Highline Instrument Cluster Wanted

[steve00136]

The original content of this post somehow got duplicated so removed? ...... but a good opportunity for an update that I have now got a replacement for my highline cluster (thanks to Nich) and as soon as Rick of Custom Car Parts is back in business will be sending my original and new cluster to have the eeproms swopped over.
Thanks for your help.
Steve

[Peter260]

Well based on the pictures i have a high line.
Since I was/am the first owner 100% certain the car came with that unit (still is in) and also had navigation installed (the unit in the back (now broken by the way).

The "monitor"was there from new (see also the pictures linked to #0800 on the register here).

Will wait for my parts to arrive :-( Still no sign.
I am handy with electronics so will make a first attempt myself but good to know there is an expert around.
(I will not sell the spare displays. Whole point of buying two was to have a spare should i ever need one.

Fix vintage audio as a hobby and parts like these become very difficult to find at some point in time.
So would advice anyone to buy an extra and store it for the future (if anything the parts will not become cheaper).

As for the unit I bought 15 years ago. Will keep it for spare in case the speedometer or rpm meter breaks.

Thanks,
Peter

[David]

Well based on the pictures i have a high line.
Since I was/am the first owner 100% certain the car came with that unit (still is in) and also had navigation installed (the unit in the back (now broken by the way)...

If you feel the need, you can simply replace the combined CD-Drive and satnav in the right rear wing, by a BMW or MINI DVD Mk. IV 'High' satnav unit.
Map DVD-disk updates stopped at 2019, but better than nothing. Plug and play replacement, potentially a cheap/free version upgrade of the head-unit firmware may be required, that's all.

... but make sure if you do that you buy carefully. I bought one on eBay a couple of years ago, and it only gave me only French, German and Italian language choice! Any takers?

David

[scoubix]

If you feel the need, you can simply replace the combined CD-Drive and satnav in the right rear wing, by a BMW or MINI DVD Mk. IV 'High' satnav unit.
Map DVD-disk updates stopped at 2019, but better than nothing. Plug and play replacement, potentially a cheap/free version upgrade of the head-unit firmware may be required, that's all.

... but make sure if you do that you buy carefully. I bought one on eBay a couple of years ago, and it only gave me only French, German and Italian language choice! Any takers?

David

French, did you say?
Both of my cars have MkIV already. However I can fairly easily change the languages in that unit of yours if you want to, you just need to send that drive to me.
I have the software and K-Bus interface adapter to connect to it.

[David]

French, did you say?
Both of my cars have MkIV already. However I can fairly easily change the languages in that unit of yours if you want to, you just need to send that drive to me.
I have the software and K-Bus interface adapter to connect to it.

I purchased another Mk.IV with English as one of the languages in its firmware, so I have no direct need anymore.
Swallowed my pride and mentally "wrote off" the Euro 75 I had paid for the original Italian/French/German one (now I know why it was cheap!) and it is still sitting on my 'spares-shelf'.

I had already purchased a Resler USB interface cable to hack into the K-Bus too, but chickened out in case I really screwed things up! Also, although I downloaded Navcoder and found an English .LNG language file to download, you had said back in June '20:

"it will ask for the firmware CD for the satnav language change, and you can't use BMW ones on a Rover unit, you need the specific Rover CD.".

... and that I did not have, so the Resler interface is also now sitting next to the Mk IV on the 'spares-shelf' !

David

[scoubix]

I purchased another Mk.IV with English as one of the languages in its firmware, so I have no direct need anymore.
Swallowed my pride and mentally "wrote off" the Euro 75 I had paid for the original Italian/French/German one (now I know why it was cheap!) and it is still sitting on my 'spares-shelf'.

I had already purchased a Resler USB interface cable to hack into the K-Bus too, but chickened out in case I really screwed things up! Also, although I downloaded Navcoder and found an English .LNG language file to download, you had said back in June '20:

... and that I did not have, so the Resler interface is also now sitting next to the Mk IV on the 'spares-shelf' !

David

For the MkIV you would need the BMW v32 firmware CD, which is readily available out there

[David]

For the MkIV you would need the BMW v32 firmware CD, which is readily available out there

Appreciate that, Nicolas, but I was referring to the language change process using a Resler cable and Navcoder. You said then that " ... it will ask for the firmware CD for the satnav language change, and you can't use BMW ones on a Rover unit, you need the specific Rover CD.".

I infer from that, that the CD asked for is not the same as the BMW V.32 (copied) CD I used simply to update my (English language) Mk.IV firmware level for running 2019 maps DVDs therefore?

David