how to lose orange and red interior lettering
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how to lose orange and red interior lettering
anybody done this? I dont want glowing gauges, or white face gauges, but I do want to lose the orange/red lettering on the gauges, and controls. What would be the best way to do this?
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you can change the bulbs that shine on the gagues to a more red bulb, like a red LED, you can change your needles to FD needles but then you will need a light to light the niddles up red, there is something online that you stick behind the needles to change the color , they have blue and all dif colors and i know they have red. a guy did it here. he changed his needles to FD needles. i'll try to find it
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You can't unless you replace the ENTIRE panel.
You need to understand how "backlighting" works.
The plastic panel is tinted (orange in this case), and the entire front is covered with black paint.
To get the numbers and stuff to light through, the front black paint in uncovered.
This is how everything shines orange.
Now there are blue (high lights) and yellow (shift up light) "lights", and these parts of the panel are those exact colors.
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You need to understand how "backlighting" works.
The plastic panel is tinted (orange in this case), and the entire front is covered with black paint.
To get the numbers and stuff to light through, the front black paint in uncovered.
This is how everything shines orange.
Now there are blue (high lights) and yellow (shift up light) "lights", and these parts of the panel are those exact colors.
-Ted
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i was talking about the bulbs that shine on the gague cluster, i know they dont shine from behind, my dad did it on his corrado. he got some red LED's and had them shine down on the gauge cluster
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red leds wouldnt help me anyway, I dont want it to light up red, it already does that, they are even red when the lights are off, thats the part I don't like. SO I have to figure out some way to make new panels?
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Originally Posted by 1SxyRXy
i was talking about the bulbs that shine on the gague cluster, i know they dont shine from behind, my dad did it on his corrado. he got some red LED's and had them shine down on the gauge cluster
but to answer the original post'rs question.
The only way to get rid of the orange lettering is to replace the stock panels
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I have used 3M multilayer vinyl for replacement panels on Logicons, but that wouldn't work for gauges.
I suppose I would some acrylic sheet and 3M DBEF (Dual Bighness Enhancing Film) to start with and then probably screen on the black background and lettering.
I suppose I would some acrylic sheet and 3M DBEF (Dual Bighness Enhancing Film) to start with and then probably screen on the black background and lettering.
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Originally Posted by 1SxyRXy
i was talking about the bulbs that shine on the gague cluster, i know they dont shine from behind, my dad did it on his corrado. he got some red LED's and had them shine down on the gauge cluster
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Originally Posted by NZConvertible
If you're really serious about this, instead of making incorrect assumptions based on a completely different car, you should pull out and disassemble the gauge cluter so you can see for yourself how the lighting really works. Listen to what Ted and Mark have told you.
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ok but even so, the panel is tinted, per what ted said.....its not like the tint goes away when the lights are off. The panel itself is a base orange, with black over it, its not clear with colored lighting. Thats why they are orange when off, and just brighter orange when lights are on. To get it white youd have to have a white (or clear i guess) panel itself.
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i think he wants the lettering in white and then turning red (or whatever color) at night. So, pretty much the custom fab they've been describing is what you need. And then sticking red leds behind. (current bulbs are white, btw)
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yeah ebay has some nice guages. sound like what your looking for. I jsut ordered mine!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWN%3AIT
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Originally Posted by MidwestTurboII
ok but even so, the panel is tinted, per what ted said.....its not like the tint goes away when the lights are off. The panel itself is a base orange, with black over it, its not clear with colored lighting. Thats why they are orange when off, and just brighter orange when lights are on. To get it white youd have to have a white (or clear i guess) panel itself.
and I dont want glo gauges
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You should try and live with it.
Even if you do get an overlay, you're still required to pull the needles off the gauges to stick the new color overlay on.
90% of the time, people **** up their gauges cause the needles don't go back on right, and the gauge(s) are damaged or the needles don't sit right.
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Even if you do get an overlay, you're still required to pull the needles off the gauges to stick the new color overlay on.
90% of the time, people **** up their gauges cause the needles don't go back on right, and the gauge(s) are damaged or the needles don't sit right.
-Ted
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how about this: very carefully hand-paint all of the "text" on your guage face with a semi-transparent white paint. transparent enough to let orange light thru when the backlights are on (although it might come through a little pink), but opaque enough to look white in the daytime. it would probably also be impossibly difficult to hand paint all the info on the guages without looking like garbage... but technically this would get the job done, yes?
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i like the gauges... my only thought is some way to make them brighter, they are pretty dim unless its DARK DARK out...
i swapped out the #158 bulbs from the twist in bases for #194 (higher wattage) bulbs, but theres no difference...
i swapped out the #158 bulbs from the twist in bases for #194 (higher wattage) bulbs, but theres no difference...
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