I recently purchased an entire gauge cluster from what I believe was a 1986 928, in order to swap the 160mph speedometer into my 1980 85mph cluster. I haven't yet pulled the pod out, but I'm wondering if the speedometers are a direct swap, or if I would be better off changing the entire cluster? There are some differences (ABS light, OXS light in different place, etc), but I imagine the plugs would be the same? Thanks in advance-

Andrew Schauer
1980 5-speed

 

andrew i was looking through the www.928intl.com catalog and it shows speedoes 78-84 and 85-86 it seems it was only meant for the 2 years but double check

LOu
83 928 5speed

 

I know this thread is so old that it is covered by spider webs, but I figured I add to to it, since it is the only thread that came up when searching for "speedometer swap" In the title. Other searches have also not turned up much hard info, so I am wondering if someone has since maybe gone down the road of replacing an '80 "nanny speedo" with the regular (160? 170?) version, and which years might be interchangeable? As far as I know only 1980-81 had this mandated dashboard nanny. I don't think that the 78-84 speedo as mentioned above will work, since I am pretty certain 78-79 is different.

Hope it was ok to resurrect this thread and thanks for your help already in advance,
-Marcus

 

I swapped mine ('81) with one from and 85/86. The hardest part was rolling up the mileage on the new one. The one I bought had 40k on it and the '81 had 64k. It is not real difficult, but fiddly.