When i was a junk yard this past monday i noticed a Saturn Ion there that had a Gauge cluster still in it and i really like it. How hard would it be to put this into a Sunfire? I know that the dash would be to be cut and molded and that stuff but would it just be a simple match this wire to this wire and go or wouldn't the swap work at all?
where could i find a pin out for both cars? how could i find out if the protocols are the same? I if it comes to it ill just hook them up accordin to the pin out and see if it works lol
You have a 98... which is UART for the data communication. Saturn Ion is what, 02? 03? Probably uses Class 2 wiring protocols for the data communication. Likely won't work. If it was the same year/era of car.. example: you can swap clusters between 00 and 05 between Cav and Sunfire. You can't put a 99 cluster in a 00 J-ca tho. Won't work.
plus you have to take in to consideration the Passlock also.
true true. never thought of the passlock too. I dunno ill do some research on the subject.
I don't know of any easy cluster swaps from other cars.
If it was the same year of car, or type of wiring (some GM cars didn't go Class 2 til 02 or later... ie. Camaro/Firebird never did... phased out in 02 model), etc. it imght be easier then... but you'd have to accomodate some stuff.. like in the J-body up to and including 99 the cluster did a LOT of stuff. If you remove it, some stuff won't work at all...