Gstraw Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 So are your LCD display ones white or blue smd's? Looks nice. Thinking of maybe getting a white display. Also can you still dim your display with the dimmer dial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serratia Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 The smts are white in the LCD area but Mook supplies a custom piece of blue film to fit behind it hence the blue colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksey Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 No problem Oaksey, glad you like them. Mook and I spent a while getting them exactly how I wanted them. Top bloke, really does a quality job. Fitting is the dials is easy, its swapping the smts that's very fiddly. I used a standard soldering iron tip, not knowing that you can get smaller ones which is what might have made it a bit easier. If you do a search you should find my old posts detailing the fitting. Here's a pic of my old dials, look awful don't they! And here is a pic of the circuitboard as I was halfway through changing to the white smts. You have to swap 23 smts. You can see the 10 that I have swapped that are lit up. But if you look where the LCD panel sits showing your fuel and temp, there are 13 more to do there. In the pic you can see there are 4 New smts fitted in this area but they are not lit, it took me a while to work out they will only light up when you reconnect the LCD display. I spent a while swapping them around and trying to get to work before I realised this! If this is your first time I would allow a full day to do this including painting your needles and recalibrating using a satnav I also swapped my headlight, fog light and seatbelt warning light for pink! You can also my old needles in this pic that I wasn't happy with. Hi Serratia, I've still got my old dials in, waiting patiently for mook to send me a picture, I'm getting excited now! Not only do you have great dials, Your car is my colour, one day oh one day******* so so jelous, when we meet up one of these days, I'll be the one boggle eyed and dribbling down my chin, what a lovely motor my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaine Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 how do you atach more than 1 photo a time? it keeps sayin error file size too big, how do i compress the file size oh, they have gone on the same post anyway lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsolentMinx Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) [ how do you atach more than 1 photo a time? it keeps sayin error file size too big, how do i compress the file size oh, they have gone on the same post anyway lol don't 'attach' photos. you only get a very limited amount of space to keep pics. get a photobucket account, upload the pics there, and then paste the IMG code in here Edited January 11, 2012 by InsolentMinx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaine Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 oh cool didnt realise it would be that easy, will do that next time, cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor2812 Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 oh cool didnt realise it would be that easy, will do that next time, cheers where did u get the blue needles from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickles Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Razor, if you talk to Diablo on here he does the fitting of the SMTs, he also at the same time fits your new gauge face, and can do your needles too Mine were Blue just like that, they look brilliant in the day and at night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor2812 Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 cheers, will have to put this on hold as my workhorse (mondeo for work) needs new clutch and flywheel doing. fooking hydraulics went last night on my way home. left me stuck. so thats gonna be about £700. tax man wants paying at the end of the month and work is always quiet this time of yr. so gonna get some cash built up, and will have to book some time off work and arrange to take a trip to lincoln, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaine Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Yea, i sent the kit mook supplied and a dial cluster over to diablo and he did it all for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsolentMinx Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) so can the needles be calibrated without having to go out for a drive with a GPS then? or does Diablo hook each cluster he does up to his car, and go for a drive? Edited January 12, 2012 by InsolentMinx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickles Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 He goes out for a drive. The tickover on his car he obviously knows when its warm, so the RPM is no problem. I got mine back and the MPH was out by about 3MPH but on the good side So I left it like that, I did a check up to 90MPH via GPS and at 90MPH on the GPS it was around 85MPH on the Celica so I just left it as it wasnt worth farting about with Its an easy to do thing anyway, when you get the dials back, just remove the perspex from the front of the dials and connect them up being careful obviously. Before you get them done, make sure your cars warm and tick over is where it usually is, and you can see where its pointing on the RPM so when you get them back you know if its right or wrong. They are only a gentle push fit so are easily removed for adjustment and push lightly on again.... NOT TO HARD like I did or the needle gets stuck and doesnt return lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsolentMinx Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 just like it was on my bike then when i did the backlighting for that. cool cool. i'll be doing mine when Mook and I sort something out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickles Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 So will I Mooks really busy at the moment but he will do it, and its worth the wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsolentMinx Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 yup. no rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlybyWyre Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3a5f262312 has any body used these dials, seems an easier job to to, but easier isnt always best. I have those dials. If you search on Indiglow you may find the thread. Still working fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo7772 Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Just look on there mate, there is a few there but iv lost most of the pics on my old laptop http://www.celica-club.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/95481-hi-guys/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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