If you have questions on how to (de)solder/program the EEPROM, this video is not for you! I am not responsible if you brick or damage your cluster in any way.

This method may or may not work for you! VW have many vendors who make clusters that look very similar physically but have completely different controller and memory mapping internally. So it is an absolute requirement for you to save the EEPROM before modifying! You need to have an original backup in case your memory mapping is different and so you can revert it back to original!

This video is just showing you how i managed to enable needle sweep (staging) in my 2012 GTI cluster using EEPROM dump and reprogram. In my case it is actually possible to do this mod via VCDS (and i do have the genuine cable), but i just wanted to see if I can do it the basic way :).

Mine is a VDO cluster (5K6 920 973 C) for your reference.

Thanks for watching.

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