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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:11 pm 
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has anyone had a go or has technical data on flashing the trip computer in a 90 LTD to make it Y2K compatible ?

id like my clock to go past 1999 any help greatly appreciated


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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:39 pm 
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gday sav, pm a guy called data_mine, he might be able to help you ;)
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:21 pm 
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/me looks quizically

Nah, got no idea about that. I doubt thet'd even BE flashable. Most likely permanently fixed ROM.

 

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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:43 pm 
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would u be able to retrofit the ef/el one or are they totaly different?

 

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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:14 pm 
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ill give data_mine a pm and see how i got from there

any other ppl who have any idea please post

cheers

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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:17 pm 
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should read the posts more carefully

data_mine its flashable coz ford do flash them for the tidy sum of $90.00 which ofcourse i am unwilling to part with hehe

 

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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:35 pm 
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sav wrote:
should read the posts more carefully

data_mine its flashable coz ford do flash them for the tidy sum of $90.00 which ofcourse i am unwilling to part with hehe


Perhaps someone could get hold of a Y2K compliant image and look into relfashing them :D

 

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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:59 pm 
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i heard somewhere i think, that if you set the year to 1988, it is all good.... or something.. i dunno - just something i think i picked up somewhere :P

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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:48 pm 
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Do what I did when I had my NA Fairlane, fit a trip computer from an NC III Fairlane as the calendar goes back to 1972, hence its the same calendar year as 2000,.

So if you run it off the year 1982, its the same calendar year as 2006.

EF/EL just wont work, different plug, shape, costs etc.

 

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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:38 pm 
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camh1980 wrote:
Do what I did when I had my NA Fairlane, fit a trip computer from an NC III Fairlane as the calendar goes back to 1972, hence its the same calendar year as 2000,.

So if you run it off the year 1982, its the same calendar year as 2006.

EF/EL just wont work, different plug, shape, costs etc.


thats what i do. Trip computers are the same from the 88 NA right to the 1994 NC arn't they??

 

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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:18 pm 
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looks like ford weren't expecting these particular models to still be on the road by the year 2000. roflmao.
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