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Old Apr 17, 2011 | 10:26 PM
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I have a '99 Pontiac Firebird and I want to change the background to Blue on the gauge cluster. I have read that the reason it's red, is because there is a film on the stock overlay. So, I was wondering if you can remove the red film from the stock overlay and just put blue led's behind it to make it shine through as blue, because I don't want to buy a new overlay, I want to keep the stock one. Thanks for the help in advance.
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Old Apr 18, 2011 | 04:35 PM
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If you're gonna take the time to tell him to search you may as well just send him some links (straight outta one of the stickies up top). These outta help:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...-write-up.html

https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...ml#post3024910

https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...-odometer.html
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Thanks for the help zdc590. SLPhawk, I know how to use the search bar, but every post that I've found has people changing their overlay, which I don't want to do. I want to keep the stock one, but put blue led's behind it and I want to know if it will work, because I have heard that there is a red film behind the stock which is why the numbers appear pinkish-red. It's not that I was too lazy to look or anything, it's just that all of the ones I've found, people have changed their overlay.
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I've heard of people scraping the film off, but I've never taken my overlay off to look to see what kind of work that would be.

I'm guessing that's your car in your avatar? I've been thinking about doing blue interior lights with my red Formula as well....
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Old Apr 21, 2011 | 05:46 PM
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Has anyone tried scraping the red film off of the overlay yet?
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