flyboy Posted October 27, 2013 Author Share Posted October 27, 2013 (edited) Hi NeiI, I would suggest people buy their own gauge faces from Black Cat Customs, I will advise which type to get, if needed. The gauge faces take about 3-4 weeks to come from The States and are about £125 duty paid Needles can be hard to come by depending on what is wanted and would have to be here prior to the job starting, I have some sources for these but at the moment they are either from across the pond again or Europe. The LED change and the calibration would take me a week or two depending on other commitments. I have a spare set of clocks etc which could be loaned out if you use the car as a daily driver. I could put a kit of LED's together for you to do it yourself but you will need a digital temperature controlled solder station and very good soldering skills and I would suggest a spare speedo cluster to practice on...... Your not going to do this with a £5.00 iron from B&Q you will need something like this http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5d37324a18 A video from Bob at Gaugecraft who was very helpful in getting this up and running, showing how small these SMD's are Edited October 27, 2013 by flyboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slosh Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I really like the flashing tacho for the gear change and the led rear indicators. What have u done about the red fog light? Got some bright red LEDs I presume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanHill Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Bose hu looks soo much better in blue haa! Orher stuff looks great to dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyboy Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Bose hu looks soo much better in blue haa! Orher stuff looks great to dude! It does look so much better but its a one off. Its just not worth it if your not doing it yourself as you can get a new head unit for what it would cost. The red with the blue was due to running low on LED's of the correct size but it looks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyboy Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 I really like the flashing tacho for the gear change and the led rear indicators. What have u done about the red fog light? Got some bright red LEDs I presume? Yeah bright and overdriven. Passed the MOT no problem the tester just commented "diddn't realise these came with LED's as an option" Hethought they were totally OEM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slosh Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I really like the flashing tacho for the gear change and the led rear indicators. What have u done about the red fog light? Got some bright red LEDs I presume? Yeah bright and overdriven. Passed the MOT no problem the tester just commented "diddn't realise these came with LED's as an option" Hethought they were totally OEM. They look oem. Did you use resistors to make the lights flash at the normal speed? I guess using LEDs will have less resistance and the ecu will think a bulbs gone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyboy Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Yeah big power resistors with aluminium heatsink's mounted on the metal boot skin behind the bumper. One for each side otherwise they flash very fast as though a bulb is out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukePitt Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Any body that can change my dash for cash? I'm in Bristol area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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