[PWR 051]

I recently installed a level 3 Instrument Cluster into my car. If your VN-VS has a level 1 or level 2, you can convert it to a level 3 dash with a little bit of modification to your wiring loom.
This How To is For the VN/VP,with a VR/VS the wiring diagrams are different and the trip computer controls are a whole different set up


Some Benefits of the level 3-
Classier looking cluster
Extra warning Lights
Trip Computer Functions
Speed alert


LEVEL 3
This is the Calais/Statesman dash.


Circled is the extra plug in the bottom of the cluster for the trip computer


Here is the trip computer switchblock


You will need the following things -
- The instrument cluster which range in price from $80-$200 depending which wreckers you go to and how much you can haggle them down to. Make sure you get a VN/VP cluster if fitting to VN/VP and VR/VS if fitting to VR/VS, as the instrument clusters are not interchangeable between VN/VP and VR/VS. Be sure to check the LCD screens don’t have any bleeds in them before you buy one.
- The left hand switchblock with the trip computer controls. Which range from $30-$50 from the wreckers
- The 4th connector that plugs into the bottom of the dash,these can be difficult to get hold of,I chased one for about 7 months.This is part of the wiring loom so some people are reluctant to sell it as they don’t want to ruin a wiring loom(completely understandable),others will sell you the plug at a price(Steve Orders Autos $90).While others(Rodney Hyland Wreckers $8)will cut the loom to sell you the plug. So it all depends on how much you want to pay for one
- The plug to go into the back of the switch block(trip computer controls). Your original one doesnt have the right amount of wires.Chasing this plug can be the same as above,but atleast you can modify the one already in your car(if you have a spare one to chop up to get the pins and wires out of)


Tools
- Philipshead screwdriver
- Small flat blade screw driver
- Wire stripper/cutters
- Soldering Iron/solder
- Heat shrink/electrical tape
-some electrical wire

Attached are the two wiring diagrams that I used when installing mine.Which I got off Street Commodores Forum,they are to Suit a VN Series 2,I am unaware if they correspond with VN series 1 wiring



Disconnect your Positive Battery Terminal
1. Take out your dashboard.
2. Remove your fuse cover panel. Find the wires that go to the 3 connectors for the dash.
3. Find the wires that correspond to the wiring diagrams, cut them and splice the wire from the 4th connector to it.
4. Solder the wires together, and cover with heatshrink, or just electrical tape,then melt with heat gun
5. Remove your original switchblock.
6. I found the easiest way to install the switchblock wiring was to take the extra wires out of the new connector, and plug them into your existing connector. Connect these new wires to wherever they’re supposed to go in the diagram.
7. Run a long piece of wire over to the ECU behind the left passenger side kick panel. Splice that wire into the wire shown on the diagram.

A thing to note -
- You can run the dash without wiring up the 4th conenctor, but you will not have an odometer, and that technically makes the car illegal to drive.


if you have any questions or are interested in this conversion post below or shoot me a PM and I am willing to help out with anything I know from doing mine or where to aquire the parts needed to do the conversion.