OBC addition Cables

[Fintro11]

[Pdwight]

with the harness it will be a cakewalk, please let me know when it comes in

Thanks
Dwight

[eicheldp]

Finally got everything installed, 4th stalk in place and buttoned up. Connected the Durametric, activated the OBC.........FAIL. :troll:

Could not get the correct number of bytes back from the OBC plus I received a fault code of 5555.

I am confused. Do I need to go to the dealer and have the factory code turned on with the PIWIS(?).

[Pdwight]

I had the same situation when I did my install, I drove to another members home and he had a PIWIS (spelling?)and it still did no good. What it turned out to be was a connection. Double check the connector you inserted the pins into at the back of the instrument panel, make double sure it is completely plugged in all the way...easy to have it askew .

Also be sure none of your pins pushed out of the connector....if you saw the triangles they should stay in place.

Next thing to try is the actual 4 stalk, I had a cold solder joint in the OBC lever on the ground.....easy to "Ohm" this lever out.

Let me know if I can ever help

Dwight

[eicheldp]

Dwight,
Took it apart and put it back together.....It now works.

Go figure.

Thanks for all your help & you too Bruce. The harness worked great.
One word of advice to all who want to do this hack. Put the top down first. Life will be much easier. Ask me how I know.

Don

[nm24]

Hi Pdwight,
New to site and was interested in a wiring harness for a 4 stalk steering column upgrade I want to do on my 2000 Boxster S (RHD). Does your harness do away with putting together the various VW connectors/wires as in 101 thing to do on Porsche Boxster book?
I have the 4 stalk switch with cruise control etc and am looking for simple plug & play type harness which seems to be what you have?

[oldskool73]

Yes, these are basically premade versions of the harness described in the 101 project book.

Also, for the guys in the UK/AU above... not taking away from what Pdwight is doing as he's certainly making a great product and has pages of great reviews here to attest to that... but there's also an EBay seller in the UK who makes the same thing (and a cruise control version also). With the current exchange rates they work out to be about half the price.

[lkchris]

Installed Dwight's nice cable about a year ago and bought a Durametric and got OBC activated. However, nothing on the dash. Retry with Durametric said already activated.

So this week I installed the 3-blink turn signal upgrade and decided to check my obc wiring at the same time. For a while now I've owned a complete 996 dash wiring harness (must weigh 100 lb) and was able to track down the obc wiring in that to enable me to verify the pin connections, in case I'd miswired the dash connector--I hadn't.

Anyway, after getting everything back together obc now works and I'm really happy.

Moral to the story? Guess it's possible to not get that gray connector (mine's 2001) correctly reattached to the cluster ... or perhaps I didn't get the black connector block back into the gray holder correctly. My car is manual trans and there's only one other wire in the gray connector--don't know what it is but saw no other problem during the year not having gray connector correct.

3-blink works, too, but it was a big hassle ...obc activation was a piece of cake in comparison... just don't be confused by suggestions you need to remove steering wheel. Obc lever is separately removable from the rest, so you can just bolt it on to your existing configuration.

[Pdwight]

Check all your connectors on the back of your instrument cluster...I cant remember which one it was but one was not plugged all the way in.....it looked like it was....but was not.

Also be carefull with the instrument cluster wiring connectors....mine started disintegrating as I was removing them and reinstalling them

[Luckyed]

Originally Posted by Pdwight

Also be carefull with the instrument cluster wiring connectors....mine started disintegrating as I was removing them and reinstalling them

Same here.....very fragile!!

[Deserion]

Originally Posted by Pdwight

Check all your connectors on the back of your instrument cluster...I cant remember which one it was but one was not plugged all the way in.....it looked like it was....but was not.

I had the same issue when I did my install. Oops.