I just installed my OEM white gauge cluster, and I am really happy! They look awesome

I have a question, though... they don't appear to look any different at night than the old gauges. Is that how they are supposed to be? Did the former owner maybe change the lights... or is this what they are supposed to look like? I was thinking they were going to look at least a little different at night.

Anyways, they look awesome during the day and I am glad I bought them on eBay (from Ramius83). The installation was easy and took only about 1/2 hour.

 

thats how mine look...i have the stock cluster. only thing different are my needles. they light up white behind the needle since i have a 96.

 

whoa!! where you get the stock white gauges from?!?!?!

 

I am glad that you like them co_maxima. That is how they are supposed to look.

For anyone else that may be interested, I have another cluster identical to that but it is the "titanium" series. Click HERE

 

Erik,

You had asked me to tell you the mileage on the cluster you sold me. When I put it in it said 53,056.

Thanks again!

BTW, where are you getting these from? Totalled Maximas?

 

Yeah, I am ONLY getting them from rear-ended Maximas. I will NOT pull a part off a car that has been totaled in the front because that is too much of a risk for me to sell you all defective/broken parts. Thanks for the mileage update, now I know how many miles that Maxima has. Thanks again.

 

Yup. that's how they're supposed to look.
I love the white face gages, but it has 2 drawbacks;

a) Harder to see redline when you're charging ahead at night.
b) During twilight, the time between day turning into night, the numbers get kinda sorta hard to read.

Other than that, they're awesome!

DW

 

so I suppose that means that the digital ODO stores the mileage within itself, and doens't get it from the ECU?

Kevin

 

Yep, I remember we were discussing that...

Unfortunately, turns out that it is stored within the cluster itself. I was not ambitious enough to actually switch the circuit board on the back of the gauge clusters. I don't care... I know what the mileage is if I just keep track of it.

It would be nice if it were stored in the ECU though...

 

Correct, the 98-99 instrument cluster has a built in "RAM" module that stores the mileage. I am toying with the idea of taking the cluster connectors off those totaled Maximas and matching them up with the connectors on a 95-97 Maxima. IE, connect the 95-96 illumination wire, tach wire, brake light wire, etc. to a 98-99 connector. This in turn may allow a 95-97 Maxima to use a 98-99 cluster.

 

Nice. And get the 2 digital trip meters as well, as opposed to the 1 analog one?? This would be really good stuff.

DW

 

so it took you about 1/2 hr. can you give me instruction to get to the instrument cluster? is there a write-up somewhere with pictures or something? thanks.

 

nevermind. i looked through the other search link and found my answer. damn "how2". shouldn't have known.