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Firstly, thanks to Scott for a few pointers (as usual).

It really is pretty simple - the hardest part for me was putting it back togather! :blush:

1. remove the 4 screws from under the wheel/dash

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2. The and bottom plastic cover can be detached. The just pop off.

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3. remove the right stalk by pressing in the clip (there's a corresponding one on the bottom of the stalk as wel)

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4. remove the left stalk. Same deal as the right stalk except you need to unclip a wire harness. Use a flat blade screwdriver to press down the clip to undo the harness.

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5. undo the bolts which hold the instrument cluster to the dash. There are 4 bolts - two front and two back. Funny thing was I was missing a bolt - which is not surprising and confirms

that our cars (and most imports) are f**ked with either here or in Australia. Someone must've changed the dash and forgot a bolt :angry:

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6. Take the plastic cover off the ignition barrel. remove the two large harnesses which connects the instrument cluster to the car on the back. The whole dash/cluster should come out now.

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7. There are 4 screws (two front, two back) which needs to be undone; then undo the clips (there's a few of them) and the cluster should seperate from the dash.

put in your nismo cluster (or if your a dodgy prick...another car's cluster :whistling:)

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Then reverse the steps above to fit it all back.

Hope it helps!

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Nice write up. Pictures really are worth a thousand words! Even though I have no immediate requirement to remove the instrument cluster, at least I know how. Thanks :thumbsup:

Thanks for that Jethro. I'm guessing my car will have all the bolts as it came here with 100,000 on the clock- unlike the 57,000 that most of them have (they must have a reflashing tool with the same k's on it over there!).

On that, are the k's determined by the dash- so now you have the k's from the nismo dash rather than your car?

Oh, and someone needs to cut their nails, talon-boy :rolleyes:

Thanks for that Jethro. I'm guessing my car will have all the bolts as it came here with 100,000 on the clock- unlike the 57,000 that most of them have (they must have a reflashing tool with the same k's on it over there!).

On that, are the k's determined by the dash- so now you have the k's from the nismo dash rather than your car?

Oh, and someone needs to cut their nails, talon-boy :rolleyes:

LOL...

The K's are stored in the dash...yes now I've gained 50k km on my car...

not that I care...not selling it anytime soon (the car that is)

Good idea. I wound the clock back on mine about 14k when I put the new dash in, but I'm thinking if I keep the original it should be ok when I sell it, as I can show them k's on both if necessary.

The car does look its age though, doesn't look thrashed, so I'm sure it's fine. Just need to recover the steering wheel.

  • 1 year later...

so i had some time to try replace my stock cluster with my nismo one... this guide was helping perfectly until i had to remove the ignition and surrounding plastic from the stock cluster underneath.

the bottom and side clips seem to come off easy but for all my trying the top clips will not come loose. I have stopped for now through fear of breaking something...

Did others have any issues with this step at all? I'm at a complete loss at what to do now...

Cheers

  • 7 months later...

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