how to: change the color of your turns Options

[95st-celica]

I changed the color of my turns in my gauge cluster and they came ou great! they are even brighter then the stock ugly looking green ones...so i figured id take pictures along the way a put up a how to just incase anyone wanted to do this

1st) Take apart your gauge cluster...there 2 screws under the steering coloum holding on the plastic piece that surrounds your steering wheel..after you take them out just pull on it and it should pop off....next there should be 4 screws on the plastic piece that goes around the gauge cluster..2 on either side of the steering wheel and 2 up top holding underneath the dash...after you pull that out there are 4 more screes holding the cluster it's self in there....2 on the botom of either side of the steering whell and 2 black ones up top...take them out and the cluster should be nice and loose.....next you have to reach in a unclip 3 plugs that go into the cluster..unclip and pull out.....now you can take the cluster into your gaurage and put it on your bench to work on it....there is 2 yellowish looking screews holdin the plastic piece on and there should be 4 plastic clips on the bottom take that off and the plastic piece behind that so you can get to the turns

2nd) Now that the whole cluster is apart you'll be able to see that there are 2 green pieces for your turns....you can take a regular flat head and pop them out pretty easily..they are like a weird 6 shaped thing which makes the process a little more difficult when making them...why cant the just be square???

3rd) Pop them out...now your going to have to find a piece of transparent red/blue/yellow or whatever piece of plastic you want to change them too....i got really lucky...i went to the doller store and picked up on of them cheap poker sets with the plastice chips...the chips came in red,green,white,and yellow...i want to see someone do white and see how that looks!! sounds pretty cool...grab the poker set for like 2 or 3 bucks and head home

4th) Take your green piece of plastic and put it up to the piece of plastic your going to change your turns to..outline it with a razor blade...in my case i dug really deep with the razorblade so i could just snap the ends off of the poker chip..becarefull not to make them too small though...yopu actually want to go a little tiny bit bigger so you have to almost snap them back into the cluster so your sure they wont pop out

5th) Take a file...i used a 6 inch 2 in 1 bench grinder to smooth the sides and round the edges the best i could...doest have to be perfect just make it fit...then pop them back in the cluster

6) Pretty much your done..all you have to do now is put everytihng back together..screew it back in and your done...took me about 20-30 minutes to do minus the time it took to run to the store and grab the poker set...looks really good i might add and like i said they are brighter then the tock green ones..the poker set worked out perfect for me and it matches my gauges perfect...good luck...see pics below..sorry if they dont come up i dunno whats goin on









This post has been edited by 95st-celica: Apr 26, 2007 - 9:08 PM