Clocks / cluster.

Can someone advise me my clocks on my 88 gti cabriolet  are not well and I now live in New Zealand so parts are a little harder to source.
I currently have motometer clocks and I can source some vdo ones but will these be a straight plug in or are the plugs on loom different.
Many thanks.
Martin. 

Hi Martin

They should be interchangeable if they look identical. Have you got pics of the two clocks? If we see those we can let you know. 

The only difference you may have is that the Motometer normally have a nozzle for the vacuum lead which VDO sometimes don't have which is for the mfa 

Not well? as what is the issue. Fuel/Water gauges
Tach, speedo?  

Broken traces, Bad 10V stabilizers, flaky cold solder joints on the inside of the fuel and water gauge, bad grounds, and flaky 12v supply are quite common.

In the Archive section I have a few how-to's that tell you how to repair, replace, plump and back feed to various parts of the cluster….

The Motometer and the VDO gauge set have a white

Ones from the US are different, The VDO was pre-90 and there were 2 styles ones with upshift lights and ones without,,,
The MotoMeter had air bag lamps and was used from 1990-1993.  None of the ones on the US had the MFA

If you take the shroud off the connector port, Carefully lift the mylar…. the pads are labeled in german as to what they do.    If your Moto set reads like the VDO no worries.

all the mk1 clocks will swap so long as they are the correct type to fit your dashboard, the main features will all work fine. just things liek the MFA extras which may or may not work depending on age of car, age of clocks and what reverse switch you have.

mk2 polo clocks fit and work too, though you shoudl swap the speedometer over as the small block ones slightly different calibration