I just bought my son a cream puff ‘99 Cavalier 5 speed 2.2L. It has the standard instrument cluster and we are wondering if the optional cluster with tachometer will work in his car.
Do all the clusters have the “shift” light, but it just isn’t used on automatic transmission vehicles?
On a '99, the theft system will have to be reset once the new cluster is installed or the car won't run, and you'll have to swap the odometer from the old cluster over to the new one if you want it to keep the original mileage.
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2000 Cavalier Coupe, 138k miles, 2.2 Auto, Silver (alive)
1999 Cavalier Sedan, 237k miles, 2.2 Auto, White (dead)
The interesting thing is my son's '99 has a DIGITAL display for the odometer just like my 2000 model year Cavi LS.
But, the manual for the car show a picture of the cluster with the old analog odometer.
I am wondering if it is a transition car or something?
sorry to thread jack but how do you reset the theft system?
and 99 was the only year model with digital. 95-98 was analog and 00-02, 03-05 was digital.
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Old Wolf wrote:The interesting thing is my son's '99 has a DIGITAL display for the odometer just like my 2000 model year Cavi LS.
But, the manual for the car show a picture of the cluster with the old analog odometer.
I am wondering if it is a transition car or something?
98 was the year they started changing to digital odometers, so SOME of the 98's got them, and ALL of the 99's got them. The thing that makes it bad is the mileage on 99's and older are stored in the cluster, 00+ its stored in the BCM. On the old analog ones you could just swap the tumblers out, but the 98 and 99 digitals need to have the cluster itself sent out to be reprogrammed. Interestingly enough, Sunfires had digital odometers since 97.
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Shifted wrote:98 was the year they started changing to digital odometers, so SOME of the 98's got them, and ALL of the 99's got them. The thing that makes it bad is the mileage on 99's and older are stored in the cluster, 00+ its stored in the BCM. On the old analog ones you could just swap the tumblers out, but the 98 and 99 digitals need to have the cluster itself sent out to be reprogrammed. Interestingly enough, Sunfires had digital odometers since 97.
I must be one of the lucky 97 sunfire owners with the analog odometer. . .
Does this mean the cluster in my 2000 Cavalier will work in his 1999 Cavalier?
^ No, the 2000+ uses a different communication platform than the 99-. You can't swap between 99 and below, and 2000 and above. Not only does it just not work, the clusters are physically different size, and don't fit well in the dash.
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Just slap on one of those aftermarket "rice" tachs with the huge shift light that goes up to twice your engine's redline and call it a day. You know those things add like 15 horsepower.
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2000 Cavalier Coupe, 138k miles, 2.2 Auto, Silver (alive)
1999 Cavalier Sedan, 237k miles, 2.2 Auto, White (dead)
