BadBirdie

while replacing the light behind my gas gauge i want to swap to a different color needle while i have the gauge cluster out. anyone know where i can pick some up?

SCott5

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I am pretty sure 6litredesigns sells them

99'CajunFirehawk157

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^ Tru Dat!

BadBirdie

i checked there and i guess you have to send your old needles in and they change em for you but it cost like 80 or 90 bucks!

Raleigh TA

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I think they offer to change yours out, or you can do it yourself, but either way it isn't cheap. I guess it may be about the same cost as buying a cluster from a boneyard or in the classifieds here on Tech.

99'CajunFirehawk157

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BadBirdie

damn i didnt realize it would run me that much. maybe i'll get some later down the road.
thanks guys

btw cajunfirehawk your overlay and white needles look nice, do you have a pic of it installed just for kicks?

SparkyJJO

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I have white needles on mine. Yeah the price is a little "high" at first glance but remember these aren't high volume items made in china or anything like that.

95cam86roc

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I bought blue gauge needles from 6LE, it was well worth the money IMO.

Sommer86

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Thanks for the nice words guys!

Bad birdie - you dont need to send your needles in. We do offer an installation option or we can just send the new needles and you install them. It's fairly simple with my instructions as well.

'02 WS6

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That's gonna be a familiar sight for me this wkend. Where do the LEDs plug in at? Was the install fairly simple?

SparkyJJO

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LEDs are the easiest of everything to do. The bulbs are in sockets that twist in from the back. Remove bulb socket, remove old bulb, insert LED, twist socket back in place. Done. 2 sockets are for the turn signal indicators and 1 is for the high beam indicator. I just left those as standard bulbs.

Needles take a little bit of time to do. I didn't follow S86's directions completely as I found that when I would turn on the ignition (but not start the car) that a several of the needles would move to a particular location every time (I tested this several times before moving forward). The tach I did wait until it was totally warmed up to put that one in place, but since my car is cammed it is still only an estimate as at idle it bobs around a little bit I had to adjust the speedo needle a couple times, and I pushed the volts needle on too far and had to redo it.

Do yourself a favor and wear a latex glove when doing the needles, otherwise you'll get little shiny spots from the grease on your fingers all over your overlay. Not cool.

I have no experience with an overlay change so I have no input there.

Just because I want to show off my LEDs and needles a little bit I have white needles but at night they glow the backlight color. I love it.

'02 WS6

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Thats just what I wanted to hear. Thanks for the info.

BadBirdie

my bad i missunderstood, thanks for clarifying

BadBirdie

do you have green LEDs? is that why the white needles are green at night?

'02 WS6

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^Think so...matches exterior of car that way.

99'CajunFirehawk157

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whytryz28

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Someone used another cars needles and they looked badass, I think it was from a G6

9WhiteCamaro9

If you don't have the money for them, you may be able to look into another cars needles. I know a guy not to long ago posted up where he took the needles out of another car and not a Camaro or T/A, I forget what kind of car they came out of but he worked with them and made them work and it actually looked pretty good.

BadBirdie

what color LEDs did you use? if i use white needles with my stock gauges and stock bulbs, will they light up white at night? or red?