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Posted By: Panther37 Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/11/06 05:42 PM
I make custom Indiglo Gauges and I wanted to know if anyone was interested in a set. I'd only need 5 or so people to start and then more purchases would be one at a time. If a LARGE number of people want to bulk buy I can look into it. The only thing that I will need to obtain is a scan of the gauge faces and HVAC panel.

Cost: $90 for gauge faces, $110 for faces and HVAC panel.
Shipping is $6 to North America, $7 most anywhere else.

REMEMBER: I can make them 100% custom. That means you can pick what color they glow, you can pick the font, change numbering, lines or redline, you can add images, logos or text to the foreground or background. If you can think it, and it doesn't include metalic colors or real carbon fiber, I SHOULD be able to do it or make it look how you want.





More pictures can be found at the following urls:
http://www.performanceprobe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15802
http://www.mx6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133390

My email is panther37@gmail.com
Admins, if I broke any rules let me know so I can fix any issues.
Posted By: RawBurt Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/11/06 05:46 PM
Thanks for offering your services. I hope this goes over well for you. FYI, a GB just finished up not too long ago on custom guages, but they were not indiglow. Nontheless, good luck
Posted By: Frosty Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/11/06 05:49 PM
Seems a bit expensive to me.....
Posted By: ohsigmachi_dup1 Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/11/06 08:11 PM
I'll take a set. Is there any other daytime background color besides white?
Posted By: m!key Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/11/06 08:52 PM
i might be in. you offer any color of glow?
Posted By: pimpdcontour Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/11/06 08:59 PM
yea i kinda wanna see what all glow olors you offer and if i where to mail you a pic you ould put it on to the gauges? or are they just one solid color?
Posted By: morbid Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/11/06 11:48 PM
That's not expensive... especially if they can be customized.
Posted By: Panther37 Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/12/06 02:04 AM
Originally posted by ohsigmachi:
I'll take a set. Is there any other daytime background color besides white?


I can do any color. Depending upon the color you choose it may limit your indiglo colors. Oh and if you want I'll help you install them for free since we're on the same island! Just let me take some pictures please.

Originally posted by m!key:
i might be in. you offer any color of glow?


Yes I do. Any color that can be displayed on your monitor I can have the gauges glow.

Originally posted by pimpdcontour:
yea i kinda wanna see what all glow colors you offer and if i where to mail you a pic you could put it on to the gauges? or are they just one solid color?


I can pretty much make them glow any color. For almost all colors (other than the regular blue) I start of with indiglo that glows white. Then I alter the color in the same manner spotlights on a stage can change colors using a gel. Since I use a CYMK printer (not your average home printer) to change the color, I can make it any color it will print out. I can also put in a pattern, design, picture or text that can only be seen when the gauges are on. I can put any picture (that my wife will let me) that you send me on face of the gauges. Pictures that are for when the gagues are on only I will have to review so see how well they would come out.

Originally posted by 99contourdriver:
Seems a bit expensive to me.....


I actually agree but my costs are high as well. Unless I purchase a large quantity of indiglo I can't get much of a discount on it. My ink cost is also higher than I expected. When I first decided to make these I wanted them to be more like $50-$60 a set but right now I couldn't sell any number of gauges at those prices. If a bulk buy happens and I can get a discount on indiglo I will more than gladly give you guys a discount. I'll be asking my supplier right after this reply.

Originally posted by morbid:
That's not expensive... especially if they can be customized.


Thank you. I usually spend four to eight hours designing the base design for a car with variants for trim levels, transmission, etc. Then I spend from one to four hours customizing a customer's gauges. It usually takes me another hour or so to assemble the gauges. So potentially I could be spending from 3 to 13 hours on a set of gauges. That's $30 to $6.92 per hour and that includes materials.

Some gauge examples I would send these files as proofs to customers so the can make sure they are getting what they want: (If you see small little lines or dots please ignore them. These files are converted from CorelDraw and my not have fully converted properly.

http://panther37.xtothezracing.com/gauges/baxo%2003.pdf
http://panther37.xtothezracing.com/gauges/Graham_A_M%2001.pdf
http://panther37.xtothezracing.com/gauges/Graham_A_M%2002.pdf
http://panther37.xtothezracing.com/gauges/cars/probe_gd/Probe_GD_GT-150MPH1-60R1_0-9-0.pdf
http://panther37.xtothezracing.com/gauges/WLP%20-%20Aaron%2002.pdf
Posted By: Big Daddy Kane Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/12/06 02:09 AM
Kinda off topic, but I just read this thread and got the overwhelming urge to go install the guage faces I have from a previous GB... at 4am
Posted By: pimpdcontour Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/12/06 04:55 PM
thinking about this real hard....
Posted By: KerryKool Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/13/06 04:03 AM
Is there a way just to get the HVAC, I have the gauge faces already and missing the HVAC.

Can you make it match these...





Its a reverse style glow, haven't found them for my car at any site. The glowing speedo numbers are actually a bit bluer than the pic shows.
Posted By: Panther37 Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/13/06 04:34 AM
I could make you a reverse indiglo set similar to the one pictured. Reverse indiglo would be an extra $30. I am also limited in how I can make them. Small abojects, text, lines, etc. won't show up well if at all. The km/h on the gauges you pictured MIGHT be to small so I'd have to make the text larger so it would show up at night.


These are pictures of my very first prototypes of reverse indiglo. The ones I send you won't be blurry like the ones in the picture. And no, the white doesn't show up yellow, I made it do that on purpose.
Posted By: Big Daddy Kane Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/13/06 07:07 PM
Originally posted by Panther37:
I am also limited in how I can make them. Small abojects, text, lines, etc. won't show up well if at all. The km/h on the gauges you pictured MIGHT be to small so I'd have to make the text larger so it would show up at night.




That was the problem with my S&H guages... the km/h part lights up as one big blob instead of the detailed numbers.

Wouldn't be a big deal, if I wasn't...

<---- here!
Posted By: KerryKool Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/13/06 09:14 PM
Originally posted by Panther37:
I could make you a reverse indiglo set similar to the one pictured. Reverse indiglo would be an extra $30. I am also limited in how I can make them. Small abojects, text, lines, etc. won't show up well if at all. The km/h on the gauges you pictured MIGHT be to small so I'd have to make the text larger so it would show up at night.


[image]http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7061/img06209dn.th.jpg[/image] [image]http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5749/img06180aw.th.jpg[/image]
These are pictures of my very first prototypes of reverse indiglo. The ones I send you won't be blurry like the ones in the picture. And no, the white doesn't show up yellow, I made it do that on purpose.





All I need is the HVAC panel with the reverse glow style, the pics are just for reference of what I want to see on the HVAC, I don't need the gauge faces.
Posted By: Panther37 Re: Custom Indiglo Gauge Faces - 04/13/06 09:22 PM
I can do just the HVAC panel. It would be $40. I'd also need the scan of it as well.
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