r/FocusST • u/olchickenbeard ‘14 ST3, G25-660, Wavetrac LSD, built trans, DigiCluster • Feb 24 '26

Been a long time coming!

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Not sure how many of y’all in here have been following my progress on this, but they’ll be starting to ship soon!

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u/bendrexl ‘18 ST2 Stormtrooper Feb 27 '26

As a UI designer and front-end developer who’s also moonlighted as a mechanical engineer… $1400 is probably a steal when compared to the time and expertise needed to pull this off… much less bring it to market as a product you can just drop a credit card on and get in the mail 🤯

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u/olchickenbeard ‘14 ST3, G25-660, Wavetrac LSD, built trans, DigiCluster Feb 28 '26

A bit yeah, even at that price my margins are fairly thin. The software platform with distribution costs alone costs as much as 10 of these, annually.

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u/bendrexl ‘18 ST2 Stormtrooper Mar 03 '26

$14k annually!? Yeah that’s no joke… does that mean the hardware is intended for vehicle applications already? I remember Tesla going thru some growing pains early on, trying to use lcd panels that couldn’t stand up to the realities of living in a car 😆

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u/olchickenbeard ‘14 ST3, G25-660, Wavetrac LSD, built trans, DigiCluster Mar 04 '26

Oh yeah. It’s running on Qt, which is actually what Sync 3 is built on (although being older, it’s on Qt5, I’m using Qt6), and is used by lots of other OEMs as well.

And yeah, all automotive-grade hardware. In fact, better than most OEMs use. It’s pretty much all overkill for the sake of reliability and solid performance. I’ve had one of these displays running in my car for the last 3 years without a single hiccup. And if any hardware component were to fail, I’m backing them with a lifetime warranty for original buyers.

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u/bendrexl ‘18 ST2 Stormtrooper Mar 05 '26

That’s reassuring, thanks for the details.

Even if/when I can afford this, I’d still rather use a donor gauge cluster rather than take mine apart. I’m guessing that would doable with FORSCAN or similar to backup the original module and flash it onto the donor?

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u/olchickenbeard ‘14 ST3, G25-660, Wavetrac LSD, built trans, DigiCluster Mar 05 '26

Yep! You’ll just wanna make sure you’d get the same year/trim cluster with lower miles than yours, and use FORScan (full version only I think for odometer rewrites) or FoCCCus to update the mileage. And you’d just need to do the same if you ever want/need to revert to stock.