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reading fg clusters
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:29 pm
by shadowgun
hey fellas
recently brought an f6 fg cluster to put on an xr6t as a project and apparently only ford can reprogram these clusters again to link to pats correctly and start the car
was reading through here and found a way to get ford ids program working and link it with an openport 2.0 (ive got it all working and reads the car kinda)
my drama is it doesnt seem to pickup the instrument cluster whenever i scan for it, i can pickup the hvac, pcm, tcm etc but i noticed it doesnt pickup the cluster
has anyone found a way to relink the cluster, and if possible adjust the kms to match my old cluster
car is 09 mk1 fg xr6t im reading off, using ids 112.01 software on an openport 2.0 cable
cheers
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:38 am
by Whiteford
Hey Shadowgun,
I have seen this in the past. For some reason the openport is unable to switch effectively between HS can and MS can when working with IDS. The only option is to use a VCM/VCM2. I do this programming within Melbourne. Feel free to PM me for further details and costing.
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:10 am
by rolls
As said above the openport cant do the low speed stuff and will fail. You need a genuine VCM2, about $1k off ebay second hand.
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:51 am
by Tazzi
GM MDI can be used with older versions of IDS by swapping out the VCM2 dlls with the MDI dlls. MDI happily works at MS CAN (125000) and HS CAN (500000).
Never versions of IDS seem to block using MDI or any other j tool by doing the above method.
Cluster odometer programming will fail unless cluster is new also so bare that in mind.
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:14 pm
by rolls
What does an MDI cost?
I just assumed it would be the price of a VCM2
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:30 am
by Tazzi
rolls wrote:What does an MDI cost?
I just assumed it would be the price of a VCM2
Well... a genuine is $1500ish. A good clone is around $300ish
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:23 am
by kur4o
Tazzi wrote:GM MDI can be used with older versions of IDS by swapping out the VCM2 dlls with the MDI dlls.
What will be the newest ids version that will work with mdi.
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:45 pm
by rolls
kur4o wrote:Tazzi wrote:GM MDI can be used with older versions of IDS by swapping out the VCM2 dlls with the MDI dlls.
What will be the newest ids version that will work with mdi.
Fairly sure all versions will work with that trick.
Re: reading fg clusters
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:40 am
by Tazzi
rolls wrote:kur4o wrote:Tazzi wrote:GM MDI can be used with older versions of IDS by swapping out the VCM2 dlls with the MDI dlls.
What will be the newest ids version that will work with mdi.
Fairly sure all versions will work with that trick.
Unfortunately not, seems to block/edit something to prevent it.