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Photos for installing White dials
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 3:45 pm
by MrFT000
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
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:33 pm
by kazbah
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
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:37 pm
by FTO338
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.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:38 pm
by EURO
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?
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:39 pm
by afterburner
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...
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:57 pm
by Grue
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!
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:16 pm
by kazbah
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.....
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:31 pm
by MrFT000
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!)
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:45 pm
by EURO
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.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:33 pm
by MrFT000
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 10:21 pm
by BuCkEt
That should really match the outside paint scheme of the car.
At least you didn't break 'em
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 7:13 am
by afterburner
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...
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 7:35 am
by MrFT000
yeah i find that as well.
i turn down the lights, to make the numbers darker at those times.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 7:43 am
by Boris
What can I say.... Rice....
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 7:54 am
by afterburner
Bah I don't have a dash dimmer dial. Curse you GPvR lack of extras!
Pfft rice
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:23 am
by Supplanter
Rice is nice.
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:21 am
by MrFT000
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
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 12:18 pm
by FTO338
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
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 12:36 pm
by afterburner
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...
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 12:38 pm
by Boris
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!
