Photos for installing White dials

MrFT000 · Post by **MrFT000** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:45 pm

Has anyone done up a DIY guide for installing the White dials.
or if someone has taken a heap of pics during installation, can they please let me know so they can send them to me.

thanks

Post by **kazbah** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:33 pm

Damn, you are about 2 weeks too late. I installed mine but didnt take photos. All I can offer is advice if you are stuck.. Sorry

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:37 pm

Hmmm Grant doesn't your come with instructions? If not i've got a copy of version 3 which i can scan it & email it to you.

EURO · Post by **EURO** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:38 pm

I gave you instructions grant?

Give me a call if you need too.

its very easy...

kmc also has a guide.

Which part are you having dramas with?

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:39 pm

kazbah wrote:Damn, you are about 2 weeks too late. I installed mine but didnt take photos. All I can offer is advice if you are stuck.. Sorry

Same.

The hardest bit I found was getting the little black stickers which came with mine to block out the light from the centres in the right places - very fiddly. Other than that it was pretty simple...

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:57 pm

I've got a quick walkthrough i wrote out for a mate the other day for easy-fit dials. No pics though. Let us know if u want it!

Post by **kazbah** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:16 pm

afterburner wrote:
kazbah wrote:Damn, you are about 2 weeks too late. I installed mine but didnt take photos. All I can offer is advice if you are stuck.. Sorry
Same.

The hardest bit I found was getting the little black stickers which came with mine to block out the light from the centres in the right places - very fiddly. Other than that it was pretty simple...

That was by far the shitist job!!! I think I took longer over them than over the whole install, including taking the dash apart and putting it back together.....

MrFT000 · Post by **MrFT000** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:31 pm

yeah Dave i got the instructions, but pics would help heaps.
especially with the little black sticker things...

and also the idea of cutting my existing dials (making them unusuable somewhat scares me!)

EURO · Post by **EURO** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:45 pm

well u can get standard replacements for about 3-5 pound from Uk i think?

But u can try putting them over the old ones, but i odnt think they will light up well..

the black stickers arent drastically important.. they just wrap around the base with the black end facing the way the needle is...
just to stop too much light from getting through. just make sure the needle has free range otherwise they wont work properly.

MrFT000 · Post by **MrFT000** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:33 pm

well thanks to kazbah and euro

they are in and lookin good.
i still need to tweak them a bit in where some light is gettin through, but im pretty happy with how they turned out overall.

BuCkEt · Post by **BuCkEt** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:21 pm

That should really match the outside paint scheme of the car.

At least you didn't break 'em

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:13 am

Your car and my car are now looking very similar! Or they would do if I still had the stock bodykit. Sometimes I wish I still did....

Here's my gauges - they both look good eh?

I alaso have a small problem with light getting around the needle cups, but I'm too lazy to dismantle the dash again to fix it. The only other problem I find with the gauges is that they can be hard to read when it's not quite dark but you have the headlights on. In full dark or light they're all good...

MrFT000 · Post by **MrFT000** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:35 am

yeah i find that as well.
i turn down the lights, to make the numbers darker at those times.

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:43 am

What can I say.... Rice....

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:54 am

Bah I don't have a dash dimmer dial. Curse you GPvR lack of extras!

Pfft rice

Post by **Supplanter** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:23 am

Rice is nice.

MrFT000 · Post by **MrFT000** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:21 am

Boris wrote:What can I say.... Rice....

Well if that isnt the pot calling the kettle black, i dont know what is !

Its not rice, its Race-Spec!

Race, not rice

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:18 pm

afterburner wrote:Bah I don't have a dash dimmer dial. Curse you GPvR lack of extras!

Pfft rice

None of the FTO actually came with it from factory, but in Oz you have to install a dimmer as part of compliance.

Rice is good, it give you Carbo ehehehehee especially the one that cooked with NOS

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:36 pm

Oh ok, I thought that none of them have it, but since I've never been in a GPX I wasn't sure. I was actually looking at the above pics trying to find it...

Compliance over here is so much easier...

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:38 pm

MrFT000 wrote:Well if that isnt the pot calling the kettle black, i dont know what is !

Its not rice, its Race-Spec!

Race, not rice

hehehe... i know... i got more rice than you mate! I even have floor neons. c'mon!