does anyone know if i can swap out my instrument cluster with a "good one"? i think mine has a short in it... and was wondering if i put a new one in does it have to be programmed/synced to the truck by the dealer? or is it plug and play!?!

 

Attached are shop manual pages, near bottom of each they refer to using the T4 to configure, transfer data, etc. Rover wants this to happens so odometers are not tinkered with.

 

Update: After a few weeks of fighting with the cluster floating in the car (unbolted and dash surround apart), so when an "episode" happened i could move it around to make it normal again... i finally did some further disgnostics... ie. poking and proding... it appears the connector was very loose (probably throwing off some of the pins), so i wedged some cut off zip ties in there as shims and it appears to work fine now! 2 weeks of driving around ok. i guess that was the problem! just a loose connection! hopefully.

 

Glad you found the issue.