Painted Bezels
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Staging Lane
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From: United Kingdom, England
Painted Bezels I have just finished doing the painted bezels mod.
I used this info on how to take the gauge cluster out:
http://www.thelapd.com/bezel.htm
And this one on how to paint them:
http://joshker99.home.comcast.net/paintedbezels.htm
Before
You do need a steady hand but it was quite easy to do. It took about 2 hours from start to finish. Most of that is taking the gauges out and put them back. About 1/2 hour tp do the painting.
I used a UNI paint marker, metellic permant ink. It's looks just like paint as it goes on and drys very quick.
I got the same sort of effect that Josh got when he did his the dash lights glow a sort of bluey purple around the gauges. Looks great for a $5 mod. The paint pen is made by Mitsubishi. I only noticed this after I finished the job. Does this make it a ricers mod!
This pic is a bit shakey but you can see the bluey glow around the fuel gauge.
Thanks to these guys for giving me the confidence to pull my cluster apart and do the mod.
Hopefully this will give others the confidence to do their gauges and save themselves $75!
I used this info on how to take the gauge cluster out:
http://www.thelapd.com/bezel.htm
And this one on how to paint them:
http://joshker99.home.comcast.net/paintedbezels.htm
Before
You do need a steady hand but it was quite easy to do. It took about 2 hours from start to finish. Most of that is taking the gauges out and put them back. About 1/2 hour tp do the painting.
I used a UNI paint marker, metellic permant ink. It's looks just like paint as it goes on and drys very quick.
I got the same sort of effect that Josh got when he did his the dash lights glow a sort of bluey purple around the gauges. Looks great for a $5 mod. The paint pen is made by Mitsubishi. I only noticed this after I finished the job. Does this make it a ricers mod!
This pic is a bit shakey but you can see the bluey glow around the fuel gauge.
Thanks to these guys for giving me the confidence to pull my cluster apart and do the mod.
Hopefully this will give others the confidence to do their gauges and save themselves $75!
Last edited by 97vetteman; Aug 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM.
