Morality in a gauge swap...

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10-24-2005, 02:37 PM

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Morality in a gauge swap...

So, here's the story.... I have a 96 with 86,xxx miles on it. I have the boring black gauges with EL whites faces on them and they have never worked worth a crap with the needles. I have a new gauge cluster with the SE white gauges with 136,xxx miles on it that I am going to put in.... In the future I may wish to sell the car and would like to be honest regarding the miles. How do I do it in this situation?

10-24-2005, 02:52 PM

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swap the face plates over..

10-24-2005, 02:55 PM

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IIRC you can have the dealer dial in the mileage....not sure about the cost though

10-24-2005, 03:03 PM

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I'd swap the plates but the needles are a ***** to try and take off and reattach and recalibrate.

10-24-2005, 04:59 PM

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you can swap the face plates without pulling of fand recalibrating the needles...

10-24-2005, 05:39 PM

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Hey, nice to see another MN'r here. Do you know how? Link, info?

10-24-2005, 05:45 PM

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you can swap the face plates without pulling of fand recalibrating the needles...

How do you figure that?

10-24-2005, 05:47 PM

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To answer your question, if it's not too high in price, have a dealer dial the milage. If it is high in price, which most likely it is... just do it yourself. Take your time know exactly what you're doing. I used to have the black gauge face, but I replaced it with the white SE gauge face. My needles are fine. Took me a few hours though.

10-24-2005, 05:57 PM

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The dealer did it for me for about $45, seems steep for what it took him 10 minutes to do, but they were able to do it without messing up the gauges

10-24-2005, 05:59 PM

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So glad I have factory white guages and silver needles

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How do you figure that?

I don't see it being possible either

10-24-2005, 05:59 PM

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just swap the faces and remove the needles...read the write up and it should be clear.

10-24-2005, 06:01 PM

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Do you guys with whites gauges have any pics with differnet LEDs installed? That is step 2 after I get them.

10-24-2005, 06:04 PM

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I have blue led's and blue led needles. I kept the original white needles from my GLE instead of swapping with the clear needles from the SE cluster I got the face off of... personally I like them better. Sorry, no pics, but look around on cardomain... they look good.