Painting your needles

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Hey all

some of you may have these indiglo gauges in and think hmmmmm i want different needle colors to clash/coincide with the colors i have, but you dont know what to do? well look no further heres how ya do it

materials:

1. your gagues
2. masking tape (not some that has ruined edges)
3. Marks-A-lot permanent marker whatever color you want (i used red)

and this is how it goes

1. Take your gagues out of your cluster or just remove the bezle

2. start to mask.

3. now take your marker and make LONG, FULL strokes across the needle so you dont get spots and brush strokes b/c it wont look as nice.


and viola you now have painted needles to correspond with your gagues



And heres the finished product, pimp eh?




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[Wooderson]

what car is that cluster from? does it not have a tach or am i crazy???

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Originally Posted by luder099

what car is that cluster from? does it not have a tach or am i crazy???

its from a honda CX they never came with tachs so ...yeah i sold my LX one with the tach for monsy after the wreck so yeah. NEXT im doing LED light conversion

[IntegraXTR]

neat

my friend painted his needles yellow to make it JDM, looks good as well

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Originally Posted by IntegraXTR

neat

my friend painted his needles yellow to make it JDM, looks good as well

heh yeah i think paying 2 bucks for a yellow marker is better than paying 300 for an original cluster

[EThug]

cant you use spray paint as well?

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Originally Posted by EXccord

cant you use spray paint as well?

yeah you can its just cheaper this way and less work and looks pretty much the same. and there is the rumour of the needles being wieght sensitive and the wieght of the paint messing up the gauges but anywho

[93h22ajspec]

do you have pics of them while lighted up?

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Originally Posted by 93h22ajspec

do you have pics of them while lighted up?

no unfortunayly i dont, i dont have my car anymore so i cant plug it in, but if you wanna buy me another civic id be glad to show you what it looks like

[SadPanda]

what about just markering up the needles themselves? or using maybe scotch tape or something?

[*Vtec@8000RPM*]

hell yeah that looks good, to bad mine are already red, cuz that would be hard to put another color over it with a marker, can u not take the needle off the gauge?

[wheatfroggy17]

I just painted my needles the other day. I'll see if I can't steal my friends camera phone and take a picture of them in the day and with amber gauge lights at night for ya'll

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Originally Posted by *Vtec@8000RPM*

hell yeah that looks good, to bad mine are already red, cuz that would be hard to put another color over it with a marker, can u not take the needle off the gauge?

i have tried to yank it off which would be the only way i see it could come off but other wise...no

with those red just spray paint white then mark em up and tell us if they drop or something

[ArrozRacer7]

yea looks good but can u still see it at night?

[mad-ass]

Not bad.