ya didd it myslef, without a dyi, where did you get the white gauge face? also did you look at your bulbs? i found a few that where shorting, i bought some white leds on ebay for a cheap price, another cheap upgrade that makes a dif.
I just bought this Prelude several months ago and the last owner did the white gauge upgrade. The indiglo flickers sometimes though. So, I bought another one thinking that the inverter is bad in the current one. Hopefully, that will fix the flickering problem.
I think installing the white gauge face is a pretty doable DIY project. The white gauges are placed over the existing black one. If the indiglo keeps on flickering, I'll just removed it, although I really don't want to take the instrumental cluster apart again. I cracked the bottom of the clear plastic last time.
I did notice the bulb inside which lights up when you turn on the headlight. I guess if I take off the white gauge face, then I will change the bult to blueish one.
Sorry for bringing up an old thread but what type of paint did you guys use? I bought Krylon Fusion white for a base and also bought Krylon metallic brilliant silver and Krylon premium chrome. I sprayed some on a newspaper and it seems to me that the metallic looking a little different then the chrome, a bit more "sparkly" Don't really know how to describe it.
So what did you guys use?
i happen to be interested in this myself. i bought some krylon paint too. the lid was chromed out but the paint itself is silver. i want a chrome looking paint. Suggestions?
I believe I used "Dupli-Cast Chrome" that you can find at any Pep-Boys. Although I know spray paint will never equal the look of true chrome, I found the best results to be:
Aim the can slightly off center from the actual plastic rings, so that the shot is never going to hit it.
"circle" around each ring using a series of straight lines for a half second keeping in mind to do what I mentioned above.
After your first "coat" is done, wait for a while before doing the same steps again. Your first coat should not completely cover all of the black on the ring.
The goal is that with each coat, the "chrome" paint fills in the tiny paint "pits" that naturally happens when paint drys, and I found after about 5 light coats, the paint had the surface consistency closest to chrome. Any more coats and it might have started to run or at least build up the surface and not allowed the rings to fit correctly.
Well it finally stopped rainging so I was able to go outside get this done.
I just sprayed the gauge rings with the Krylon Chrome spray paint I bought earlier this week. I have three instrument clusters so I said screw it if I mess it up and I don't like how it turns out I can try a different spray paint. I used the technique that prepreludesh provided above. The Krylon Chrome turned out great! Just letting it dry right now.
Once you have the cluster out and the popped off the clear plastic then the black housing or whatever its called, flip that part over and there will be some melted like bumps. Simply take a punch or a tiny flat head screwdriver and just scrape them off. I used a tiny and very pointy phillips screwdriver and pushed it in a little bit and the rings came out no problem. You won't do any harm to the rings other then some minor scratches on the back but you won't be able to see it as it is covered all the time.
Use something sharp on the highlighted areas thats in the photo.
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