Today I visited the shop that would perform the installation of the Active Info Display for me. There were simply too many hurdles I would have to overcome to successfully complete it myself.

There is not much to show other than a before and after picture.

Before cluster replacement.
Before cluster replacement.
After cluster replacement.
After cluster replacement.

They did a great job. The cluster looks as good as new. I really like it, especially that I can always see the exact digital vehicle speed without having to navigate to the vehicle info view.

While I was there, I also asked them to remove component protection from the new gateway I prepared. They even installed it, and it worked without any issues. I still need to adjust a few settings that did not match the old gateway. The gateway is easily accessible under the steering wheel, so the installation was not too difficult.

Location of the gateway module.
Location of the gateway module.

Autoscan

I created another autoscan and adaption channel maps using VCDS. You can find these here. It includes all the coding changes up to this point.

part 1 - part 2