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Those lights are sweet. I would have some too but I cant find any with a tach. any help?
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I'm thinking about those actually, did you just use the stock tach?
these look so nice when there put in
'96 Mystique (Performance Wht/Zetec)
few mods
'65 Ford Mustang V8 <3
'85 Caddy Eldorado AKA Pimpmobile lol :P
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Originally posted by guessclassic65:
I'm thinking about those actually, did you just use the stock tach?
these look so nice when there put in
It looks like he doesn't have a tach on his 'Tour.
For some gauge overlays (w/ Tach), check this:
procarparts.com
Or
procarparts.com # 2
I don't believe either of these require any wiring... etc. but I haven't fully researched them yet.
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Originally posted by mean'tour:
Originally posted by guessclassic65:
I'm thinking about those actually, did you just use the stock tach?
these look so nice when there put in
It looks like he doesn't have a tach on his 'Tour.
For some gauge overlays (w/ Tach), check this:
procarparts.com
Or
procarparts.com # 2
I don't believe either of these require any wiring... etc. but I haven't fully researched them yet.
Both of those need wiring but its not that hard. If I had a tach I would go with the reverse style one from procarparts.com.
My ride(Cardomain link) :
'95 Contour 16V Zetec DOHC, Teal , ATX
Born on Sep. 4, 1995
86+ miles
*LEDs mods are on their way!*
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Originally posted by Kerry2Kool4U:
Originally posted by DESIGN:
I like those. Let me ask a couple of ignorant questions though.
Are they difficult to put in?
How are they lit? I am assuming that they come with there own blub/light.
Jon
The difficulty level is 4 out of 10(<-- being the hardest):
The hardest part for me was finding a suitable ground wire location (wires are a bit short to work with.) I was going to wire them up to the head light switch but I decided to wire it to my fog light switch. The rest was strait forward.
They are indiglo guages, they have there own light source, no bulbs. As far as turning them on, the switch they provided found its place on the bottom of my steering column.
I'm pretty happy with them, even though I think my speedo gauge is off by 5 mph's.
Does anyone know how to light up the needles more at night?
Well I think it would be pretty hard to combat the brightness of the speedo. But heres an idea. The needles are lit from the bulbs in your cluster, there are small refractors that deliever the light to your needle. All you need to do is simply make more light travel to the needles. How you do that is up to you.
Tyler
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Originally posted by SHAutoTrends:
Originally posted by Kerry2Kool4U:
Originally posted by DESIGN:
I like those. Let me ask a couple of ignorant questions though.
Are they difficult to put in?
How are they lit? I am assuming that they come with there own blub/light.
Jon
The difficulty level is 4 out of 10(<-- being the hardest):
The hardest part for me was finding a suitable ground wire location (wires are a bit short to work with.) I was going to wire them up to the head light switch but I decided to wire it to my fog light switch. The rest was strait forward.
They are indiglo guages, they have there own light source, no bulbs. As far as turning them on, the switch they provided found its place on the bottom of my steering column.
I'm pretty happy with them, even though I think my speedo gauge is off by 5 mph's.
Does anyone know how to light up the needles more at night?
Well I think it would be pretty hard to combat the brightness of the speedo. But heres an idea. The needles are lit from the bulbs in your cluster, there are small refractors that deliever the light to your needle. All you need to do is simply make more light travel to the needles. How you do that is up to you.
Tyler
Thanks, When I saw one of those refractors when I was installing the faces I thought they were mounting points for the plates the faces sit on. I'll search and see what I can find on the needle lighting.
My ride(Cardomain link) :
'95 Contour 16V Zetec DOHC, Teal , ATX
Born on Sep. 4, 1995
86+ miles
*LEDs mods are on their way!*
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import intelligence has some real nice guage over lays for are cars... alot of colors to choose from.
G/f's black 99se sport 5 speed
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Originally posted by pimpdcontour:
import intelligence has some real nice guage over lays for are cars... alot of colors to choose from.
They also have the lighted needles I might get if I can't get my needles to light up more.
My ride(Cardomain link) :
'95 Contour 16V Zetec DOHC, Teal , ATX
Born on Sep. 4, 1995
86+ miles
*LEDs mods are on their way!*
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they only have the red needle kit for the contour
G/f's black 99se sport 5 speed
2 1/2 test pipe-custom cat back 3 single tip
cai with kn3530
safc optimized tb
8mm plug wires
spec stage 1 clutch
svt front bumper
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Originally posted by Kerry2Kool4U:
After a week and a half of "shipping" my guages finally arrived and I installed them within an hour.
The Old: 
The New: 
My old guages had a glue on the back of them and I found a place to put them:
Yes, thats my cat on the desk.
I took of the old gauges(plastics) and glued the new ones on. I wired the new gauges through some lights I took out from the cluster. Is there anything I can do about the lights right behind the needles and lighting the needles up more?
Comments? Suggestions?
i have maybe known as a stupid question...can you maybe post the on/off switch to turn the gauges on/off? Where do you put it? I already asked someone if they we're able to be hooked up to the headlights like the stock ones and my response was no..
wanna help me out?
thanks alot.
'96 Mystique (Performance Wht/Zetec)
few mods
'65 Ford Mustang V8 <3
'85 Caddy Eldorado AKA Pimpmobile lol :P
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