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polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:37 pm
by Paride89
Hello dear friends,

I need your precious help, I just bought a 2017 Polo 6c 1.4 tdi for a good price with no multifunction steering wheel and no maxidot cluster. I thought as my old 6r i could retrofit all this important things but I spoke with an Italian Shop who is specialized on retrofits and they said is impossible to swap the cluster and for the MFSW is going to be really expensive. Do you confirm this? For me it's a bad feeling hold a plastic steering wheel with no buttons and also having the mib2 unit don't have the buttons on the steering wheel and don't have the cluster with all datas is really weird to me...

Thank You

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 10:57 pm
by iichel
mfsw depends on the bcm thats in your car
swapping the cluster probably needs a new cluster but is not impossible

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:38 am
by giannis20vt
Paride89 wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:37 pm Hello dear friends,

I need your precious help, I just bought a 2017 Polo 6c 1.4 tdi for a good price with no multifunction steering wheel and no maxidot cluster. I thought as my old 6r i could retrofit all this important things but I spoke with an Italian Shop who is specialized on retrofits and they said is impossible to swap the cluster and for the MFSW is going to be really expensive. Do you confirm this? For me it's a bad feeling hold a plastic steering wheel with no buttons and also having the mib2 unit don't have the buttons on the steering wheel and don't have the cluster with all datas is really weird to me...

Thank You
Hello,
i have done both the retrofits on my Polo 6C MY2016.
Please read my tread in order to learn some information.
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=76538

Please read those treads also, the provide information about the retrofits you asked.
Retrofit MFSW (no CC) to Polo 6C
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=74761

Instrument cluster swap Polo 6C
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=69644

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 9:00 am
by Paride89
Thank you for your reply, just few questions, regarding the cluster do you still have errors on it? About the Steering wheel, if I add some with CC buttons on it does they work? I already have Cruise Control by factory.

Thank you
giannis20vt wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:38 am
Paride89 wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:37 pm Hello dear friends,

I need your precious help, I just bought a 2017 Polo 6c 1.4 tdi for a good price with no multifunction steering wheel and no maxidot cluster. I thought as my old 6r i could retrofit all this important things but I spoke with an Italian Shop who is specialized on retrofits and they said is impossible to swap the cluster and for the MFSW is going to be really expensive. Do you confirm this? For me it's a bad feeling hold a plastic steering wheel with no buttons and also having the mib2 unit don't have the buttons on the steering wheel and don't have the cluster with all datas is really weird to me...

Thank You
Hello,
i have done both the retrofits on my Polo 6C MY2016.
Please read my tread in order to learn some information.
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=76538

Please read those treads also, the provide information about the retrofits you asked.
Retrofit MFSW (no CC) to Polo 6C
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=74761

Instrument cluster swap Polo 6C
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=69644

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 10:19 am
by giannis20vt
Paride89 wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 9:00 am Thank you for your reply, just few questions, regarding the cluster do you still have errors on it? About the Steering wheel, if I add some with CC buttons on it does they work? I already have Cruise Control by factory.

Thank you
Hi, no i don't have any errors from the cluster. Everything are working fine.

I don't have CC on my Polo, but i think it will work the CC from the buttons on the steering wheel.

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2024 7:13 pm
by Paride89
So do you suggest me to buy a MFSW with CC buttons? Last thing, do you have any tutorial to do all this retrofits?
giannis20vt wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 10:19 am
Paride89 wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 9:00 am Thank you for your reply, just few questions, regarding the cluster do you still have errors on it? About the Steering wheel, if I add some with CC buttons on it does they work? I already have Cruise Control by factory.

Thank you
Hi, no i don't have any errors from the cluster. Everything are working fine.

I don't have CC on my Polo, but i think it will work the CC from the buttons on the steering wheel.

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:07 am
by giannis20vt
Paride89 wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 7:13 pm So do you suggest me to buy a MFSW with CC buttons? Last thing, do you have any tutorial to do all this retrofits?
giannis20vt wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 10:19 am
Paride89 wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 9:00 am Thank you for your reply, just few questions, regarding the cluster do you still have errors on it? About the Steering wheel, if I add some with CC buttons on it does they work? I already have Cruise Control by factory.

Thank you
Hi, no i don't have any errors from the cluster. Everything are working fine.

I don't have CC on my Polo, but i think it will work the CC from the buttons on the steering wheel.
Like I said, I don't have CC nor ACC in my car. I bought a MFSW with buttons that include buttons for ACC, and it works fine, just the buttons for ACC don't respond to anything. So I think it might work with your car too.

There are tutorials for the MFSW all over the internet, this one is right to the point.
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=74761

For the cluster swap, the procedure is easy, you just swap the cluster. But the coding and all the other things you have to do (remove componet protection, tranfer all the data from the old to the new cluster) is something that only a guy with ODIS and online connection with the VW servers can do.

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:37 pm
by Paride89
giannis20vt wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:07 am
Paride89 wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 7:13 pm So do you suggest me to buy a MFSW with CC buttons? Last thing, do you have any tutorial to do all this retrofits?
giannis20vt wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 10:19 am

Hi, no i don't have any errors from the cluster. Everything are working fine.

I don't have CC on my Polo, but i think it will work the CC from the buttons on the steering wheel.
Like I said, I don't have CC nor ACC in my car. I bought a MFSW with buttons that include buttons for ACC, and it works fine, just the buttons for ACC don't respond to anything. So I think it might work with your car too.

There are tutorials for the MFSW all over the internet, this one is right to the point.
https://www.uk-polos.net/viewtopic.php?t=74761

For the cluster swap, the procedure is easy, you just swap the cluster. But the coding and all the other things you have to do (remove componet protection, tranfer all the data from the old to the new cluster) is something that only a guy with ODIS and online connection with the VW servers can do.
so the cluster must be new or can be used?

Re: polo 6c - retrofit Help

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:16 am
by giannis20vt
I did the swap with a used Cluster 2 year ago.
I don't know what applies to 2025 because VW changes the procedures every year and tends to make them even more complex.