Losing the Orange, gauge face change

[SnakeyesTx]

Just curious if anyone's done these or used them before (or now that you see them... want to do this). I'd like to de-orange my E39 a little bit since there's just so much of it in there. I was planning on the gauges and since the headunit is coming out a lot of orange will vanish there. I think the only remaining orange will be the a/c controls and the overhead led's that illuminate the shifter which is fine with me to have a little contrast and balance.

So have any of you tried these? How difficult was the teardown and reassemble? I've tried taking my E39 gauges apart a bit and got about halfway through and hit a roadblock with separating the back with the needle's motors, to the front with the clear plastic.

[repenttokyo]

personally, the font used on those gauges is about 30 years older than is appropriate for your e39...

[t.wak]

Never knew honda made an E34 Civic. Sweeeet

[SnakeyesTx]

Ideally I would have like to find similar to stock gauges with the later model VW colors (purple numbers/red needles) but I figure to have something a little different than the plain boring orange I've been looking at for 3 years, on bimmers and a few years on pontiac's and 1 on a jeep, that it'd be a refreshing change with the polished rings around their borders.

[BMWDriver]

What's the word I'm looking for... hmmm... bling ! Yeah that's it: bling !

These look pretty agressive to me.

I ain't no help here, but taking out the cluster is always a bit of a delicate thing to do - mind you I only know of the e34. The less I do it, the better I feel.

[dauchande]

What's the word I'm looking for... hmmm... bling ! Yeah that's it: bling !

These look pretty agressive to me.

I ain't no help here, but taking out the cluster is always a bit of a delicate thing to do - mind you I only know of the e34. The less I do it, the better I feel.

Huh, I was thinking of the word, Gaudy...

Now a heads up display would be worth the trouble to install, especially one with the Mach 5's infared mode.

[Qube]

Ugh. Forget that! Do THIS:



See here: http://www.speedofixer.co.uk/bmw_led_e39.htm

[GoldenOne]

Ugh. Forget that! Do THIS:



See here: http://www.speedofixer.co.uk/bmw_led_e39.htm

Looks like somebody might be overheating lol

[bimmerd00d]

well this looks like an Escalade.

[attack eagle]

Those luminescent gauges are el crappo and a real pain to install.
everyone I know who is over 20 has taken them back out as soon as the novelty wore off... or has had to buy a second cluster after breaking the first during disassembly during install or removal.