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Guage CLUSTERS MODS NEEDS SOME IDEAS PEOPLE HELP ME OUT!!!

Old Mar 26, 2008 | 08:44 PM
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Default Guage CLUSTERS MODS NEEDS SOME IDEAS PEOPLE HELP ME OUT!!!

I need some Ideas On the mods on a guage cluster did mine wasnt so impressive..... its all green with white .
Old Mar 26, 2008 | 10:39 PM
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Do you have any pics?
Old Mar 26, 2008 | 10:50 PM
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It's "gauge" by the way and typing in ALL CAPS is considered yelling.
You should try switching the white to blue.
Old Mar 27, 2008 | 04:27 PM
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i want to paint my tc two tone color black and green i dont think it would look right if i have every lighting green and just the guage blue ..... it wouldn't match with the whole car
Old Mar 27, 2008 | 11:33 PM
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Do the numbers in white and the lines green. Mine are red and white like that and it looks effin sick!

Old Mar 28, 2008 | 05:17 PM
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Thanks man that is a good idea i had itthe other way around green letters and while lines
Old Mar 28, 2008 | 05:19 PM
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Did you have to put in the resistors on there as well?
Old Mar 28, 2008 | 05:44 PM
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Nope just switched the LED's. Those aren't mine but mine are the exact same way but my pics are blurry so whoever's pic that is don't flip out. I'll take another of mine when it gets dark and put mine up. The only difference is the mileage.
Old Mar 28, 2008 | 06:22 PM
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how long did it take you to do all this.... it only took me about 15 mins once i got it off and starting soldering it was easy. I'm pretty good with my electronics.
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A guy in my club did it for me because I had no idea what the hell I was doing. The only thing that was kinda tricky was the film he has is red while there is no light behind it but when we shined a light through it it went pink so he had to double layer it. Plus he was having a little trouble cutting it for the lines on the Km part because the ticks are so close to some of the numbers.
Old Mar 28, 2008 | 10:05 PM
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oh... i see well ima try to redue the whole thing again i really didn't like the way it came out. ima try doing all white and the needles and numbers green see how that turns out. just paint the trim of the guages green.
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Yeah i'm going to be painting my bezel too.
Old Mar 29, 2008 | 12:25 AM
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when i did mine, it took about 5 hours because of trial and error soldering...first time soldering something small on a board, and some of my initial contact points from the LED to the board were bad so i had to redo those...but overall great result and mines Blue lines and white numbers/letters...like the pic above with the red and white, but blue and white i also did white needles and the odometer LCD filter flip trick to match.

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Originally Posted by deflaytedwayz1
Yeah i'm going to be painting my bezel too.
What color?
Old Mar 29, 2008 | 04:01 PM
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RS1 red along with a bunch of other interior stuff.
Old Mar 29, 2008 | 06:44 PM
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How did you manage to switch the colors on the odometer?
Old Mar 31, 2008 | 07:17 PM
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What do you mean. Everything that is red is a red film cut to only be behind the lines.
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 04:43 PM
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what about the numbers will that need a led or what/
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All of the LED's that you don't want orange need to be changed to white and then trim some color film for wherever you want it a different color and voila! I also had some of my dummy lights changed to either white or red
Old Apr 1, 2008 | 07:30 PM
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the red ones look sick.... nice

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