30th October 2020, 10:04 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Posts: 2,986
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Originally Posted by spannerrash
Now I know this can be done on plenty of other clusters but I thought the Audi's of this era were heavily encrypted and so made it almost impossible to use a second hand unit and correct the millage to that of your original.
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Unfortunately you've been put through a process that wasn't required, as a secondhand instrument cluster can easily be altered to replicate the original one. Mine had the issue of the smaller displays having fully on pixels, which over time increased in number and hiding some of the digits, so I got a secondhand one from the forum sponsors and then took it to an Audi dealership who coded it into the car. That was four years ago and from memory I think I had to take all my keys with me.
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