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[Sam]

Not sure how you do it, but DON'T take the needles off!!!

Usually there are screws on the back that just allow the whole gauge bit to fall out..at least on a gen 2 there was.

Good luck with it.

I'll have another go at it but I won't pull the needle out. I've heard your not suppose to... Thanks mate I'll see how I go..

[SAV84C]

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[Sam]

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Thanks mate. I had a bit more of a fiddle and the results are better. But still need a bit of work to do it properly.. I'll put some pics and more info up later..

Cheers. Sam

[Sam]

Alrighty, after a bit of fiddling and time today, I removed the green coloring from the back of the speedo dials.
I used:
Phillips head screw driver
Stubby Phillips head s/d
Girlfriends nail polish remover
Cotton buds and balls
Any colour Sharpie of your choice. I used Red

All I did was take the dash right off, followed by the speedo cluster.
I then took the back off the cluster, then the front so that the needles on the cluster were moveable by hand.
I unscrewed the 8 small screws on the face of the dials being very careful of the needles and not to break the dial covers..

Once the screws are out, carefully bend the face of the dials away from the cluster around the needle. Then apply the nail polish remover with the cotton buds in the hard spots, and the cotton balls in the easy parts.

I didn't want to remove the needles, so I carefully and precisely cut the dial cover so that I could get to the really hard parts. Probably not Recommended but it works..
Then, once the green comes off the numbers and such, I colored the white parts in with a red sharpie/permo marker.

I also got the clock and odometer display to change from green to red. There is a small green plastic strip straight underneath the screen. I pushed a screwdriver through the bottom of the cluster where the bulb goes into to push the plastic strip from underneath and once out, apply your acetone and rub off. Once dry, colour in neatly with your sharpie without leaving marks.
Then put back in carefully making sure you don't break, bend etc the needles or dial cover.

Replace all the screws and clips and your done. Put back all your dash, plugs and screws..

All done, this is how mine turned out. I replaced the dodgy blue LEDs that blew with normal Narva T10 globes.





Once again, using an iPhone, much better in real life.

Cheers
Sam

[Sam]

Looks good mate, hope it's not that bright in real life though..wouldn't be able to see at night..

Do you have any hot spots? If so, I believe you can just put a dab of a marker on the tip of the led and this will spread the light more evenly.

It is fairly bright when the dimmer is at full, but I have it at about half now and it's good.
I am using normal halogen t10 globes and not LEDs bug it does look like there is hotspots, but it's really not too bad..
Does the marker trick work with the stock bulbs as well??

[Morgan]

Nice work!
Can you change the colour of the HU? Need a Pioneer

Girlfriend

Pics?

Whut...

[Sam]

Nice work!
Can you change the colour of the HU? Need a Pioneer



Pics?

Whut...

No unfortunately (unless I haven't worked out how to) I can't change the colour of the h/u. I'll start saving for a DVD player with red buttons though. Haha


Pics?

Whut...



??????? Huh???

Oh I got ya morgs... Haha

[Morgan]

Here's one for ya. Has about 15 different shades of red

[Sam]

Not sure about the stock bulbs mate, could give the tip of them a really light sand with some fine grit sand paper to roughen it a little and stop the direction so much. I have't played around with it much so not sure about that one.

I might try it oneday when I can be bothered to take apart the dash again... I had to take it apart and back together 4 times today...
Cheers for the tip but

[Sam]

Here's one for ya. Has about 15 different shades of red

A choice of about 113 different colours?? I can think of about 12 different colours how the hell can they come up with 113?

That would be an awesome unit but..
You love that Ryda shop too! It's got some good deals...

[Morgan]

Haha yes they do.

That's the unit I just installed. It has a spectrum of colours and you can just scroll through them, hence the choice of 113 colours!

[Sam]

Yeah it does get a bit old. Only do it if the hot spots bother you..no point otherwise.

No worries

It's not bad when it gets dark, but I can defiantly put up with it. And anythings better than the stock green colour..

[Sam]

Haha yes they do.

That's the unit I just installed. It has a spectrum of colours and you can just scroll through them, hence the choice of 113 colours!

Yeah right. Sounds good!
I'm already a bit sick of my pioneer unit. Its very difficult to use the USB part. Every time you change to USB, it goes back to the first song on the USB stick.. And the random feature doesn't really work either. But, a much better improvement from the stock unit. Just need some decent speakers.
Need a DVD screen stat!

[Sam]

Yeah the stock green is annoying..I haven't got around to changing it in my current car yet..keep thinking about it then going nah CBF'd lol

Plus I want to be able to do the climate control etc as well.

Yeah climate control is a bit tough. I think you need really bright LEDs for it to work properly. I used the red and It leaves no spots but with blue it is very bad.
Thats why I changed back to red. But it's really easy to change the lights in it. Just a matter of a few screws and a bit of time.

Plus, red is better on the eye!

[Sam]

And red adds Kw's! Just haven't had the spare time to pull the dash apart lately. Maybe over easter some time.

I could feel the extra speed coming home from soccer training tonight

Red=Fast!