Greetings from Athens, Greece,

I just swaped my old trusty Astra H 1.6 turbo petrol for a used Octavia mk2 2008 VRS (needed the extra space, now with the baby and all).

Back in the days I did some retrofitting for my Astra (added extras like color screen, original NAVI, original Bluetooth with voice dialing, OPC instrument cluster, original bi Xenon Headligths with auto leveling and AFL curve function, etc).

Since my new Skoda is a bit poorly equipped (old owner must really spend all his cash just buying the car, no extras whatsoever...), I will start a retrofitting master plan also ;-)

 

Need your help with my..., well... second project (first one already finished, got a 2014 RNS510 Columbus from ebay, to be delivered in 1-2 days).

 

I was wondering if its possible to swap the pre-Facelift ugly, non Maxi Dot instrument cluster, with a nice (white lights and all) RS Maxidot from the facelift RS.

Anyone done this before?

 

apologies for my bad English, or any mistakes, not a native speaker ;-)

 

Welcome.

It is possible, but you'll need to be able to find the right part depending upon whether you have a petrol or diesel Vrs. Ideally you need the speedo/clocks, keys and immobiliser from the donor vehicle. I believe it can be done without these, it's just more complicated.

Then you'll need expensive equipment to code it in to your vehicle. It is not a straight forward task unless you have the right equipment: and VCDS is not it.

Eddie_NL on here is the expert on these things do might be worth a PM to him after you have read the threads on here detailing what is needed.

So... It seems Mission Impossible for the FL cluster to fit to a pre-FL model ;-)

Perhaps a pre-FL will do the trick easier? Like the one below.

http://www.skodateile.cz/index.php?pg=product∏=53&menu=%C5%A0koda%7COctavia%20II%28A5%29%7CPanely%20p%C5%99%C3%ADstroj%C5%AF

Will ask my Skoda dealer tomorrow, if he can undertake this venture and the extra cost