InteriorDiscussion about interior modifications like dashboard swaps, seat replacements, or general interior repair.
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I got tired of my yellow guages that i cant ever seem to see, so i got some blue glow guages. anyone have any experience with these? they were only like 20 bucks so i figured why not. do they work good?
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i don't have a set, but i was wondering if the company where you got yours sells the glow gauges for the earlier model gauges? like the round gauges not the 90-92 gauges.
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Another board member (The Project) has them in his 89 'maro. He said he got his off ebay and you can choose either blue or green glow. PM him for more info.
Another board member (The Project) has them in his 89 'maro. He said he got his off ebay and you can choose either blue or green glow. PM him for more info.
Pics from his interior build.........
Yup those are mine
Got them off ebay. Nice unit. They just go OVER the original face and are held in with the factory clear face. They had a little box (about the size of your thumb nail) with a dial for either glowing blue or green. Mine is the blue.
Very happy with them. Took about 20 min to put in including cleaning the clear face with some plastic polish.
did you do anything to the needles? or are they just a dark spot on the blue? im trying to find a way to get the needle to glow too! looks good tho im excited
did you do anything to the needles? or are they just a dark spot on the blue? im trying to find a way to get the needle to glow too! looks good tho im excited
PM "The White Knight". He has some glowing needles that he made (I bleieve he stripped the needle down to clear (from red) and changed a buld to a blue LED). Not 100% sure how though (memory is going). He should be able to explain what he did.
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Those gauges look cool.
...can't wait to test them out....sometime next year.
Hope that squirt guns not for installing the gauges .
How did you know? It actually is for real though. I squirt my cats and my foster brother when im working haha.
Oh and thanks for the infor on The White Knight about his needles i PM'd him. hopefully he can tell me how. i want to get these things in! too bad im not home.
no they are sittin in my room back home along with my grant steering wheel, my billet grill, my racing seats, new headliner and some other stuff that needs to go in. sadly im at a military academy and cant own a car here yet so i have to wait until thanksgiving leave to install it all... if you dont want the 140 what to you want? it goes to 145 lol..
I have those same gauges mtflyboy... The po put them in and I'm not a huge fan. I think they look great during the day, but they don't seem to glow so good at night, and kind of look tacky. Maybe the po just did a crappy job with them, but I think I'm going to take them out. Also I've had nothing but trouble with the electrical to them, and currently they don't light up at all. Again, could be the po's fault when installing them, but I've yet to figure it out.
Got mine installed today, Very simple setup, gonna run with em for a while and will prob just swap out the leds next time. Yea their still a bit crooked, but im waiting to see how they look at night without the little relay that came with the gauges.
I have very similar gauges and am very impressed with how they look in car.....they have two color settings, blue and teal...also really makes car look good when you add the heater control and shifter indicator overlays to the equation.....not bad for $20 bucks, well worth the money!!
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Got mine installed today, Very simple setup, gonna run with em for a while and will prob just swap out the leds next time. Yea their still a bit crooked, but im waiting to see how they look at night without the little relay that came with the gauges.
Got mine installed today, Very simple setup, gonna run with em for a while and will prob just swap out the leds next time. Yea their still a bit crooked, but im waiting to see how they look at night without the little relay that came with the gauges.
Nope, I actually used it very well, just today on the way home from work they turned off during a red light and i thought it was just a loose wire but nope
They looked pretty good, enough to make me debate on ordering another set, but i might go with just buying the bulbs and doing that instead like i said.
I'd love a set of reverse glow gauges for my GTA, but I can't find anywhere that makes a 140mph speedo type for a Trans am. It's hard enough just to find the standard type for a Trans Am.....
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You can, there was a thread on here earlier about it as well. Try searching for it, if i recall it said the best bulbs where LED bulbs from an online store. If i can find it ill post up the link.
i recently installed a set from streetracerparts.com:
It seems like it is hard to see the needle on the gauges at night. Is it? Or is it just the picture that you have up there? I really, really like the way these look though so i may just go with them either way.
It seems like it is hard to see the needle on the gauges at night. Is it? Or is it just the picture that you have up there? I really, really like the way these look though so i may just go with them either way.
yes, that picture shows how hard it was to see. since then i've painted the needles a florescent orange and turn the cluster lights dimly. enough to see them. while i don't have a recent night shot, my web page shows the orange needles. eventually i'd like to replace the needles with some lexan ones and get a set of the small illuminators that someone else on these boards had done on a '92+, i believe.
yes, that picture shows how hard it was to see. since then i've painted the needles a florescent orange and turn the cluster lights dimly. enough to see them. while i don't have a recent night shot, my web page shows the orange needles. eventually i'd like to replace the needles with some lexan ones and get a set of the small illuminators that someone else on these boards had done on a '92+, i believe.
Thanks for the info, I like your idea a lot, but it seems like that might just be a little too involved for what I want to do. I think I'll just go with the other style that I've found when I do end up buying those and all. Thanks for the help!
...can't wait to test them out....sometime next year. 
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