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How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Bing » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:56 pm

It is very lovely ZermattV, but comes very much second to Imola Red :D
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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Woody » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:03 am

Bing wrote:It is very lovely ZermattV, but comes very much second to Imola Red :D
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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by markeg » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:04 am

Stuart Truman wrote:
Bing wrote:
Stuart Truman wrote:Bing, are the needles dual coloured, or all red?
Just a red strip down the flat bit on the top of each needle - all red would look a bit Civic I think :D
Erm, thanks. (All red on Alpinas) :poke:

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Hmmm .. Mine aren't, they're tri-coloured......??


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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Stuart Truman » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:05 am

I'm going to have to go and check now!
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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Bing » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:05 am

Woody wrote:
Bing wrote:It is very lovely ZermattV, but comes very much second to Imola Red :D
Good man Bing, you're halfway there, you just need converting to the Coupe side of life...!

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Being a serial thread hijacker myself I have no problem with the way this thread has wandered onto Bing's Lust That Should Not Be Named. But that's just insulting Woody :x

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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Bing » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:06 am

markeg wrote: Hmmm .. Mine aren't, they're tri-coloured......??
What colours ? How does that work then ?
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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by markeg » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:09 am

Red on one edge, dark blue centre strip, light blue other edge.... I'll get a piccie up later...


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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by ZermattV » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:11 am

Looks like the bloke who hand built #69 forgot to get the Humbrol Enamel paint out
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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Bing » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:15 am

markeg wrote:Red on one edge, dark blue centre strip, light blue other edge.... I'll get a piccie up later...


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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Stuart Truman » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:16 am

markeg wrote:Red on one edge, dark blue centre strip, light blue other edge.... I'll get a piccie up later...


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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Bing » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:17 am

Stuart, yours are like mine - red stripe... A pic, taken by you, in this thread :

http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=35469

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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Stuart Truman » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:24 am

Hard to tell in the light. I thought they were all red, but they could be dark grey/black on the edges

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Except with the lights on its almost reversed...

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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Bing » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:33 am

Definitely the same as mine - grey or silver... Mine are silver.

That dash needs a clean too :P
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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by Stuart Truman » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:42 am

I'll take a pic tomorrow in the daylight
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Re: How To Change Instrument Cluster / Dial Needles

Post by markeg » Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:13 pm

Stuart ... Mine are the same

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It's red centre stripe and dark blue outer edges. What I thought was light blue must have been old-age eyesight :oops:

Problem is I've now looked inside the car and its dusty. So I need to go clean it. Damn.


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