I have a 96 OB and it has a bad odometer. The car has over 350k miles and title branded with unknown mileage so no I'm not doing anything illegal. I tried replacing it and it works but the parking lights always stay on unless I put the old cluster back in. Anyone know the trick to this? Does it have to be programmed to the car? Any help is appreciated!

Hm I have a '96 Legacy, the cluster comes out pretty easily, just some electrical connectors (except I think some MT's used a cable driven speedo).

 

Usually the parking lights staying on thing is the switch on the top of the steering column getting switched on accidentally ...

I tried flipping it off and on but it didn't make a change. Hmmm....maybe I'll just try again.

Hm not sure what would be in the cluster itself that would make the parking lights stay on ... unless maybe the security system doesn't like it for some reason.

That's what I was wondering. I know older Ford's from the 90s have the security module in the cluster so I wondered if the Legacy might be the same.

I don't think Subaru ever did that, they use separate security modules by Alpine and Code Alarm for example. I can look in my manual later at the wiring diagram and try to see what in the instrument cluster could make the parking lights stay on.

 

I know there's a few connectors on the panel, can you identify which connector, when connected, makes the parking lights come on?

I believe there is a 4 pin on the speedo itself that causes it. I removed the new speedo from the cluster and installed it in the OEM cluster and had the same issue. If its not supposed to I guess it could be a bad speedo.

Does your 96 even have an alarm system?

Only 95 and 96 gauge clusters with the 140 mph speedo and white needles are compatible. Other ones won't work right/at all. The cluster has nothing to do with the parking lights, that's weird. But every time I take one of those out I bump the parking light switch on.

No its the right year and I even drove it to verify the speedo and od work correctlty. Weird. I have done the swap twice but maybe I just pulled a bonehead move.....twice. LOL I'll try it again this weekend and report back. Thanks for the feedback guys!

Edited November 21, 201213 yr by darkducati

Hm interesting ok well I will probably mosey on out to the garage this evening with some homebrew in hand and have a gander at the manual. I want to put in a switch for the FWD on my '96 tonight.

Hm yes I don't see anything in the wiring diagram that seems like it would impact the parking lights. For the speedo I see connections to VSS #2 and the ECU, and possibly one other connection for the tach.