Lerroy's 2014 JDM VMG (NZ)

lerroy said:

No problems here to help where I can. I feel you, hated the chrome look.

its a bit of a pain to remove honestly and i dont have better photos sorry but...

You have to remove all the plastic trim from the boot door inside.
Unplug the cables for the number plate light and reverse camera
Then there are 4 nuts circled in red that you need to remove see image below
now you can remove the whole piece that circled in blue, its pretty tight and a pain as its secured with pop clips.

once that piece is off the car you should be able to work out how to remove the chrome.

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lucavolta said:

Do you remember if the speed unit (mph or kph) change when you swap the cluster? It's the same as the unit on the MFD that change when you plug in?

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lerroy said:

I took car on the track last week, they have a 'breakfast and laps' event here every month $50 at highlands track Cromwell. It is billed as a "tour of the track" but we got up to around 160+kmh, got to really test the car for 2 laps. Super happy with how she handled and kept up with some quicker cars. I did try to film but my camera mount failed me, vibrated the power button and turned off .
I will defiantly go again so stay tuned.

After doing the swaybar and seeing the dirty looking exhaust, felt I could make it look a bit better, grabbed some cleaning products and polishes and used 000 mesh. Was pretty hard work, but came up pretty nice. Really want to do mid pipe but PITA to get to with just jack stands, one day.

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Now gotta do the right side

Scored a Levorg STI speedo from Be-forward that had 1500km more than my current milage, had a scratch on the plastic cover so negotiated with seller and got a little bit off. I just swapped my current cover with the the STI one and no scratch

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Have been waiting to install when milage became close or even exactly the same. I caved and installed today, was a few hundred km more, but close enough.

Bit of an indulgence, the only difference is the blue lights are now red and it has a glowing STI log on the Rev gauge. I was kind of hoping for a different animation or welcome screen but same as the GTS.

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My interior now is all matchy red, will put a night photo up when I get a chance.

Probably should have just saved on all these parts and got an STI but fun researching / installing parts

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Robsyuk said:

I'm after the aus sti ones as they are in mph. Are they a straight fit or will I need to code them?

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lerroy said:

Do you mean after "a US" sti one ?
the AUS from Australia ones are in kmph

Should be a straight swap is USA,
If the gauges are like for like kmph to kmph, mph to mph its plug and play. I think you would have some issues with gong from kmph to mph.

The only thing that is stored in the guage is milage.

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lerroy said:

Ok got it all sorted

the spliced wires that were confusing me were the JDM toll reader thingo, i removed all all good

I still couldn't get the 5 pin connection to fit into the idoing unit well, seemed to bend pins
instead i just choped the oem headunits plug and spliced the idoing camera input into 12+/Ground and used the RCA

still wouldn't switch when reverse was selected so identified and additional (i think) 6 pin plug with pink/green and purple wires
quick search on google said these were CAN wires and purple was reverse, i tested with voltmeter and worked. I spliced into idoing head unit Brown and black wire labelled "BACK" and now shows camera when reverse selected

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stock loom left, chopped oem headunit plug that i tapped into

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I doing camera connector spliced into oem plug for camera

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Purple reverse wire tapped into idoing brown wire for Back or reverse trigger

Only problem is better screen shows the camera is not great quality, wonder if easy swap to upgraded model ?

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These are my stock DAB antenna connectors anyone have a way i can utilise them ?

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lerroy said:

Hey @lucavolta

Sure is, exact same connections and easy swap. GTS / VM4 (1.6) and STI all the same
Mine was from Japan so just had to change the language
keep in mine the milage is stored in the cluster

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David1972 said:

how do you change the language on the cluster please?

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