don't jack with the needles though. Car is off by 6 mph.
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good to konw. do you know how to undo each plug. i was able to get the left one undone, but i couldn't get the stupid center one, i don't even know how it works. there are buttons that you push and then it pops out, but that plug feels super weaks 
. anyway, i didn't even get around to trying the far right one. i need to use my car in about 15 minutes so i put it all back together. anyway, why have you undone yours so many times, if there is anyting cool want to post a pic? I am trying, or i guess am going to try to make my gauges blue. i picked up some LED's from fry's electronics and i have no idea if they are the right ones or not because i wans't able to get to the back of my cluster.
by the way, once you get the entire thing out, do you have to take anything off the back of the cluster to get to the lighting stuff? or is it pretty straigh forward, just easy to get to plug and play?
. anyway, i didn't even get around to trying the far right one. i need to use my car in about 15 minutes so i put it all back together. anyway, why have you undone yours so many times, if there is anyting cool want to post a pic? I am trying, or i guess am going to try to make my gauges blue. i picked up some LED's from fry's electronics and i have no idea if they are the right ones or not because i wans't able to get to the back of my cluster. by the way, once you get the entire thing out, do you have to take anything off the back of the cluster to get to the lighting stuff? or is it pretty straigh forward, just easy to get to plug and play?
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 282
From: Waldorf MD
Car Info: 06 BLUE STI
The center is hard to take off cause of the angle. But it comes off just like the other two. It is plug and play basically. I have taken mine off cause I was gonna put custom gauges on it and I took it in the house to work on it cause it was cold outside. But my dumbass removed the needles. You are supposed to carfully put them on top of the old ones. And if you want go in the back and remove the green blub condoms. It is simple twist and pull out. I had to recalibrate them by hand and I got them as low as 6mph off.
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