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Old 06-18-2014, 10:36 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Brad370 View Post
The ECM sends the current gear to the dash repeatedly (every 55ms on my manual Z). So the problem is that even though you could send out messages disguised to look like the message from the ECU to trick it into displaying the current gear, it would immediately be replaced with the next message from the actual ECU.
Wouldn't that message be the next gear you are in, or do you mean it would keep cycling between "D" and a numeric gear value?
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