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Changing colour of the dash - HELP!


Vlad

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Hi people,

Excuse my English, as I'm away on holiday and a bit drunk :lol:

One one of my mates really good at soldering etc, so I brought my dash here for him to change back lighting from orange to blue...

But he just messaged me with a slight problem...

Speedo/petrol level etc plastic is orange it self..so if he will change light to blue, it will be mix of blue+orange... My question is - can orange paint be rubbed off that plastic, so it's just see thru? Or how people gone around this problem?

I also have spare JDM clocks...is actual motherboard different? If I tell him to carry on and put new, blue, light diods on and I don't like it, can I just swap main motherboard of JDM clocks on my clocks?

Thank

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The needles are NOT painted, just magenta plastic.

The dials have to be replaced, and can't be rubbed off unlike the LCD diffusers - although I have seen some where the dials have been left stock and just the LED's changed, and the colours looked fine in the night, didn't see a day pic though.

Jared350 recently did this.

http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/85266-my-blue-led-dials-and-magenta-needles/

 

I, however, changed the whole lot, LEDs and dials, but went for white/red with a different style of dial face from blackcat customs

http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/85768-finally-got-round-to-finishing-my-led-conversion/#entry1286284

 

Hope this helps

 

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