Ive decided to flip the screen on my scangauge II
I got the polarized film from garage 1217 www.garage1217.com

Tools your gonna need
Small Fillips head screw driver
razor blade

Material your gonna need
Polarized film

oh and this is just for reference. I in no way take responsibility if you mess up your stuff.
good luck guys!

Start here


Take these four screws


Take back piece off


Take this piece off


Peal screen off.
Use razor blade to take off screen
Mine Came off in two pieces


Put new piece on .
(i had to go back in forth to my car and back to find out just how much dark i wanted. You rotate it from side to side to see how dark you want. and remember one side is sticky one side is not.)



This is what it looks like done.

 

someone should move it to the diy thread. btw good job

 

I've actually been thinking about doing this for a long time. The main reason I havent is because I feel like i wont be able to read it during the day. My HVAC is defiantly harder to make out...

Have any daylight pics?

Good diy though :-)

 

I'll take some today. and to my surprise . since its in the cubby hole the sun doesnt get to it that much and i was able to see it during the day really well . but the main issue i have is that at 3 blue with everthing at zero. its near impossible to see. so i got a good color with 3 blue and 3 grean . all the other colors are great.

 

I know it is your camera phone, but why does it look so dim?

 

i think its just the color choice. the reds and green are bright. but the blue wasnt to bright. i used 3 blue and 3 green to get a pretty cool color bright color. but the red and green were pretty bright.

 

if its not too much trouble, would you please take a day pic of 3 red 0 blue 0 green?

 

oh and speaking of red, does any one else think that the red is way more of an orange color?

It does not match my LED swap at all so I actually have my SG randomly set to blue lol

I've always wanted to send my SG to the LEDmod guys to have a matching red put in... but that would cost money haha

 

thanks for telling me, tech'ed

 

This 3 blue 3 green. Ill take the one you wanted tomorrow. i ran out of sunlight. i work graveyard so i was sleeping most the day so ill do it tomorrow.

 

looks good!

 

like your shifter, where did you get it?

 

I got it at autozone for ten bucks. took some fab to make it work but i really like it. if you dont have any at the autozone near you . my boy works there so maybe i can get you one.

 

Eh, just curious.

 

also.. if you rotate the polarized film to not be completely dark.. it'll affect it as well..

basically.. the more dark you have the background.. the more light will be able to shine thru the normal digits...

it's a little see-saw action goin on.. darker background, brighter digits... not so dark background... well.. not so bright digits.

in other words.. you should've made it the darkest to begin with..

now the fun thing would be to have the polarized film completely 45 degrees so the digits and the background would be the exact same brightness... leaving you completely blind... and the film to be completely useless..

 

Yeah i rotated it and love the setting im at. took me three times and three cuts to get it to my liking but i got it.

 

So you rotate the film depending on how dark you want it? I'm a little confused.

 

when you get the film and do it . it makes sense. i really dont konw how else to describe it.

 

agreed...what's this rotating film? i thought that you could only put it on one way and that's straight...

 

it comes in a pretty big film. one side sticky one side glossy. but if you put it on the screen and rotate clockwise and counter clockwise it changes the polarity of the film and changes color