I painted the ones on wifeys old diesel escort with the red touch up paint for the car. :L

Darren

 

Hi mate, me again

When I fitted the plazma dials to mine I painted the last 2-3mm of the tips of the needles red to help make them stand out. I used a rather fetching shade of red nail varnish to it with (dont tell the missus). I also painted the cluster bulbs red with it and it seems to have worked a treat.

You can get blue nail varnish but if you find it difficult to find, you could also consider glass paint.

 

if you do a search for dash bulbs/leds you'll prob find the posts from last few months or so m8, i'd do it for ya but too much vino to be arsed.

the search feature is a wonderful part of the site m8 :L

it's amazing what you can find if you look :whistling:

 

if i used say, blue touch up paint, does it look ok at night when the cluster tries lighting them up, also where would i fing glass paint and is it expensive? would b & q be a good place to start looking

 

B&Q would be a good starting point, or you could also try some arts and crafts places. As for using touch up paint, I have a feeling it would not work at night as it would not allow the needles to light up in any way that would be visible.

 

would prefere them not to light up at all at night just dont want dark patches showing up, black dials are being pulled off and replaced with white so dark coloured needles with no light would work well for what im trying to do

 

It's deffo a different idea but where would the law (partic MOT time) stand with that?

 

I cant see it being a problem with the mot as long as you have a means of reading your speed. I may be wrong but I think the only thing that you have to have fitted to the dash of a vehicle is a warning light for exterior fog lamps (if fitted), indicators and main beam. all other things that we have is there for driver info and not a legal requirement.

 

Scrape the back of the needles and paint them blue.... there painted white at the mo

 

It's deffo a different idea but where would the law (partic MOT time) stand with that?

if things go as ive planned then instead of the needle lighting up the dial itself would shine white so day or night i could still see what speed im doing, didnt think about how it might affect the mot

 

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if things go as ive planned then instead of the needle lighting up the dial itself would shine white so day or night i could still see what speed im doing, didnt think about how it might affect the mot[/quote]

So a reverse of what it is standard? You know what? It mite just work :L

 

So a reverse of what it is standard? You know what? It mite just work :L

i dont believe in having things as standard in my car :L
gonna make the white dials myself, pull a set of black ones off a scrapy, scan into my pc and use photoshop to change the colours, might even add a club badge or some other picture in the middle of the rev counter as theres a nice big blank space there to work on

 

pt sent you might find useful

 

was very useful thanks, the two smaller ones were already the right size just had to resize the others but was easy enough to do :L