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Old 12-15-2008, 01:50 AM   #1
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Cool Digital Gauges, Auto Climate control, Manu-matic shifter

I LOVE all of the features that certain Yaris's from various other countries have to offer. Take for example the UK Yaris SR which has digital guages, auto climate control and a manumatic transmission. Not to mention smart-key (the proximity based keyless entry that the prius has) and heated seats and a whole list of things not offered in the US and Canada.

My question is, how hard would it be to just locate and buy the parts needed for these 3 things?

Being a complete car modding noob, I am guessing that it would be pretty easy to swap in the digital guages, a little more diffficult to swap in the manumatic transmission (might require buying a new ecu and other electronics), and a bit harder to get the auto climate control system (might rquire a whole new a/c system, plus all the extra servos to control the recycled air control, and you would obviously have to buy the control panel, assuming it fits into the us yaris)


Does anyone know about these mods/has anyone attempted them? How much success did you have with any of these 3 projects? If you did achieve the goal, please include part numbers and where you bought them from.


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Old 12-15-2008, 05:40 AM   #2
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The digital cluster is a standard here in australia....

Dont know much about the AC knobs... but it looks like a great idea....
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Old 12-15-2008, 09:41 AM   #3
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digital gauges... seeing as how nobody yet has managed to swap a tach-equipped gauge cluster, i would not hold my breath on that one...

Auto climate control, pretty sure that runs off a specialized ECU, and a couple extra temperature sensors. Nobody's tried that yet!

Manumatic transmission is a possibility, you could add paddle shifters with electronics that tell the transmission ECU to change gears... I think someone mentioned a company that does these kits, but they were rather expensive...
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:12 AM   #4
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I know no one has been able to swap in a guage cluster for a car without a tach, but the usdm yaris S's do have tachs. I am planning on getting a 2009 3 dr liftback S which DOES have a tach, so I am still holding out that it would be a simple plug n play swap. I can't imagine that buying an oem part such as a guage cluster would be TOO expensive for me to just buy and try, and who knows....

I think I know what ur saying for the auto climate control... it would probably be too much to do even with all the right parts.


Also, for the manumatic transmission, I am not talking about a 3rd party kit that wasn't designed for Yaris, I am talking about an OEM replacement that is an option on the EU Yaris. I think it is also the same transmission shared with the XB, which does have manu-matic standard for the US. I have also heard that the transmission on the yaris equipped with manu-matic is actually a CVT which has a special program which makes it simulate a 6 speed manu-matic when you put it in that mode.


In all 3 of these, I am not talking about 3rd party gear, I am talking about OEM parts, it is really just a matter of finding ALL the parts necessary and having the knowledge to put them in.

I guess I will just have to wait and see when I get my yaris, sigh.

BTW, I think this is the 3rd party paddle shifters u are talking about:

http://twistmachine.com/shopping/ind...69777861a36885

For 1,700$ plus to convert from auto, and 6,000$ plus to convert from manual, I think it is safe to say that this particular piece of equip would be wasted on a car that is already good without it.

Also, on a slightly unrelated note...
Why has no one been able to swap in a tachometer, the Yaris obviously has OBD and probably CAN bus to controll its guages right? If a scanguage II can work in a Yaris, you would think that the guages are all hooked up to OBD, just maybe with a different pinout/connector for the ones with and the ones without a tach.
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Old 12-16-2008, 11:47 PM   #5
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OMG I want that digital cluster.. Would a swap be possible on a Canadian `08 RS Hatch? (Standard Transmission)??
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Old 12-17-2008, 12:35 AM   #6
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While talking to a friend who has the xD he said the digital guages are also available in Japan for the japenese version of the xD.If there is anyone on here living over there go intothe dealership with those pictures and get part numbers......my buddy has the temperature one but that was all he was able to find so far.
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Old 12-17-2008, 06:55 PM   #7
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many of the over sea yarii have a CVT gearbox.
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Old 12-17-2008, 08:06 PM   #8
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I don't think you'd have much luck swapping in an overseas transmission, especially a CVT. The US ECU probably wouldn't be able to cope with a different transmission, and would at the least throw some sort of error code.

