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Alright well I chatted to an independent garage near where I live and, although the guy said he had never been asked this before, he did say that he would be able to fit and recode a new cluster but that questions on compatibility/etc would be outside his current range of knowledge on this specific kind of upgrade. He did however mention several european services that he has access to that know the absolute ins and outs of VAG cars which is why I believe this is the route to go if anyone is wanting to go ahead with this upgrade! Have a look around for any VAG specialist independent garages near you and they could be similar or even more knowledgeable. Personally, I have recently found out about OBD2 displays that can show me the exact parameters I have been looking for and are generally more affordable, so my plans to go further with upgrading my cluster gauges will be put aside until I feel the need later on to upgrade from an OBD2 display (such as wanting to eventually have proper analogue gauges rather than digital ones). I believe I'll still be looking into at least swapping my minidot to maxidot as that is more feasible for now plus what Jack mentioned sounds great: Thanks all :)

When the next week comes around and businesses are back, I'm going to call some independent garages (specifically VAG specialists) to see if there's anyone in them who might be familiar with VCDS and able to help or at least entertain the idea enough for some advice. I'll update with any further findings so anyone in the same boat of needing their cluster recoded can hopefully benefit

No worries, thanks so much for the advice already, that's a really helpful guide on the steering wheel. As for the instrument cluster, if I'm unable to find anywhere to swap out the whole thing, I think I will indeed settle on just doing the maxidot change myself like you and thank you for the link to help with that. I hope there is somewhere in the UK that could help with the full cluster upgrade as I would prefer to avoid going the technical and difficult but commendable route that Cachorro is with trying to recode the cluster legally.

Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade my 2014 Fabia with a better instrument cluster that sports the maxidot display as well as the additional coolant temp/fuel analogue gauges. Also for the maxidot, I believe the steering wheel needs the upgrade to the multifunctional version to control the display, so I would be interested with having that done as well. I've already phoned a couple places like Cartronix in which I thought that their term "replace" would also describe what I'm looking to have done but so far I've had no luck with services that I have googled. Either I'm looking in the wrong places or perhaps it's a rare job to do, I'm not sure, but if anyone could help point me in the right direction that would be really helpful. I've heard of the guy known as Eddie-NL on this forum before who has fitted these but it seems that he is no longer online or available as of a couple years now. I am able to source the parts and just need a service to help fit and recode the cluster properly. Thank you for any help.