Ford mondeo dash pinout

[chris p duck]

Hi all. I've just bought a Mondeo dash to replace my Vectra cluster (couldn't drive the speedo all the way up on the Vectra dash)

I heard people have had success with this one? Does anyone have a pinout for this dash (mk3)

Cheers in advance


Completely unrelated but is it likely that need for shift 2 will be supported?

[nescafe37]

Hiya matey. I do belive that christiano had some mondeo clusters working but im not sure if it was a mk3 or not??

[chris p duck]

Cheers Nescafe. Yeah I saw in one of his posts that he'd used a mondeo dash which is why I went for one. Just hoping he (or someone else) can point me in the direction of a pinout. My googling has failed to bring up anything useful!

[Cristiano]

Hello.
I think my Mondeo dashboard is from a mk3.
Sunday I will send you a diagram with my connection and a picture of the back of the dashboard. I won't be at home until the end of the week.

Cheers
Cristiano

[Cristiano]

Hello.
The following pictures:

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9638/dscf1573v.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2255/dscf1574c.jpg
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3958/dscf1575u.jpg
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/8186/dscf1576g.jpg


display the connections of my Ford Mondeo dashboard.
There is some extra wiring to make the backlight work as well.

1: rpm signal
2,4: 12V
9: speedometer signal
3,5,6,7,8: ground

Cheers

Cristiano

[chris p duck]

Cheers for the prompt reply as always.

I guess one of us doesn't have a mk3 dash as mine looks different (well the front does, I haven't seen the back yet. It's an eBay purchase and hasn't arrived yet) my fingers crossed that at least some of the wiring is the same!

[chris p duck]

Where is the best place to find cluster pinout data? My dash is very different from Cristiano's (a single grey connector) I've tried extensive google and a Haynes manual but no joy.

[Cristiano]

Hello.
I googled:

mk3 mondeo service manual

and got few results but I didn't check them so I don't know if they are good or not.

Cheers
Cristiano

[chris p duck]

Still no joy finding a pinout for the mk3 dash :-( even managed to get hold of a Ford TIS disc (technical information system) it's got everything but what I need! it details what colour wire connects to which pin, and a block diagram for the cluster, but nothing that shows which pin does what! Aghhh. Anyone have any suggestions? As above I've tried a Haynes manual and googling (including "Mondeo Service Manual") but no joy.

I've even ripped it apart on the hope I could trace the tracks but they are extremely thin and double sided, most of them seem to go into some ICs swell which doesn't help!

[Mortos]

Are you sure the dash uses RPM pulse input?

Newer cars have switched over to CAN bus or a similar system. So they don't use an RPM signal directly. Instead, the data is sent over a serial connection running throughout the entire vehicle.

Sadly, if this is the case with your dashboard, the RevBurner cannot drive it. Unless you find a way to emulate the serial bus used by Ford, I doubt you can make it work without swapping out the internals of the instruments.


As to why Christiano can drive his yet you can't, this could be explained by a refresh. Manufacturers update their products throughout their lifetime, so this revision of the dash could be newer then Christiano's.

[nescafe37]

yes the mk3 mondeo is canbus buddy

[chris p duck]

Crud, cheers for the help anyway guys. I think Christiano's is mk2. Back on eBay it goes! shame as I like the layout, too much work to replace all the internals though. Fingers crossed a mk2 comes up cheap soon.