Just got your kit yesterday and installed it right now man I'm in love now all I need is the climate control and other buttons and I'm set

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! You can change your switches by putting in 12v 3.5mm LED bulbs but it’s MUCH easier to just get red switches from a 99+ Cabrio.

Great content, new subscriber. Keep up the solid work! Ordered up a red filter set on eBay just now after watching this video. Been looking for a filter for the lcd screens for about a year now. Thanks!

@LucidAutowerks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your purchase! I'll get them out for you ASAP.

great info ..good video thanks

Definitely doing this to my GLX. Great video, man!

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, glad it helped you out! I think you might be local to me. I've seen your name in the local fb group. You bought John's white Jetta, right?

@KeepitReel2023

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks yes, sir! She's currently down right now. Input shaft bearing in the trans gave out. Waiting for the clutch and timing chains to come in so I knock it all out at once. Once that's done, I'll be ordering your kit in purple for the cluster.

@NeverMetTheGuy

4 жыл бұрын

Hehehe VW life.

Great Stuffs Thanks

Had to peep the channel. Great content. New subscriber! Damn that 2 door Golf crush kind of killed me a little I won't lie lol.

@LucidAutowerks

6 жыл бұрын

Mind Flowers haha. That car was rusty in places I’ve never even seen rust before. Fortunately its parts will live on in other Mk3s

@mindflowers1792

6 жыл бұрын

Lucid Autowerks that is always a good thing when the parts get to live indeed

VERY PRO VIDEO THANKS A LOT YOU ARE AWESOME BRO !!!

Thank you man u really helped me

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped you out.

Thanks!

I'm gonna do this with my black faced orange needle cluster in red ;)

Blue led lighting can be had on a vr6 or tdi mk3 by using the lighting bits from a mk3.5 cabrio cluster; And of course if you have a 2.0 you can simply use the whole cluster

@oliverjantz1108

3 жыл бұрын

Great vid btw!!!!

Thank you for a great video. This is very helpful. What pins will do I connect to energize the speedo, and tach so I can clock the needles.

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a little harder than that. The speedo and tach work off of a square wave signal. I’m going to build a bench tester someday. Easiest way to test them is in a working vehicle.

I'm running light bars today, and had the cluster in my hands thinking about doing this... I'm torn between blue or red. Oh! Thanks for reminding me! I think the head unit can switch back to red!

@NeverMetTheGuy

4 жыл бұрын

Ordered.

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks man! I'll get them out for you ASAP!

@NeverMetTheGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks - Since we can't gif on KZread, just imagine the mailman from Rick and Morty saying "Ma' man!"

@NeverMetTheGuy

4 жыл бұрын

If you haven't already, please hit up my email about the other derlin bushings; I should have mentioned it in the notes section.

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

@@NeverMetTheGuy I don't have an email address with your order. Reach out to me at lucidautowerks@gmail.com if you can. I saw the note about the bushings. Your other stuff is ready to ship

So I put an automatic silver 2.0 cluster in my Manual TDI and i believe that the rpms are actually accurate, even though the gauge faces are different, also, do you offer white filters to diffuse the lighting or would just removing the filter all together work?

Can I fit a cluster from golf mk3 in mk2 dashboard without big job??

Hey I’m interested in this wondering if you could do a white color filter, would pay lil extra if necessary

Great video Lucid, very informative. Do you have any schematic to bench test the dash out before installation? Would love to test before re-installing.

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

deezjet hey I saw your email and sent you a picture of the harness pinout 👍🏼

oooooh nice nice nice nice nice wonder if i can use 12V rgbw led and have the hue change from red to blue using tach sensor. ooooh UV LED even better

Hi, good video i have a question.. What is the name for material colors??

like blue

if i change the bulbs for some colored ones, do i then need to take out the filter? Or if i leave it as orginal in, is the color then going to get shitty? Thanks for the vid

Could you do a video replacing all the bulbs with LEDs? I found a thread on vortex and tried the LEDs mentioned but they were too long to fit in the cluster, pretty puzzled at this point.

