[DrinkMore]

Tired of the drab boring blue? Go white

Ill have a few pics to put up to turn stock guages, to white instead of that nasty horrible blue.

 

[DrinkMore]

Regular blue

 

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White guage

 

[TaurusGuy]

You gonna tell us how?

 

[DrinkMore]

Well, here is the result of about 3 hours worth of work. Now that I know what needs to be done and how things work, if I ever have to do it again it should not take more than 2 hours.

OUT WITH THE BLUE! WOOHOO! The color you see is regular incadescent bulbs that are stock in the cluster for illumination. Whenever I get round to ordering the white LEDS, it will make a more dramatic improvement.

Any questions?

Here are the pics, enjoy!

 

[TaurusGuy]

Originally posted by L0pan@Jan 25 2004, 08:23 PM
Any questions?

Yea, like I asked before, how did you do it? Thanks!

 

[DrinkMore]

Pretty simple. I had 4 other clusters lying around. One was a "tester" and for parts incase I broke anything. I just decided earlier to day to see what happens when I play around with the faces. Come to find out, making them "clear/white" is as simple as scratching off a lotto ticket!

I didn't try this before because I thought the blue was "built in" and could not be removed. Actually its a very thing layer on the back of the guages and scraps of really easy with a one minute soaking of nail polish remover. After that, you just take a q-tip dunked in nail polish remover and clean it up before you put it back in place.

Thats it really.

 

[TaurusGuy]

WIll that nail polish remover damage the front of the faces, or did you even cover them up?

 

[DrinkMore]

If you leave it sit, it will. I used it to clean up some "greasy" spots and didnt have a problem. I didn't cover the faces either. I just flipped them over and scratched away.

 

[TaurusGuy]

Yea, doesn't work for Gen I-II faces, just for everyones FYI.

 

[qwertz9586]

Do you have a pictuer of the back of the G3/4 guages? he back of the G1/2 guages have the blue paint/plastic on the backside of the actual guages.