Looks cool but a few minor imperfections

Posted by Mike S. on 09-02-2010

The Good: The white gauges look really cool during the day. Installation was easy once you get the hang of it.
The Bad: The instructions do not mention anything about removing the original gauge mounting screws. The holes in the smaller gauges do not line up perfect, so I tried removing the screws so I put down the overlay and then just retightening them over it. Don't do it! It worked fine on the fuel gauge but the oil pressure gauge attaches to a thin metal plate behind the gauge that will fall off and is virtually impossible to hold in place to restart the screw thread. It took me a half hour figure out a way to hold it in place (a piece of bent cardboard and super thin tweezers). Just deal with it being slightly off. Speaking of slightly off, the graphics on the speedo do not line up perfect with the OEM face so at night the illumination is kind of weak toward the bottom numbers. The Fuel gauge had some printing imperfections (like the F in fuel is half cut off). Not a big deal, I am just a perfectionist. As you can see in the picture of the gauge cluster at night, the white face reflects more light then the OEM matte black so the needles cast a glow around them that makes it harder to see number directly below. It would be nice if the finish was a little less “shiny”. I also wish they offered an option that had a white diffuser on the back so I could ditch the stock gauge faces and use their 194 LED’s to change the illumination color from “blah orange” to hyper white.

But even though my bad list is much longer then the good, the drawbacks are minor. This is still an awesome product that I would recommend to anyone looking for a low $$$ visual upgrade.