As for the gauges over CAN it would be possible, but there'd probably be a lot of work involved. The OBD-II port is not necessarily running the same type of CAN interface that the car uses internally. The protocol for the OBD-II port is well defines by SAE for diagnostic purposes, but the internal CAN bus that Toyota uses to make all the part of the car talk to the other probably doesn't use the same protocol. There may be other information shooting across that internal CAN bus that is different between the overseas gauge clusters and the US one.
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Old 12-18-2008, 11:01 AM   #9
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I have the time, but not the cash to try this. If I had the cash I would try to get the digital tack to work with the usdm cars. I would also try to get it to work with the non Tach equipped cars. I have the time just not the cash. But from what I was seeing on my 08 hatch without the tack is all the wires are there just in different locations them from the yaris's with the tack, unless i misread the wire colors.
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Old 12-18-2008, 11:03 AM   #10
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There is a werecked LB 07 yaris at the junk yard with the tach I might have to take a trip there and haggle a price and see if i cant brake this down to get it to work
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Are these guages available seperately, I want to change mine....
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Old 10-23-2012, 01:32 PM   #12
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Are these guages available seperately, I want to change mine....
You have to track them down via a junkyard. I have right hand drive and left hand drive versions of the digital cluster that I purchased from junk yards in Australia (RHD) and Israel (LHD). They work fine in a US Yaris with the exception of having to extend the cables to the cluster for using one with the opposite side drive. You wouldn't want to do that though, as the display is angled to point towards the driver.

As for the electronic climate controls, that requires quite a bit more work. I actually successfully did so, but it requires also changing some wiring, the AC ECU, and the manual flap controls. Here's a video of my conversion while I was working on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbInNKKEwFc
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Old 11-27-2012, 12:33 PM   #13
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You have to track them down via a junkyard. I have right hand drive and left hand drive versions of the digital cluster that I purchased from junk yards in Australia (RHD) and Israel (LHD). They work fine in a US Yaris with the exception of having to extend the cables to the cluster for using one with the opposite side drive. You wouldn't want to do that though, as the display is angled to point towards the driver.

As for the electronic climate controls, that requires quite a bit more work. I actually successfully did so, but it requires also changing some wiring, the AC ECU, and the manual flap controls. Here's a video of my conversion while I was working on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbInNKKEwFc
Do you by chance have the names, or the links to the israel ones?
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Old 11-27-2012, 01:26 PM   #14
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Do you by chance have the names, or the links to the israel ones?
Unfortunately they only had one Yaris and haven't gotten any more since. It was Otto Auto Parts.
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Old 12-02-2012, 04:56 PM   #15
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I have a Canadian cluster in my '07 LB. The speedo is metric, which most people don't like, but it's got a factory tach and it works great. Bought it on ebay for $50, and it was about a 10-minute swap.
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You have to track them down via a junkyard. I have right hand drive and left hand drive versions of the digital cluster that I purchased from junk yards in Australia (RHD) and Israel (LHD). They work fine in a US Yaris with the exception of having to extend the cables to the cluster for using one with the opposite side drive. You wouldn't want to do that though, as the display is angled to point towards the driver.

As for the electronic climate controls, that requires quite a bit more work. I actually successfully did so, but it requires also changing some wiring, the AC ECU, and the manual flap controls. Here's a video of my conversion while I was working on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbInNKKEwFc
Do you think it'd be possible to change the way that the RHD digital cluster is angled? I'm wondering if you could swap the guts into a LHD housing, or cut/plastic weld the tabs to get it to fit a LHD car properly?
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Do you think it'd be possible to change the way that the RHD digital cluster is angled? I'm wondering if you could swap the guts into a LHD housing, or cut/plastic weld the tabs to get it to fit a LHD car properly?
I have both RHD and LHD digital ones that I have purchased, and the RHD ones would not be east to flip. It could be done, but it would require refabricating the entire housing for the VFD and the mirror (which is the surface that you actually view). The other issue with the RHD ones is that the connectors are on the opposite sides, so you have to lengthen about 20 or so wires to allow our LHD harness connectors to reach.
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Old 12-02-2012, 10:07 PM   #18
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what about the LHD hatchback with the cluster in the middle, do you have to lengthen the wires for that one or is it plug and play?
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