996 speedo - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Blue99 · 10-12-2019, 01:38 AM

Hi I’m looking to do the 996 speedo swop to get the extra 2 gauges but the best condition ones I can find are US spec does anyone know if they will still program to a European spec car

KevinH1990 · 10-12-2019, 04:53 AM

I can't say that I "know" it will work, but based on the work I did swapping a 996 cluster into my car: http://986forum.com/forums/boxster-general-discussions/43017-carrera-gauge-swap.html I think it is likely to work for a cluster with the older-style lcd displays. I have not worked on the newer-style dot matrix display.

The U.S. spec clusters can be set to read in kilometers. This suggests that Porsche used one cluster for all the cars.

986bsdriver · 10-12-2019, 05:29 PM

Not sure if this helps, but I have a USDM car running a CaDM cluster and a row tune without issues. I just made sure the plug colours matched up