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Old 01-06-2009, 03:54 PM
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Those are them, not sure how I missed them, lol! They still light up green though, right?

Looking at the needle kit page a bit more, if you wanted say the Hyper Red kit, I take it you wouldn't have to strip the red off?
'2K+ Neon - Hyper Red Kit only
Though, if it says it's compatible (assuming for any color?), you just strip the paint off the needle?
 

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Old 01-06-2009, 06:50 PM
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If green is the stock color ... Mine the color is on the rear of the gauge faces an could be sanded off , unsure on yours ,
I'd strip them cause the red on the needle will absorb allot of the brightness...
I sanded mine down then painted with a paint marker
 
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Old 01-06-2009, 08:56 PM
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Mhm, same film deal on the Neon's too.
 
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Be advised that in order to lightly sand the film off you would have to take the needles off. Recalibrating them is a major PIA....

If you were to buy white leds for the cluster they would shine light blue and have perfect needle and gauge illumination. You can use blue and get a darker blue but your brightness will go down and everything on the gauges will be blue, as in no red for rpm and your needle illumination is not as good as stock. There shouldn't be a problem in puttin green leds in your cluster they should shine through nice althought it would be the same story as with the blues, not so good needle illumination and everywhere their is red on the gauges will now be dim green. For the colors like red, orange, Uv (purple) you would have to either take the cluster apart and lightly sand off the green film or use Q-tips with some lacquer thinner on them, as in what I did for my turn signals, this method worked very well.
 
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Yeah, I have seen that about the white LEDs. That is most likely what I'd do as I really don't want to go messing with the cluster at all due to the whole PITA needle calibration. Plus, I'd prefer them to be blue to match the car.
 
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Recalibration is not BAD if you follow instructions well ... the one thing that helps is a GPS that does speed to redo the speedo ... Matt normally includes instructions on recall but for me the speedo instructions didn't work , I used my gps to do it ...
 
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those would work but i dont see an rpm gauge. also my fuel and temp are 2 different guages
 



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