<~~~ dirty mind lol

 

we all know ur secret. did u have to let it out so soon

 

thanks for the info on the installation kid lancer, i'll have my own pics up prolly sometime this weekend, o ya, did u git a lil rubbage tho? like... my new gauges make my needle git stuck a lil bit between 0 and 20

 

Those look pretty nice! Iwant those for Christmas...looks like I'll have to stop asking Santa for a pony...

 

So since you guys got ur gauges can you help the oz rally edition guys out cuz those look really sweet.

 

yeah i HAD a lil rubbage ... i thought i f'D up my MPH needle at 1st... i was madd pissed lol.... and it did get stuck at 20 mph.. but after a couple minutes of usage.. and putting everything back together it works fyne!

 

IM still getting rubbing...i dont knwo what to do!!!...i tried bending the base of the needle out a little, bending the gauges so they dont stick and nothing works....help!!

 

Alright from looking at the back of my gauges i can see a single trace that outlines nearly all of the gauges, it doesnt connect to any of the traces that actually light up the markings on the gauges either...so im guessing it is just a ground...my question is, can i cut this trace a little short to cut away the peice that is making my mph needle stick without damaging the light son the gauge?

 

K I answered my own question tonight. THIS IS IMPORTANT IF YOUR MPH NEEDLE IS RUBBING!!!! take out your cluster but have the gauges installed...makre sure that the black piece that holds the lcd for your milage is off...take a penceil and mark around the edges of the base around your mph needle....remove the gauges and take an exacto knive or a box cutter and you can remove the area inside that circle, but you may have to remove just a tiny bit more to make sure it doesnt touch the black part of your needle...dont worry about the trace that you will cut off on the back of the gauges, it is just a ground and doesnt need to be as long as it is...becareful, if you cut too high above your needle, the black peice you attach to your cluster wont be able to hide it because it wont go that high. Hopefully this helps, it sure helped me

 

when you guys connected the red and black gauge wires into the existing dimmer switch, which wire did you connect the red gauge wire to?

I attached the red one to the yellow wire from the existing dimmer and the new black one to the old black one.

I still get power to the gauges but when the brightness of the gauges is turned all the way up everything else in my dash dims (the clock, the AC lights, the cigarette lighter light, the cd player face)

And when I turn the power to the gauges all the way down, everything on the dash gets brighter and the original gauge lights from the black gauges shine through underneath the white ones.

Was I supposed to unplug or disable the original dash bulbs? And was I supposed to wire the red gauge wire to the white/green wire on the dimmer?

Has anyone else done this, or had this problem? I know I messed up I just cant figure out where....please help!

 

also...and this might be a very stupid question but please bear with me because I'm new...

Do I need to keep the original dimmer dial. I like the look of the new one for the gauges a lot better and would rather try to mount the new one in the old dials place.

Would it be possible to simply cut the wires off the back of the old dimmer dial and run them straight into the new gauge dimmer, thereby allowing me to remove the original one from the dash...or is this a bad idea?

 

i have reverse indiglo on my eclipse and it looks so much better than normal indiglo

 

So how many lancer es owners actually installed them sucessfully without any rubbing? Cause i was thinking about buying these but after seeing all the trouble is it really worth it?

 

I did mine successfuly! come to a red Diamond Imports meet and ill show ya!

 

Can someone tell me step by step how to do the wiring. It's wut I'm having real problems on. Which wire to cut, connect, etc.???