too cheap gauges?

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Hi, I'm pretty much a new member here, and I've been reading *ALOT* of useful tutorials/threads and preferences from many of you, I appreciate every word of it. Hopefully I can settle in some and give off first-hand expierence as well soon.

On to the subject; I've been looking for simple white guages, nothing really fantastic. Anyways, I came around SpeedHut.com from a friend, and they run around $69+ depending on how custom you want it.

I kept looking just for curiousity sake, found ProCarParts.com (relatively 20 minutes away).. and I saw these - these are only $35 compared to $69+ I've been finding at other places.. are they different?

I'm just looking for reverse indiglo guages, not something with 20 different colors, just the faces that will glow at night. I've taken off my gauge panel before for my stereo I put in a month ago, so that's relatively easy. Is setting up an inverter and these switches for [any] kit it seems doable in a nice timely fasion, or is that getting way beyond an average mans with basic knowledge hands? Any tips/suggestions you'd recommend?

By any means, if you purchased your gauge face from somewhere for cheaper/simple indiglo functionality (not 10 colors or something), let me know. I'm all open ears, I'm interested in learning. :]

Take care,
Marc

 

[adidaswear]

i purchased the gauges from procarparts.com...they work great..there shipping is kinda crappy as in the gauges were sent in a cardboard box with no protection. but they do work and look great

 

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I live 20 miles away from their wherehouse in El Monte, California, and my father is a construction worker (owns his own business) and has a job on the main cross street (N Rosemead), so he's gonna pick up my order from there. They wanted to charge me $18 s/h for my corner lenses - I picked them up instead with no hassle. So I guess that'd be a little plus considering I wouldn't have to worry about poor packaging.

How's the installation on them? Simple replacement of the faces? I'm not quite sure how this kit is installed -- other than the faces, what else is there to put together? (I've taken the gauges out, just never pulled those pins out to replace the faces)

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[adidaswear]

its not too bad...black magic did mine but i took it back apart to calibrate the needles a little better....

 

[adidaswear]

u just wire them up to a power supply..when you pull the black pins out use some lineman's pliers with a piece of cloth to pull them out.

 

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Since these gauges mention a 6-stage color change -- can you set them just on one color all the time?

 

[XplorerKid]

yes, wel the ones ive seen, you have a controller, that lets you change it to the different colors.

PEACE

 

[Skeets'91EB]

I'm wanting to buy some of these gauges. They arent too bright are they? They have a dimmer, but I just want to make sure that they wont be too distracting or even annoying over time or anything. I could probably put a gauge overlay bezel to reduce some of the light if I needed to. Do the white faced A/C panels light up too?

 

[boominXplorer]

I have them and I hate them. They only come on half the time and the little push button switch is hidous! All I have to say is you pay for what you get. Thats my advise.

 

[Skeets'91EB]

hmm, maybe I'll just get a bezel instead of the gauges.