Cookwithvette

I don't mean to insult or put down those who prefer the import style, I just don't want to look like them. I'm installing a new set of Autometer guages in the center console and they come with bulb covers to change the illumination color. At least out of the car I kind of like the look of green lights. I'm just worried they'll look like crap in the car.

So what do you guys think?

fauxrs

I used red on my car - because the car is red - i considered green because it would match the green display of the cd player but decided on red anyway.

Jenny

I was running green in the civic... very :cool:

spiru

Do what you like, after all its your car... :cheers:


[Modified by spiru, 3:51 AM 2/8/2002]

BSeery

And the color of the car and interior are ............. ???

Cookwithvette

Black with dark red interior.

Randy K

nice

Captain Morgan

What about the color of any other guages or displays? CD player, etc. Green usually looks better but if it doesn't match what you already have, it can look weird.

Armstrong

I'm in the middle of redoing my interior and just replaced all mine with the blue ones. Will see what that does. It's OK to customize in moderation. It's not like you want to put neon lights under it.

Cookwithvette

The the tach and speedometer are stock. All center guages (including clock are being replaced.) Radio is stock style but not stock. I'm thinking about replacing it with a minidisc player but not sure about that. I'd like to replace the crap-a-licous radio while the center panel is out but thanks to my current job (:bs) funds have been running short lately. :(

As an update on my adventure, I got the panel out today with incredible ease. The reason: the git who owned the car before me put it back in wrong. Half of the screws were missing and I realized that the upper bit that everybody was warning me not to break was already broken. Boy, some of the weird azz things I've been finding on this car have been making me wonder how much crack the previous owner used to smoke in a day. Oh well, got the guages in but they didn't quite mount the way I thought (hoped) they would. You need to wrap the rubber band partly around the back of the guage bezel, otherwise the guage will fall straight through the opening. Also, because the rear pan isn't used with these gauges, the idiot lights on either side of the top guages don't have anything to support lights anymore. I'll just have to rig something up to hold the lights. Not exactly a drop in replacement but should be fairly easy to finish.

I have a 12 volt transformer in the house and I've tried lighting the guages while installed in the panel. Red looks a little on the pink side, green looks alien-esque, bare looks a little odd. I'm starting to lean towards green.

Now for the Duh! moment. All of the gauges are electronic except for one, oil pressure, which is mechanical. The electronic ones have a black bezel on them, the mechanical one has a silver bezel. Same with the faces, electronic-white, mechanical-silver. So, my Oil Pressure guage looks different from the others but surprisingly it doesn't look too bad. I'll have photos in a few weeks probably.

Thanks for your suggestions folks!!!
-Matt