Hello guys, I'm new to the forum and wanted to ask a couple of questions.

What I'm planning to do is to swap the dashboard from the 6n2 facelifted model to the 6N.
Before I do anything I want to hear other people's experiences, from people who have done it or know how to do it.

First of all my polo is not a 6N, rather it is a 6KV. It is a polo classic. Second, it is a diesel version with an SDI engine in it. Third is, it has an AC in it so I assume that complicates things a little bit.

I researched a bit and found a couple of forum posts about this, and few people have done it but as I saw none of them did that to a diesel.
My first question is, does it matter if I take the dashboard and interior dashboard loom from a gasoline car, will it fit my car?
The second question is, does it matter if I take a tachometer from a gasoline 6n2 car and put it into my diesel? Do I need to rewire some wires for everything to work or gasoline and diesel tachometers are completely different internally?
I read that I need tachometers from the 1998 year or so with white background. Fortunately, in my country those are really easy to find but only for petrol models, I don't think I will be able to find any of those for diesel models. Also, my tacho connector is white, it is not blue, does that makes things more difficult ?

Because my car has AC I would like to keep that functionality. My question is, do 6n2 and 6n share the same firewall hole for AC pipes? I know I need to buy the whole ventilation duct from the 6n2 but will my AC fit inside it and be compatible with the hole in the firewall?


As for the wiring, I know there are a lot of things to be rewired but I have all the tools for soldering, splicing, and other things required for the wiring and I'm pretty comfortable doing it so there wouldn't be a problem with that.

This is how my dashboard looks in my polo. It has the same tachometer and has power windows also (picture from the Internet)




This is the dashboard I want to put in:

Edited 11 October, 20223 yr by LoOdaK

The 6k dashboard looks like the 6n one, but it's different in pretty much every dimension, so I can't really see it working. If I wanted to sharpen mine up, I'd probably be looking at a 6kv2 Cordoba dashboard. I'm not sure how you'd get on with electrics though as the SDI's are very basic on that front, and I think the petrols have a fair bit more going off. 

 

Edited 11 October, 20223 yr by Yeti

Well at my local junkyard I found polo classic which has 6n2 dashboard so I thought it should fit.
Apparently they were facelifted in the year 2000 or so, and they produced them with the dashboard from the image below.

This is the photo of it.
It looks like it is in an awesome condition and it is selling for parts so I could get everything from it, and as I can see it has AC as well. Only problem is that it is petrol. Would that make significant difference for dashboard wiring ? As I said earlier I have experience wiring things, not a problem but I just want to be sure it will fit.

There is a difference in the measurement between the door frames between your car and a 6N2, the other thing to consider is you will also need the door cards as the end of the dash is a different profile

28 minutes ago, nige8021 said:

There is a difference in the measurement between the door frames between your car and a 6N2, the other thing to consider is you will also need the door cards as the end of the dash is a different profile

I could get parts from polo classic. Photo above is from polo classic from junkyard, I could get door cards and everything else from it. Could that work out ?

It should bolt straight in as long as you get all the heater ducts, etc..... I don't know what wiring is going to be like though sorry.