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DIY DIY White Face Glow Gauge Corolla 98 - 02

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    RinconRolla98 Well-Known Member

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    DIY White Face Glow Gauge Corolla 98 - 02

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    First you remove the 2 srews with a short phillips screw driver .


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    Then you pull up from the bottom the face cover towards the steering wheel , Do not be afraid to pull it will pop out .


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    If you have a tilt wheel make sure your wheel is down cause it will get tight . Then you slide the face over make sure your wiper arm switch is down .

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    Once you remove the face plate there are 4 screws holding the cluster . The red arrows show where the screws are . Your gonna need a longer phillips screw driver . One with a magnetic tip will work better cause it will be to tight to put your finger in there and it might drop.


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    Then you remove the platic cluster cover . I have marked a blue arrow so you know where the clips are . Once you remove the plastic cover then with out touching the needles to the cluster you can remove the tiny screws , those are the ones marked in red . Make sure you don't lose these screws. Then you remove the black cover so that you can put the white glow gauges and run the wire .


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    Then you carefully slide the white glow gauges through the needle and you must be real careful you dont move those needles or bend them or else your will mess up the cluster . Once your done sliding the white glow gauges then you align and re-screw the tiny screws . Then you put the black cover and then you can put the clear plastic back on the cluster . Make sure your fuel one is correctly aligned !!


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    Then you get the positive wire and put in where the parking light fuse is located as shown with the red arrow and then the other wire you put to the ground wire .


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    Since I don't use this storage box and didn't want to make holes I just neatly stuck it in there and closed it up .


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    Then you test out your white face glow gauge and then you can just put it all back together .
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    MacktasticSlick TRD whore with 36,000 posts, bitch

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    Everything you did looks the same as I did mine, except for a couple things. Since I put stuff in my storage box, I just put the dimmer behind the box, that way I can still use it. Although for the first week or so, it was sitting just like yours. And also, I don't understand what you did with the fuses? I didn't mess with mine at all...
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    All I did was connect the positive wire there cause I didnt want to splice wires :)
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    Hmm... still don't get it but mine work perfectly fine so I'm not gonna worry to much lol.
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    I didnt do anything to my fuses , I got the power source for the glow gauge from the parking light fuse :)
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    I've never seen anyone run a wire to a fuse like that lol. But I don't know anything about wiring or anything electrical, so who knows :)
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    How else would the guage light up ?? Using AA batteries ?? LOL :)
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    Well I just connected mine to the wires for the dimmer switch, and it works fine for me. I can adjust the light in the background, and I can make the indiglo dimmer too.
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    where do you get the set to mod the gauge?
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    I can do that to , I just guess everyone does there own way , It all comes down to is that it works and we help each other :)
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    What do you mean? Like the brightness?
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    oh crap, i must've been talking and typing at the same time. I don't even kno wth i'm asking.

    I meant, where do you buy the white face glow gauge?
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    I found some on ebay, but i like the red gauge look
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    I got mine on ebay as well. like 20 bucks, good deal.
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    do you have a link? i can't find the one with the tach.
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    i found just the white covers for my car, but they're trying to flog them off for 70 bucks!
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    I had to get the kind w/o a tach, but here's a link to one that has a tachometer.

    here you go
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    question..01 clusters wit/tach's dont fit with 98-00 ok??

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