Vag Tacho

[danphines]

i just bought one and im trying to change the mileage on a cluster i bought back down to mine. when i went to change it it did change it but not to the mileage i told it to change it to. anyone have experience with this?

[Seerlah]

I don't have any experience with Vag Tacho. But if you are trying to make the mileage go lower, it is not going to happen. There is a certain amount of miles (starting from 0) that it will lock. I think you can raise the mileage though. You just won't be permitted to lower it. You would need to get a new cluster and program that one ($$$), or one with lower miles and raise the number to what yours is (if you are permitted to raise it, which I am failrly confident you can).

[danphines]

you can both raise and lower. i finally figured it out you have to convert the miles to kilometers and input it as that and then it changes it for you. i bought an s4 cluster with 194,000 miles and i only have 132,000 miles and i wasnt about to gain that kind of mileage. after 2 hours of guess and check i got it to within 4 miles of what the car actually has. then i called it a day.

[Seerlah]

Wow, I was told different. Are you saying that you need to change the settings to kilometers, chnage the value in kilometers, then change the value back to miles and it works. I thought that it was a default on the clusters that you can not lower it after a set amount of miles (100-1000 miles)?

[Rhynolite]

you can both raise and lower. i finally figured it out you have to convert the miles to kilometers and input it as that and then it changes it for you. i bought an s4 cluster with 194,000 miles and i only have 132,000 miles and i wasnt about to gain that kind of mileage. after 2 hours of guess and check i got it to within 4 miles of what the car actually has. then i called it a day.

That's kind of disconcerting...

[danphines]

Wow, I was told different. Are you saying that you need to change the settings to kilometers, chnage the value in kilometers, then change the value back to miles and it works. I thought that it was a default on the clusters that you can not lower it after a set amount of miles (100-1000 miles)?

no no you just put the value in as kilometers and it automatically converts it into miles for you. it just took a while for me to figure it out. plus it rounds off the number to the nearest ten.