MyColor on non-Premium? Hack/flash/reprogram?

[tazor]

cool just keep a lo mileage cluster around when you return your car in from a lease lol

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[HoosierDaddy]

cool just keep a lo mileage cluster around when you return your car in from a lease lol

And always go for that ultra-low price 100 mile per year lease.

I have to believe these services are illegal. It's against the law to reduce the miles on a car's odometer. So the law must require some proof that the mileage is legit OR require some indelible marking on a reset odometer.

 

[soldier989]

I called 3 dealers around me and asked about repgoramming an odometers mileage.

1. Will only service the odometer through repair work.

2. Said they will only order a cluster based off of the cars VIN, and then Ford will ship it to them with the mileage pre-peogrammed. They woupd not accept one that was bought 3rd party. He proceeded to debate that more needs done to get MyColor to work, despite our findings, but I wasn't about hang on the phone and entertain this turd.

3. They would reprogram the cluster, but they would need the car in the shop and are unsure of how much labor that would entail. (I'm not looking to have them charge me labor to pull the interior apart. Which I bet they would do even if I strolled in with just a steering wheel and cluster sitting there with no interior)

Its so hard to get something done the honest way.

 

[rvlyssup]

I called 3 dealers around me and asked about repgoramming an odometers mileage.

1. Will only service the odometer through repair work.

2. Said they will only order a cluster based off of the cars VIN, and then Ford will ship it to them with the mileage pre-peogrammed. They woupd not accept one that was bought 3rd party. He proceeded to debate that more needs done to get MyColor to work, despite our findings, but I wasn't about hang on the phone and entertain this turd.

3. They would reprogram the cluster, but they would need the car in the shop and are unsure of how much labor that would entail. (I'm not looking to have them charge me labor to pull the interior apart. Which I bet they would do even if I strolled in with just a steering wheel and cluster sitting there with no interior)

Its so hard to get something done the honest way.

Sounds like a huge fat hassle to me. On the same note, sending a cluster clear across the country from me to basically unknown territory is sorta a gamble. For $60 to $80, kinda easy for said programming to go wrong and being SOL $$$s. I read some of those negative feedbacks on eBay, from lost, switched, to broken clusters being sent back screams a no no.

Closest re-program service to me is in San Diego. They have a storefront and also offer mobile service. Doubt they'll drive 3 hours to my neck of the woods though. Me thinks waiting until I hit 12k and swapping out the cluster is still my best bet. I am in no rush to add My Color ATM.

 

[InvidiousX]

Has any one figured out how to definitively identify the premium clusters? The ones on ebay that show the part number on the back don't show up as a correct part number when i type it in at Autonation ford or fordparts.com.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Has any one figured out how to definitively identify the premium clusters? The ones on ebay that show the part number on the back don't show up as a correct part number when i type it in at Autonation ford or fordparts.com.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Can't answer your question but I suspect what you are seeing is the engineering number which incredibly looks just like a part number but isn't.

 

[TheMagneticV6]

So with a swap, you don't need to re-program PATS? Only reprogram for the mileage but if you don't reprogram for that it's just a plug and play with full functionality?

 

[rvlyssup]

Plug and play install.

Use FORscan to disable error messages for options not present. (BLIS, CTA, Alarm, rear sensons, etc.)

And yeah, have the mileage corrected by a speedo shop or dealer.

 

[rvlyssup]

Has any one figured out how to definitively identify the premium clusters? The ones on ebay that show the part number on the back don't show up as a correct part number when i type it in at Autonation ford or fordparts.com.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Easiest way if part number / engineering number show on seller listing is to either message seller for VIN or avoid base clusters with last letter prefixes starting AX & BX. (X denotes A to H)

Depending on the transmission type, you want clusters with last letter prefixes of EX or GX. (see above what X denotes)

Good luck with your hunt!

 

[StangATX]

Wouldn't it be easier to just unsolder the eeprom and swap it in the new cluster...? This way y'all don't need to flash the cluster or pay someone to reflash it... I don't know I just threw the idea like that... I know I used to do it whenever my cluster was out on an older "European" car.

Also, Quick question... I have a 2014/2015 Ford Focus with the color feature. Do you think I can use the module of my Focus in the Stang?

 

[X0AYHAM0X]

Wouldn't it be easier to just unsolder the eeprom and swap it in the new cluster...? This way y'all don't need to flash the cluster or pay someone to reflash it... I don't know I just threw the idea like that... I know I used to do it whenever my cluster was out on an older "European" car.

Also, Quick question... I have a 2014/2015 Ford Focus with the color feature. Do you think I can use the module of my Focus in the Stang?

We've said it before :lol: the base cluster is physically different than the premium one and the LEDs on it are non-RGB

 

[StangATX]

We've said it before :lol: the base cluster is physically different than the premium one and the LEDs on it are non-RGB

My bad lol swap the SMD with your own controller I guess...? Sorry if I said something dumb right there lol I know some of you guys want it like OEM.

 

[X0AYHAM0X]

My bad lol swap the SMD with your own controller I guess...? Sorry if I said something dumb right there lol I know some of you guys want it like OEM.

Yes that could work, I did get the guy who done my mileage to make MyColor menu show up on my base cluster but it only supported white.

 

[soldier989]

Found a fairly cheap cluster with about 1500 more miles than my current cluster. I'm thinking about picking it up, and swapping it when my mileage is the exact same, so I won't need the mileage reprogrammed. I'm curious though, I've read that mileage Information is possibly stored elsewhere. Is that true? I mainly want to know, so I know if I need to swap it at the exact same 1/10th of a mile. Or if being a mile or 2 off won't be represented anywhere else in the vehicle.

 

[zackmd1]

Found a fairly cheap cluster with about 1500 more miles than my current cluster. I'm thinking about picking it up, and swapping it when my mileage is the exact same, so I won't need the mileage reprogrammed. I'm curious though, I've read that mileage Information is possibly stored elsewhere. Is that true? I mainly want to know, so I know if I need to swap it at the exact same 1/10th of a mile. Or if being a mile or 2 off won't be represented anywhere else in the vehicle.

Almost every other module in the vehicle stores milage information. I guess that is their way of making sure that you can truly tamper with the milage reading.

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