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Hi Guys,

My car arrives in march and i want to put some EL dials in for the speedo etc you know the type im talking about. Where is best to buy? Somewhere local or import, and who specifically?

Also i heard doing it can very possibly f**k up your dial and needle calibration... is this a real issue, or more of a beat up? I guess im interested to know what is involved in installing the EL dials and whether i should get it professionally done?

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www.modyourcar.com.au sells em for the R33. If you get them fitted professionally you'll have no worries, but that being said, pleanty have fitted them at home and never had any problems.

Steve

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if ur the Impatient type of person,

DIY is a NO NO,

got be gentle with those things,

I screwed up my needle once, cos it was hard to get it off, used a bit of force,

resulted: 2nd Cluster, :D

on a mirage tho,

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zxfire is right.. i recently bought some cyber stork dials and i was finding it dificult to cut them out so i just pulled my needles off and now they aint gonna ever work again :D so yeh either get buy some good ones and get them installed or dont do it

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because the EL sheet , on top of the standard dials makes it thicker, and the needle catches....i've heard of people fixing this problem with different techniques, but personally i wouldnt risk breaking my needles etc...

note, havent heard about this happening so much on EL dials, more so on reverse EL as i think they are thicker again.

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zxfire is right.. i recently bought some cyber stork dials and i was finding it dificult to cut them out so i just pulled my needles off and now they aint gonna ever work again ;) so yeh either get buy some good ones and get them installed or dont do it

I live in Japan, so I could probably pick something up for you. give me a shout back if your interested.

cheers,

Mike

www.j-styleinc.com

mass iv -> you should have ordered the pre-cut meters by Cyberstork, then you wouldn't have had a problem slipping the meters over the needles. B)

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