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't found any plug-and-play LED bulbs just yet

Hi bud I followed the vid but know the lcd display is messed up and not showing anything. Any idea how to fix

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

Did you do any soldering at all when you were in there? Is there any chance that the LCD screens got flipped or mixed up? You should at least see something but it would be jumbled. Possibly the little wire/rubber strips that connect the screen to the board are not installed correctly?

Great video bro!! I have a cuestion, do you now how to chance the display color??, I refer to numbers chage black to another color. Thank you.

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

No, sorry. I know that if you remove the polarizing film from the LCD and put it on upside down (or use new polarizing film) that the background will be black and the numbers will be the color of the filter.

@jesusmanuelperezhernandez4229

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks okay bro, thank you very much.

Awesome work man! How did you wire up the test harness?

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! There is a pinout of the cluster harness in the Bentley manual. Not in the back by the wiring diagrams. I believe it’s in the “dash” section.

This is fantastic! Thank you! And hey, do you have a video of how to reverse the polarity of the time and odometer displays? (Or quick description?)

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’ve read about it, but never done it. Basically you use a razor to lift the polarizing filter from your LCD screen and flip it over. Since they can get damaged when removing, I think people used to take a polarizing filter from a VCR or a DVD player display and use that. Personally I would maybe buy some new polarizing filter material since it’s available online. Hope that helps!

@evangarciamusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks Solid info, thanks again!

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

No problem!

@LucidAutowerks

2 жыл бұрын

I got some of the correct material and I’ll have a video soon as well as I’ll be offering precut filters for switching the LCD polarity.

@evangarciamusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks That’s awesome! Due to my interest in this, I actually did it myself. Bought some polarizing film, rotated it to an angle where the reverse polarization was correct, then cut out two rectangular pieces. It works super well! But hey having that as an offered product as well as a video would be pretty sweet for sure

Hey also do you know how to reprogram mileage? I'm picking up the mk3.5 Cabrio cluster for my Cabrio and from what I know the cluster saves mileage not ECU

@LucidAutowerks

6 жыл бұрын

Mind Flowers I don’t actually. Look up Matt Litke from Clusters by Litke. He runs the BurnalltheMk4s Facebook group. I know he does it, but I’m not sure if he’s located in the US. He may be able to point you in the right direction. There are also some ebay sellers that offer the service.

Why are the us spec and uk spec different ?

Any more info on how you made the custom wall harness for testing?

@LucidAutowerks

5 жыл бұрын

You can find the pinout for the cluster harness in the Bentley manual. I wired it to a 12v wall adapter I had lying around.

@Ajcr5050

5 жыл бұрын

I got all that already figured out, just mostly wondering how you actually wired it together. Having the wall harness would be super helpful so I don’t have to constantly run out to a car to test. Also with the fact my mk3 is in a million pieces right now and can’t actually test operation of any cluster atm lol 🤦🏻‍♂️

@LucidAutowerks

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ajcr5050 I'm not sure which pin wires I ran to positive and to ground I can check the Bentley for you. I can't tell just by looking at my connector.

Hi there. Is it possible to send it to Germany? As a letter shipment! What would it cost? With best regards.

Instead of swaping filters(for displays), can I use red LEDs, without filter?

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can. I had a hard time finding the right sized LED though. I know it’s been done before but I’m not sure where to get the LEDs. I checked superbrightleds.com and couldn’t find ones that fit. I even ordered some that looked similar but they didn’t work.

@pararera6394

4 жыл бұрын

Just one more question. Display for clock doesn't work as should. It shows digits but some segments(parts of the number) are missing. Display for mileage worked fine until few weeks ago. Now mileage display sometimes shows trip distance without "trip" and .X(X is some number) at the end of mileage. But later(I guess when interior heats up) it shows like it should. Do you know how to fix that problem? I got mine from this link. They work nice. www.ebay.com/itm/10Pcs-T5-B8-5d-5050-1smd-Car-Red-LED-Dashboard-Dash-Gauge-Instrument-Light-Bulbs/312533088700?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Very cool, are these filters still for sale on ebay?

