I did a upgrade on cluster and it was the best thing I did. You will love how they look once you change it. Makes it look more modern but still have the cool sport car feel
Inspired again! I built another 335i cluster with the RPM rolling warning zone feature then lost my nerve fitting it. I now know exactly what to fettle to install it with out fragging anything expensive! Great content as usual 👍🏻
Great job bro! Greatings from Greece! In my case i was lucky enough to buy from ebay Canada a used OEM 335is cluster (with km/h dials) and i straight away replaced the two faces without having to unglue anything! However the needle correction was a pain in the ass😂 totally worth it though... I just regret that i didnt go with the red needles (e46 M3 style) but i wont mess with the needles again! Keep up the good content!
Awesome job man.. I imagine this opens the door to the new trans swap.. nothing more scary and frustrating trying to code and write modules.. will be good to see it all come together with the new trans and everything else you may be planning 😊🤘
Chips generally have a dot/nub on them or the board to denote pin 1. Align your chip clamp (should also be marked) so you don't put it on backwards. Looks like you lucked out this time. I've zapped my fair share of chips aligning clamps backwards.
Well i thought that was the case but didnt really think about it too much. On my test cluster yesterday, probably tried 100 times to get the R270 to read and it finally worked with the clip in this orientation, so i just did that again on the this cluster. Good info regardless so thank you.
@@ZeroTo60Tube well, it still hasn't been returned as yet. Was slated to be delivered back to me today but we are heading down to State of Origin..... Damn it! You are making massive inroads my man, well done.
The viginising is definitely not too bad once you get the programmer working. And if you arent running custom dial faces it would be a whole lot easier. Might try and get an M3 cluster in my car at some point. We'll see how we go.
@@Whiboi Well, I've seen several individuals do it on RU-vid now, so I think it's possible. Apparently, a little shaving of the lower two corners on the E9x cluster and it goes in without too much trouble.
I don't, well i do think so, i just can't hold anything still and shake all the time...... Its only really a problem for fine work like soldering or holding full cups of coffee that arent in travel mugs haha.
As far as I know, the M3 cluster never fully works with the 335i. Don't get me wrong, it is just the shift light LEDs on the tach bezel that don't ever work despite coding because of the data available to the clusters pulled from the DMEs of the different engines. It would bug me to have those seven blank, non-functioning LED cutouts in there so want to give a heads up on that. The most useful workaround I found (through Bill at Clusters and Coding on fb) was to do some coding on the cluster and change the subdial face on the tach. Same place the cruise control setpoint marker is on the speedo side, that's what I'm talking about on the tach side. Bill installed a two color redline on mine, yellow before red and then programmed the cluster to use water temps to display a variable redline of sorts as visual reminder to take it easy as the car comes up to temp. When you first start the car, the redline is at 4k, then gradually recedes as the water temps rise. Also, if you do the white LEDs for backlighting I highly recommend researching the light output of the various SMD LEDs out there because mine were so bright, I had to find some static cling style window tint film and apply that to the clear plastic so it didn't scorch my retinas at night. There's a coding option to have the cluster backlighting on all the time and just did that on mine too. Can't tell this early in the morning here if you're kidding or not about the Parkinson's but dad's got it too if so. Yeah, you've mentioned it 3x now. Not kidding, then. -- Work looks good!
Firstly i should address my dark humour. I don't have parkinsons and probably shouldnt joke about it. But on the flip side i genuinely shake like do. Always have, its bloody annoying when trying to solder or even hold a cup of coffee. Anyway, you are spot on about the M3 clusters and shift lights. I did see one guy that used an aftermarket shift light circuit board and wired that in to the LEDs on the M3 cluster to get them working. Not sure if im that keen. I'll probably just get a manual M3 cluster and use that. In the mean time, i am more keen to get the LEDs in this one changed to white.
@@ZeroTo60Tube no worries and usually dark recognizes dark but it was SO dry and off the cuff it flew over my head. I accept responsibility in this situation. Don't want the domestication of a wild youtuber to occur on my account! If those sly, dry mentions went by the wayside the channel would lose a little character and begin to fade into the background. Words are just words and I'm a grownup... mostly.
@@ZeroTo60Tube thanks for the reply. Just watched your other videos on it . Wondering did you need to solder the vvdi cas pins onto the cas or just slip the pins in ? Trying to find a way to program cas3 without soldering as my soldering skills suck
@@ZPDrift if you can get a fully set up with winkfp and the full BMW standard tools sweet you can recover a bricked cas. With out that you really should solder
To be honest i think you can. However by using NCS to flash the cluster it ensures the cluster is properly coded to the car fully. Otherwise you can encounter errors due to the new cluster looking for features in the car that are not there.
