Gli cluster install into Cxi with genuine K's from your Cxi!

**Gio** · 12-01-2008 12:13 PM

Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!

Aim: To fit a Gli cluster (with taco) into a Cxi whilst using your own odometer and not the one that came with the Gli cluster.

Required: Phillips head skrewdriver, Gli cluster.

PLEASE NOTE: The speedo face is connected to the odometer. Just telling you as this may clear some questions up

There is also no rewinding used or needed at all

After a lot of research and a lot of help from ozhonda members i have found a way to get the genuine K's from your old cluster which is going out, to the new cluster which is going in. This would have been done before but i couldnt find a DIY so i have decided to do yet another DIY to repay OZHONDA and its memebers.

Step 1: Sit in the drivers seat facing the cluster which is in your dash. There are 2 skrews located in the top of the cluster's case (hard to explain lol). The arrows in the picture below point to the 2 skrews i am talking about. (This picture is from when i completed mine so its of the gli cluster not the cxi cluster).

Step 2: After removing the 2 skrews the casing around the cluster will come out, jiggle it bit by bit and the clips will become un clipped.

Step 3: After pulling the clusters casing out you will be able to see 4 skrews, 2 up the top of the cluster and 2 below the cluster. Undo all four of them.

Step 4: Pull out the cluster a little bit then undo the 3 connections, one up the top, one to the left and one down the bottom left.

Now you can pull apart the cluster. (Same process for both the gli and the cxi cluster)

Step 5: Take off the clear casing on the cluster by undoing the clips.

Step 6: Do the same to take off the black casing. The black plastic face with all of the warning signs should now just come off.

Step 7: Flip the cluster over and unskrew the 4 skrews on the back of the cluster that hold the odometer and speedo in.

Step 8: Remove the whole speedo (Speedo and odometer will be in one piece

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Step 9: Repeat steps 5, 6, 7 on the Gli cluster.

Step 10: Now replace the Gli's odometer and speedo with the one from your vehicle (The cxi speedo that u pulled out earlier). So your are now using the Gli cluster with your speedo and odometer.

Step 11: Now skrew your speedo with the odometer attached to it into the Gli cluster, via the 4 skrews in the back.

Step 12: Now put the Gli cluster with your speedo and odometer in it back together again by placing back on the black face with the warning lights on the cluster, then clip the black cover back on the cluster, now clip the clear cover back on the cluster. The Gli cluster (your new cluster) should now look the exact same as when you brought it, exept it will have your odometer and speedo in it.

Step 13: Re-connect the 3 plugs into the new cluster (Same plug holes). Push cluster back into the dash.

Step 14: Skrew back in the four skrews that hold the cluster to the car.

Step 15: Slowly slide the black cluster housing back into the dash.

Step 16: Skrew back in the 2 skrews to secure the black cluster housing.

Show your GF, mum, dad or who-ever, makes u feel smart

CHA CHING! Take it for a spin and make sure the odometer is ticking over and all the hazard lights work as well as headlights etc.

Chris.

EXTRA INFO (incase you get stuck) - Thanks to Neo_phase

Originally Posted by neo_phase

Just some additional info + pics to help others!

Once you've done the steps to detach the cluster as per Gio's instructions here, you'll need to remove the plastic covering the speedo as per the image below:

I've already removed the clear plastic on this picture but the clips are sitting next to one another. Just use a screwdriver to push the clips down and pull it out.

Flip it around and this is what you'll find:

Blue circles: Where the wiring clip came out from and they need to go back into the same place.
Yellow circle: To remove the black plastic cover you'll need to turn this bulb holder and pull it out of its socket as it is attached to the black cover. Be delicate here.
Red circles: The 4 screws that the speedo is attached to.

Then you can remove the faceplate once the black and clear plastics are out:

So now you can turn it around and remove that 4 screws and remove the speedo.

Now just follow Gio's steps in putting everything back in your dash!

Hope this helps

**RYCivic** · 12-01-2008 12:18 PM

awsome work Chris, really good step by step right up,

im so going to use this if i decide to put the ctr cluster in my gli haha

**Gio** · 12-01-2008 12:22 PM

Thanks ryan. Hope it helps you out.

**EK1.6LCIV** · 12-01-2008 12:51 PM

Nice read, will come in handy when I install my Spoon Cluster when such an item arises from the depths of the rare, lol

**Gio** · 12-01-2008 12:58 PM

lol as in ur sig

**one4spl** · 14-01-2008 03:45 PM

NOTE: The matt black paint on the dial of the gauges and mask attracts fingerprints like a mofo. Do *not* touch them where it can be seen!

Handling it with tissues is best. If you get prints on the mask or dials do *NOT* use thinner, kero, contact cleaner, etc to get them off. You could use CRC VCR head cleaner, but test it on a non-visible bit first to make sure it doesnt melt the paint or plastic. Spray some on a tissue and then wipe the print off, but it might not come off all that well anyways.

**Gio** · 14-01-2008 04:09 PM

Yeah i was careful to only hold it by the edges

**MikeyG** · 25-06-2008 12:04 AM

hey guys,

Thanks to GIO i did this tonight.. actaully 10 mins ago and it was very good.. everything is fine and everything if running correctly.. honestly it sounds hard but its so easy.. 9 screws and some clips thats it

nice work Gio