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir 👍🏼

how did you bench test this?I have one that I want to sell but don't know how to check milage oranythiung and can't find anything on line how to do it haha

@LucidAutowerks

Ай бұрын

If you have a Bentley manual, the cluster harness pinout is in there. You need to cut up a cluster harness and add power and ground to a few wires.

@RippinLyons

Ай бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks Thank you! I actually ended up figuring it out, I just needed to connect another ground!

what if I just remove the filter and put led color bulb in ?

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

You can do that too. I had a hard time finding an LED that worked when I looked a few years ago.

can i just leave th efilters out to make it white? (for the lcd's)

@LucidAutowerks

3 ай бұрын

Yes but it’ll be a slightly yellowish light since the bulbs are incandescent. It’s not bad but it’s not a pure white. It’s kinda like a soft white lightbulb in your house.

@LucidAutowerks

3 ай бұрын

Actually that’s with just the overheads. The LCDs end up with a little orangeish tint if I remember correctly.

Hey do you have white color to

@LucidAutowerks

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don’t. The closest you can get to white is to remove the filters completely but it’s still slightly off-white because of the incandescent bulbs that are used. It’s close to white, though. For actual white you would need to switch the bulbs out for white LEDs. I’m still searching for LED bulbs that are plug and play.

My one keep on display error message on the mileage side is there any thing I can do to sort it out thanks

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

That problem is something that I don't know how to repair. I suggest that you contact Matt Litke at Clusters by Litke. He is extremely knowledgable and can point you in the right direction. facebook.com/ClustersbyLitke/

@azimmusthapha365

3 жыл бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks Thank you for input

Do you have a filter made for the shifter portion on the gauge for automatic cars?

@LucidAutowerks

Ай бұрын

I have red ones with the shift indicator filter here - lucidautowerks.com/products/vw-mk3-instrument-cluster-speedometer-filters?variant=21934620442704

@JessePacheco-dt5ru

Ай бұрын

@LucidAutowerks do you have photos how the cluster looks after filter color change? And are there other changes necessary if I have the black background cluster vs the white?

@LucidAutowerks

Ай бұрын

@@JessePacheco-dt5ru I have some pics on my computer. Send me an email at info@lucidautowerks.com

strange, i have a automatic but i don't have the PRND lights.

@dragosandrei5214

4 жыл бұрын

Me 2. Why îs that?

@nataliehanson5936

4 жыл бұрын

I think it might be to what region your in

new follewer good vid buddy.. 2 door in the intro is sad to watch

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing! That red GTI was one of the rustiest I've ever had. I got a lot of good parts from it though so it was a good donor. I dragged it out of someones backyard where it was sitting for years.

i have busted bulbs in my cluster, what type are those bulbs?

@LucidAutowerks

4 жыл бұрын

I'm actually not sure and I can't seem to find the info. I'll keep looking though.

@user-qm1ri7fg7h

6 ай бұрын

They are, t5 b8.5d bulbs

Will an automatic cluster work with a manual car? Will the mileage be off?

@LucidAutowerks

3 жыл бұрын

It will work fine. The only difference is that the gear selector screen on the auto cluster will show all of the PRND21 lit up. The only difference between clusters is when you put a VR6 cluster into a 2.0 the RPM will be off. The total mileage for the odometer is stored in the cluster so no matter what cluster you install it will show the mileage from the previous vehicle 👍🏼

@edgarastorga582

3 жыл бұрын

@@LucidAutowerks Thanks, I have a 2002 Cabrio with a manual transmission. The lights will not light up anymore when the headlight are on and the temperature gauge sometimes works.

CAN I INSTALL LED LIGHT IN MY 97 GOLF MK3 MOD DERSBOR FILTER COOLER LIGHT ????

@LucidAutowerks

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t found an LED bulb that fits. I use parts from Mk3.5 Cabrios for the blue LEDs.