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Oct 23, 2004 | 04:58 PM

SlowTA

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T/A guage color

Does anyone have a different color then red lights lighting up their guages? Was wondering what some other colors might look like

Oct 23, 2004 | 05:04 PM

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I think staying with red would be your best bet. Other colors could be harder to see.

Oct 23, 2004 | 05:05 PM

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I think staying with red would be your best bet. Other colors could be harder to see.

well what about the regular white lights?

Oct 23, 2004 | 07:46 PM

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i have a set of apc gauges in mine right now that light up blue..........lets just say im going back to stock and anyone who wants blue light up white face gauges should holler at me

Oct 23, 2004 | 09:26 PM

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Blue is the the most difficult color of light for our eyes to focus on, especiully a strong/vibrant medium blue. That is why it is typically not used from the factory as instrument lighting. I know Volkswagen does use it partly in the GTI (maybe others models too) and it may look cool, but its not as easy to read (although their shade of blue is just off of what would be bad). That is why most instrument lighting is red, green, or white (sometimes needles are orange).

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