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Hi all.
I've seen a few people here and on the Charger forums who talked about swapping the instrument cluster/speedometer in their 2011-2014 300/Charger for one of the new ones found in the 2015+. I had a similar cluster in my 2015 200 and really enjoyed the large display, so I have been slowly watching out for one for my 2013 JV 300C. It has to match, so I was looking for a 160MPH version (for V8 cars) AND it had to be from an S model due to the gloss black trim.
Finally found one tonight that met those requirements for a great price so I ordered it. Wanted to see if anyone else has done or attempted this swap and what all is involved. If I recall correctly from the Charger forums, it mostly works, except the gear indicator will not display (don't really care about that) but the big issue is that none of the steering wheel commands are recognized. They were able to get the wheel buttons working (or most of the way) by using a CAN bus sniffer but I have no experience with that.
Basically just wondering if anyone here might know what to do, would really like to turn this thread into a tutorial for installation. If anyone has experience with CAN bus "sniffing" or modifying it would be a great start. Tanbam from here is who installed it in a Charger over on those forums but has not logged on here since 2015. I did read through the entire thread on those forums but it doesn't really explain what to do, and eventually activity died out.
I've seen a few people here and on the Charger forums who talked about swapping the instrument cluster/speedometer in their 2011-2014 300/Charger for one of the new ones found in the 2015+. I had a similar cluster in my 2015 200 and really enjoyed the large display, so I have been slowly watching out for one for my 2013 JV 300C. It has to match, so I was looking for a 160MPH version (for V8 cars) AND it had to be from an S model due to the gloss black trim.
Finally found one tonight that met those requirements for a great price so I ordered it. Wanted to see if anyone else has done or attempted this swap and what all is involved. If I recall correctly from the Charger forums, it mostly works, except the gear indicator will not display (don't really care about that) but the big issue is that none of the steering wheel commands are recognized. They were able to get the wheel buttons working (or most of the way) by using a CAN bus sniffer but I have no experience with that.
Basically just wondering if anyone here might know what to do, would really like to turn this thread into a tutorial for installation. If anyone has experience with CAN bus "sniffing" or modifying it would be a great start. Tanbam from here is who installed it in a Charger over on those forums but has not logged on here since 2015. I did read through the entire thread on those forums but it doesn't really explain what to do, and eventually activity died out.