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Obviously you can get coloured dash gauge mat thingers for nearly every car (speedo/odo/fuel etc)

I heard somewhere that in the case of you not finding what you want/being cheap you can just have your old ones reprinted in different colours by the local sign-guy (just on clear plastic/paper?)

Is this possible? I hope this makes sense.

I'd try it myself but pulling my dash apart isn't very appealing if there's going to be no love.

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I realise that, but I drive a Stagea, which is only a little bit different in the dash, ( but enough to make things difficult) plus I'm sure they wouldn't have gold ones with Doraemon appliques on them :thumbsup:

are they just make of thin plastic or what? Like - could they easily be copied?

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its just a stepper motor driven by a voltage, I don't see why not, as long as you have a sensor (pressure, temp etc) that can operate in the application you choose you should be good to go. Try autometer, they have sensors and gauges for almost anything.

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Obviously you can get coloured dash gauge mat thingers for nearly every car (speedo/odo/fuel etc)

I heard somewhere that in the case of you not finding what you want/being cheap you can just have your old ones reprinted in different colours by the local sign-guy (just on clear plastic/paper?)

Is this possible? I hope this makes sense.

I'd try it myself but pulling my dash apart isn't very appealing if there's going to be no love.

Hi there. If it is re-made/painted/scaled dials you require whilst retaining your existing gauges then check out the Process Instrument/Dial gauge companies or high end silk screening guys in the yellow pages. You will most likely need to present your existing or proposed gauges & your design of course. Being one off it could be expensive.

My 2c.

Cheers GW

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Silk screening you say...

I was going to traipse around to all the sign companies but I think I'll play hypotheticals with them first, to prevent me from pulling everything out for nothing.

I'll see what I can do about fining silkscreeners, since the city I'm in only has 30k people, and Im 600km from the nearest capital.

Cheers 260tech, very helpful!

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