96-00 Honda Civic Ex Gauge

[sjsotelo]

Can you put a 96-00 Honda Civic Ex Gauge Cluster w/ Tach not Type R into a 98 civic DX and match everything up easy? or does it not fit correct? Im guessing you would have to run a rpm wire or somethign for that gauge, but would everything else that the stock DX cluster line up with the stuff for the EX?

-Stephen

[Calesta]

It will plug right in. The wiring for the tachometer is in your dash.

[sjsotelo]

sweet, so would i have to run a wire or somethign for my RPM gauge on the new EX gauge?.... b/c the DX doesnt have a rpm gauge at all.

[Calesta]

No, you shouldn't need to run any new wires. Every DX I've played in has the tachometer harness in the dash already- you just have to plug it in. It doesn't make much sense for Honda to make two separate harnesses just because one car doesn't come with a tach... it's much cheaper to just wire all the cars up the same way from the beginning and just put different parts into them.

[sjsotelo]

ya that makes sense, hopfuly last qustion for this subject! Can you easly adjest the miles on it? Like the one i was looking at has 46k, and my car has 130, and I want to be able to put the real miles on it.

[Vtec_Power]

you have to take the cluster apart and transfer it over... i think theres a writeup of it somewhere on here.

[Calesta]

Yeah- you just remove the odometer from the original cluster and transfer it over to the new one. Don't try to modify the mileage. If you can't get just the odometer section out, swap over the entire speedometer section along with the odo.

[Siege911]

Yeah, I had to get a new speedometer head, b/c my speedometer was all messed up, so I couldn't swap the odometer... now, it reads 130k, but i actually only have 93k on it. But yeah, if it's good, you can just swap it in, like calesta said.