Help: Compatibility of instrument cluster

[shaikhshahnaz]

Hi, I am thinking of changing my instrument cluster on my e34 520i year 1989. The thing is that all the available instrument clusters have a digital mileage meter, and mine is analogue. Is is compatible? If it is, can anyone tell me how to modify/fix it?

Please help!!

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Shahnaz

[shogun]

You should be more concerned about the code plug and the backplate color of the cluster. Not all can be mixed. Here is some info on that.
http://shrubbery.student.utwente.nl/johan/299960/299960.html

[myles]

Since you have an analogue odometer, you don't have to worry about the 300000 bug the the early digital clusters had.

I think I have read somewhere about someone who did the coversion from analogue to digital with check control, but it sounded like a very large job, lots of wiring mods.

Is there a problem with the old cluster or do you want to make a upgrade?

[shaikhshahnaz]

The analogue odometer doesn't work anymore. I've enquired, there are some people who can change the gears inside to make it work again, but the cost is as much as getting a newer instrument cluster. I am kind of just weighing my options right now.

The other funny thing about my car is that it doesn't have air-conditioning/heater vents for the back passengers that is situated behind the hand brake lever. I have never seen an e34 without it. Could it be the e34 that I have is one of the earliest ones to come out from the factory?


Since you have an analogue odometer, you don't have to worry about the 300000 bug the the early digital clusters had.

I think I have read somewhere about someone who did the coversion from analogue to digital with check control, but it sounded like a very large job, lots of wiring mods.

Is there a problem with the old cluster or do you want to make a upgrade?

[Interceptor]

The other funny thing about my car is that it doesn't have air-conditioning/heater vents for the back passengers that is situated behind the hand brake lever. I have never seen an e34 without it. Could it be the e34 that I have is one of the earliest ones to come out from the factory?
I don't have A/C and my car doesn't have the vents either:
http://free-st.t-com.hr/interceptor/bmw/p5010037.jpg

[uscharalph]

"Since you have an analogue odometer, you don't have to worry about the 300000 bug the the early digital clusters had."

300,000 mile bug?

[Interceptor]

"Since you have an analogue odometer, you don't have to worry about the 300000 bug the the early digital clusters had."

300,000 mile bug?
See Shogun's link for an explanation.