Programming mileage in a replacement cluster

[mattt]

Anyone know what it takes to be able to do it yourself? What sort of tech or device is necessary to do this on a 99-02 or 03-06 cluster? I'm thinking about buying an Escalade cluster but want to be able to program my actual mileage into it before installing it. I am familiar with all the dash rebuilders that can do it as a service, but I'm wondering about being able to do it on my own. Most rebuilders want $80+ to program mileage and are hard pushing a full rebuild for $250+. Not really interested in that option. Thanks in advance.

 

[adventurenali92]

It’s quite the involved process from what I understand. I believe @DougAMiller has some insight on this topic right?!

 

[NoReverseYukon]

I, too, would be interested in this process.

 

[TJ Baker]

There's some recent chatter about the subject here...

https://gmtnation.com/forums/thread...ge-between-ipcs-on-99-02-gmt800-trucks.20354/

 

[Doubeleive]

takes a eeprom programmer and software, you may end up spending far too much time and money trying to figure out how to do it when you could have just had a speedo shop do it. unless you are going to be doing things like this for a living it's not worth the time to me anyway, usually you can find people on craigslist that do it for side money

 

[Tonyrodz]

@Austinite has an nnbs but he just did his himself.

 

[DougAMiller]

Anyone know what it takes to be able to do it yourself? What sort of tech or device is necessary to do this on a 99-02 or 03-06 cluster? I'm thinking about buying an Escalade cluster but want to be able to program my actual mileage into it before installing it. I am familiar with all the dash rebuilders that can do it as a service, but I'm wondering about being able to do it on my own. Most rebuilders want $80+ to program mileage and are hard pushing a full rebuild for $250+. Not really interested in that option. Thanks in advance.

I describe how mileage is stored in the EEPROM and what it takes to reprogram it in this thread. I was actually making the change to turn on the trans temp gauge, but I mapped out much of the contents of the memory which included the mileage.

https://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/threads/update-to-adding-trans-temp-gauge.110600/

 

[adventurenali92]

I describe how mileage is stored in the EEPROM and what it takes to reprogram it in this thread. I was actually making the change to turn on the trans temp gauge, but I mapped out much of the contents of the memory which included the mileage.

https://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/threads/update-to-adding-trans-temp-gauge.110600/

Ah yes now I remember the adventure on the trans temp gauge! Lol. There’s a ton of great info in your thread!

 

[Ilikemtb999]

 

[Rocket Man]

Just pay the $80 and save yourself the headache and expense of an eeprom programmer and software unless you just want the experience of doing it yourself. Unless you’re planning on doing it on a lot of clusters it’s not worth it IMO.