Well, the SE cluster does work perfectly fine and connects without a problem. All the functions of the trip computer work as well. Found my avg. speed around town is 21mph and my avg. mpg is 16mpg (and I have a rather heavy right foot). The removal of the dash is super easy (thanks Dragon); you don’t even need to remove the center stack. The only problem we ran into is that the cluster I bought off E-bay had soda split into it and it messed the speedo motor up a bit. At random is would select and new “0�. After getting off the interstate I noticed while I was sitting still that I was doing 60…, so after that I was doing 100mph when I was doing 40mph. Thankfully this did not effect the odometer in any way. When the needles would reset they would only do around 20mph at a time, so I would have to reset them a few times to get it back to zero.
For those that just want the rings, it couldn’t be easier to do. After all of that I decided to have Dragon put my old cluster back in. When we went to pull the ring out we found that the clear leans and the face plate (metal rings, and other features) are all one piece. So now I am running my factory cluster with the SE face plate. As a side not, it should be easy to paint the face plate if you felt the need to.
In total it took less than half an hour to pull it apart and put everything back together.
:cheers:
**Edit**
Just to clear up any confusion... the milage is stored in the instrument cluster. The SE cluster only had 390 miles more than my X so I didn't fret over it.