i want to change my gauges to like, blue or something.......can you change the green light in your gauges....if you can....where is the light located?

 

The bulbs are located behind the instrument cluster, so you have to remove the whole cluster. But before you do this, I think that the GXE gauges have green already in the cluster. This means that no matter what color bulb you put in, you'll still get green. What I'm doing is getting an instrument cluster from an 89 SE and just replacing it.

I think "ngthing" has used overlays to get the white faces, but he said he had trouble getting the green color out. You might want to talk to him.

BTW, can anybody tell me how to remove the cluster? I have directions for a 4th gen, and it should be similar, but I don't want to take any chances with my car.

Thanks.

 

Take a look at the bottom of this thread. I have explained how to do it on 3rd gens.
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....threadid=20233

good luck

 

thanks for the instructins on taking apart the top dash piece. i need to take mine apart some time and try to fix mine, the vinyl is starting to peel up around the vents. also, i have a gxe, so it has the green inlay in the cluster. does anyone know if this green inlay can be removed somehow? i never took it apart to look how it is. the white se guages dont have this problem do they?

 

I don't think the SE gauges have this green overlay problem since I've heard that you can change the color pretty easily (either by lights or caps on the lights). I will tell you when I get my cluster, prolly by next week.

 

I have a GXE and my gauges didnt have any green inlay in the gauges themselves. The reason that the gauges are green is because there is a green piece of rubber over the clear bulbs behing the gauges that tints them green. I took the rubber part off of the bulbs and painted the bulbs blue. The gauges are deffinitely blue now but they are very dim. I would recommend not painting the buls like I did. Sometime down the road I'm gonna have to replace the bulbs with real blue bulbs. But as far as I know there is no green tint in the gauges themselves, but only the bulbs. Now for the 89-91's it might be different.

 

i think that write up on how to take the dash apart should be in someones FAQ. it is a usful peice and well written, thanks DaBox, maybe John Ng can put it in his FAQ, cause its a good thing to have i think maybe john ng new FAQ or somehting

 

thats cool, i have a 92 gxe so hopefully mine will be ok.

 

o one more thing, what size bulbs are they again?

 

no true. the clusters do have green in them. i took off the bulb coverings and the light is still green, you want to leave some type of cover on the bulbs, aftermarket "hyper" white bulbs or whatever heat up fast, the cover helps keep temerature down

 

the bulb number is 194.