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hey, i have an 04 vp. its cluster just has the speedo, temp, gas gauges, so i bought a new cluster with a tach. but after i bought it, i realized it was for an auto, and i have a manual. will it still work? what should i do?

 
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Yup
You just have the AT indicator there.

 
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If i recall, the rpm might not read correctly. Search on this, i think it was something like that, or PM gearbox

 
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it reads fine with swap, thats only an issue when using the wrong indiglo gauge overlay.

 
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sorry, this sounds kinda foolish, but what is an indiglo gauge overlay and how will it mess up the readings? but i should be fine and dont need to return it?

 
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for the 01-02 style gauges they have white face covers that glow blue/green that you put on top of your existing cluster. if you get the wrong one the rpm wont read right cause the scale is different for auto and manual. if you are swapping whole clusters, there is no problem, they both use the same rpm wire.

now also there are two style of cluster. old style is 01-02 lx/ex and 01-05 dx/vp. the new style is LED lit and has the white numbers and blue/red rings for 03-05 lx/ex. now you can swap old with old but if you swap new and old you have to rewire the pins. so if you got the older style with tach for 01-02 lx/ex it will plug right in. any pics? also changing the cluster will change the mileage to what is on the new cluster.

 
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as usual well said gearbox

 
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I thought 01 to 03 were the same, 04,05 were the new?

 
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nope 03 is the year the new cluster started. 01-05 dx/vp all use the old style. here is 03 EX panel

 
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Mind telling me where did u buy a new cluster from and how much ???

 
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Get them on ebay

 
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another good source is --> www.car-part.com

 
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i have an EX cluster for sale. Its the red coupe one and i also have a custom harness that you can connect with each cluster without repinning. Basically i have done the hard work!!!

Look for it in the Canadian FS forums!!

 
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well i must have an old style right now, cuz ive got an 04 vp and i bought an 01-02 lx gauge cluster. so there should be very few to no problems right. and the clusters milage is only a few miles off of mine, so its perfect. thanks for the help.

 
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hey, i just got the cluster today. it should be installed and everything by friday at the latest. i post some pics of the install.

 
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its all installed now. it took about ten minutes to complete. i just plugged in the blue and green plugs into the new cluster and screwed it in. everything works perfect, it has no problems, at least not so far.

 
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i bought it off of ebay for $85 and shipping was $15.

 
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I got the $10 one with 15 shipping,still gotta try it ? Hope this week

 
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hey guys, after driving the car around for a while, i realized my radio doesnt work. it says that i need to enter the anti theft code. wtf is this. what do i do.

 
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did you disconnect the battery during the install??

 
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yeah, i disconnected it before i installed the cluster and then conncted it back up afterwards. everything but the radio will work now. the cd player screen just says "ErrE". has anyone had this problem before? does anyone know what i can do that doesnt involve taking it to the dealership?

 
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Look for a white sticker in the glovebox (side panel) with a 5 digit code.

If you tried entering #s you may need to leave radio on for a while (locked) to get another attempt at entering code.

 
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thanks ill try that. but when it first happened, i entered one too many codes trying to figure it out. i know, dumb. but if i just leave it on, it will eventually let me enter the code that should be in the glove box?

 
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or you could just disconnect the battery again and get some more tries. If all else fails you can give the radio serial number to honda and they should be able to get you your code. There is also way to get the radio to display the code with a certain combo of button pushing but I cant remember which ones. do a search see if it is on here somewhere

 
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youre prolly gonna have to take the radio out to look at the serial so honda can look up the code. they shouldve given it to you when you bought the car. its a security anti-theft thing

 
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Sorry to correct you gearbox but u dont realy have to take out the stereo to get the code .. U press the 1 and 6 button on the preset radio options for 5 seconds and it gives the serial number .. the stealership guy will then take this serial number .. put it on his computer linked with some Honda NA site which gives him the code.

Oh andplease ... when u get to the delaership try asking the person who has a smile on his face and u think hes having a gud day... coz there is a chance that some pissed off beaten by his wife kinda worker might wanna charge u a $100 bucks for it ...
My 2 cents !!!``

 
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i found the white sticker and entered the number. it worked, everything works now. thanks.

 
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haha lol some security if you just press buttons to get the sn and then goto dealer to get code. wow i didnt know that. hmm i guess since those decks usually go for $20 nbody really cares enough.