Thank you for sharing! When you changed the VIN in the video, you changed 8 Hex values to FF and the VIN is 7. Is that correct? last digit after the 7 digit VIN was 3B which translates to a semicolon?
I love your videos and ordered a r270 a couple weeks ago to try do the same. Can you please show what you had to modify on the r270 to get working properly? Thanks
On this one, the trick was removing the yellow resistor on the sub board. But there are so many different versions of R270. Its worth reading now about what you may need to do so when yours arrived you know what you will be looking for. There are about 5 or 6 different resistors that may need to be removed or changed commonly, as well as a capacitor a lot of people say needs replacing.
Hello. I was watching your videos with the great interest. That's really good job. So, I want to ask few questions about the work and r270. •is there a right direction to fix the test clip on the eeprom, or is it not matter? •Which pins of the test clip's board you soldered on the r270's eeprom adapter board? Did you solder all of U2 pins on the both sides of the adapter board? Could you show us some more details for adding a test clip to r270? •During deleting vin, I have seen that you've changed last 8 numbers of the hex line. However I had seen someone deleted the last 7 numbers only. Is it matter deleting the last 7 or 8 numbers of the line? Thanks.
Basically the same to get the cluster working in the car. But you shouldnt need to recalibrate the speedo on the M3 cluster. Which is what caught me out today.
Hey man, not sure if you still read these comments, but wondering if you help another RU-vidr out: would you happen to know if there's a tool/program with which you can 'test-drive' a black panel cluster gauge? (for the facelift F-series BMW's)? I have a black panel cluster gauge for the BMW M2 LCI, all virginized, but the km/h reading is a bit off. Look forward to your reply, thanks in advance man!
Hey Man, yeah i still check on the comments...... still cant wait to bring the channel back after all the raid stuff is finished. However, unfortunately, i have not done anything with a F series, so i dont know where to suggest.
So if I have a newer style cluster and I want to put the older style that has the 120f to 300f oil temp readout do I need to read and save the data from the newer cluster that’s coming out and write it to the cluster going in? Edit never mind it seems like I need to Virginize the cluster and program with nsc expert
Youve given me hope! I'm a Gold Coast local, do you have any recommendations for someone who can help program my e9x 335? Been having DME issues as well and its giving me hell
Hi Blake, shoot me an email zeroto60tube@gmail.com, let me know what sort of programming you are trying to do or what you are trying to fix and i should know someone down your way.
The data is in the cas module and the cluster. The cluster feeds off the cas, so cluster will always update to whatever the cas module has stored. But the second you connect a cas to a cluster and the milage is different you will get a tamper dot, before the cluster adjusts up. Oh also if you put a cluster in that is higher than the cas module, it wont adjust down you will just get a tamper dot.
hi andrew why don't you use an ID4 motion digital cluster?would it be easier and better for your transmission swap vehicle virals has a video on his channel about it he might be able to give you some insight on your transmission conversion problems cheers glenn
Im not sold on them yet. They are quite a lot of money for something that doesnt do anything more than an analogue cluster. If you could integrate boost gauges or some of the data we use for MHD JB4 gauges or even a sat nav in to the cluster it would justify its price. But as it sits, thats a lot of money for purely a cosmetic change.
Coming in tomorrows video, also wanted to show what i had to modify on the tool to get it to work. As for the PSU i my bro in law made that, might see what i can find out about it.
@@ZeroTo60Tube nope it’s all evenly spaced to 280kph. I’ve never seen a cluster like that. My friends US spec car ends at 160mph/260kph and my Canadian spec car ends at 280kph
It will be close 😉 As an IS owner, I can tell you that a lot of fellow 335i guys don’t realize all of the things that come in the package. We get extra oil and trans coolers, as well as M-Sport brakes and suspension package. Also get the added aero bits, some badges, and M door sills. Let’s not forget factory launch control, although this is basically useless out of the box with open diff, and 5k rpm launch setting.
@@Saif0412 For sure. The IS is a glorified package tbh. It’s a great car, but the factory suspension is practically abusive to the spine, and when combined with the run flats it came with, it was unbearable. The exclusion of an LSD can be considered a criminal oversight on a car with such potential. I think BMW didn’t want it to outshine the E92 M3.
@@PtcjNoble It’s a funny thing, in some way similar to taking a picture with one of your favorite race car drivers, pro athlete, or anyone your a fan of. Maybe 30 years from now I’d show my kids the photo and it would be cool, or maybe my kid gets a N54 car from some yard in Australia, finds this content and sees I was “here”. This is the only channel that I actually await new vids from, so in a way they have created a “space” where we share in their activities. Within that space, if it had walls, “first”ing would be like having a favorite seat or writing your name on the wall; it will be there till the lights go out. I hadn’t considered it till you brought it up. Now I’m probably first to give this type of explanation for the “first” thing, lol.
