2018 gauge cluster retrofit

[db252]

Hasn’t been any problem with the Fusion and F150 guys.

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[gt_stang]

Hey guys. I recently converted a 2018 Canada GT to EU vars. I already did retrofitting of various modules with my s550.guru project. If I can contribute to this thread or be of any help, I would be happy to do so.

I am from Switzerland and it is pretty hard getting new parts from overseas - and it's always with high costs for p&p&customs. With the parts available I would surely already have a solution.

 

[Mr.Mustang]

Hey guys. I recently converted a 2018 Canada GT to EU vars. I already did retrofitting of various modules with my s550.guru project. If I can contribute to this thread or be of any help, I would be happy to do so.

I am from Switzerland and it is pretty hard getting new parts from overseas - and it's always with high costs for p&p&customs. With the parts available I would surely already have a solution.

Just for everyone to know, he has got the AS-Built data for a 2018 Mustang WITH digital cluster but WITHOUT automatic high beams.
Afaik that‘s what you guys were missing to figure out the AS Codes and make the high beam work again

 

[db252]

Hey guys. I recently converted a 2018 Canada GT to EU vars. I already did retrofitting of various modules with my s550.guru project. If I can contribute to this thread or be of any help, I would be happy to do so.

I am from Switzerland and it is pretty hard getting new parts from overseas - and it's always with high costs for p&p&customs. With the parts available I would surely already have a solution.

Anything you have to enlighten us would be greatly appreciated since we are so early in this endeavor. Those of us that have progressed thus far have tried to put forth whatever we’ve found along the way. Thanks.

 

[randy_tho]

Has anybody tried to or about to tackle converting a base model? Lots of reference to Sync 3 and Nav here but is it really a dependency? (Given the nav function won't work on the cluster.)

 

[breeves002]

Ordered all my parts just now.... 7JAN code gets you 7% off your whole order. Whopping $91! I didn't order the steering wheel or airbag. I don't feel like spending another $600 plus the pigtails for the harness. If only we could reuse the airbag! Maybe I'll do that when winter returns. It does get cold here and I find myself wanting that heated steering wheel often!

I'm going to have a fun time figuring out the as built for my car being a manual with 401A. I'm pretty sure the 2018's that have BLIS also have adaptive cruise. Has anyone added adaptive cruise? That would be something interesting (and maybe a nightmare) to take on. Anyways, I'll have to figure out how to enable BLIS without enabling adaptive cruise and that may be difficult or impossible. In that case I'll just have to figure out how to add adaptive cruise to my car

 

[JPJr]

breeves, the adaptive cruise sensor itself is just a square sensor.
It's mounted under the bumper support. Not sure what other components go with it. There is no windshield camera like my Challenger had, which also had adaptive cruise.

My car is a 401 auto, ACC, BLIS, NAV, rain sensing wipers.
I'd need an asbuilt from a similar '18, but an '18 with all this also has the auto high beams. To keep everything working, I'd probably lose my high beams unless i can retro fit that!

 

[Spart]

My car is a 401 auto, ACC, BLIS, NAV, rain sensing wipers.
I'd need an asbuilt from a similar '18, but an '18 with all this also has the auto high beams. To keep everything working, I'd probably lose my high beams unless i can retro fit that!

Nah. There's probably only a few areas in the as-built (maybe just one character!) that relate to the auto high beams.

What you need to do is get as-built files from two 18's - one with and one without the auto high beams - and isolate where Ford is turning that on and off.

Then you can mix up a custom set of as-built lines for your IPC that matches your car, even though no car may ever come from the factory with that particular set of options.

This is what as-built hacking is all about!

 

[breeves002]

JPJr thanks for the info. I figure for auto wipers there's the sensor on the windshield and for auto high beams there's a camera on the windshield as well?

I would be nervous that it requires a different pcm calibration to do adaptive cruise. If no ones ever done it there really is only one way to find out.

I found a VIN for a 2018 Premium manual 401A/Safe and secure/Active exhaust/Auto high beams if you want it. What Spart said is exactly right!

 

[DanMc85]

Nah. There's probably only a few areas in the as-built (maybe just one character!) that relate to the auto high beams.

What you need to do is get as-built files from two 18's - one with and one without the auto high beams - and isolate where Ford is turning that on and off.

Then you can mix up a custom set of as-built lines for your IPC that matches your car, even though no car may ever come from the factory with that particular set of options.

This is what as-built hacking is all about!

720-01-01 xxxX xxxx xxxx

A hex 4 in this spot should turn on auto high beams if this cluster follows similar to Ford's other clusters for programming bits.

0100... so acceptable values with auto high beams using a binary to hexadecimal conversion are: 4, 5, 6, C, D, E, F since this spot controls more than just Auto High Beams.

 

[breeves002]

Someone needs to make a guide that lays out all the registers and what each bit sets. Would make it super easy to just figure out what bits you need/want set and convert to hex for that register.

AKA it tells you active bit 2 in register 720-01-01 for the first word is auto high beam enable. This would of course give you xxx4. Then if you have bit 1 active as well for something unrelated you have xxx6... That would be my ideal list!

There really is a lot of values to set! I mean one line has three words. Total of 48 possible register values.

 

[TallyMach1]

This post has links to a lot of the as-built values that have been figured out so far: https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61773


This post is trying to collect the as-built data into a database: https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96464

I realize they are not guides, but it's what we have so far :cheers:

 

[breeves002]

Thats fantastic. Thanks for the links! I did see the library - that is useful. I wish I had time to take all of this information and write a better guide. Maybe one day... I remember when forscan first came out. I wrote a decent guide on using it with MS-CAN.

Tasca emailed me asking for my VIN. They say Ford won't send them a cluster unless they provide a VIN. I gave it to them. Don't see why it would be a problem when you can already tell them you're upgrading a 2016.

 

[JPJr]

Thanks, all!
I have renewed hope!

 

[Sherrodmustang]

Going to jump on this mod also here shortly.

Thank you guys for all the info!!

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