i have an early classic and i find the dash hard to read at night, i had the original bulbs in and thought they were bad so did a blue led conversion and think they are just as bad, any ideas or help would be most appreciated

 

Yea had the same problem, tried the led's by themself. Then went for the lockwood white dial kit.







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After doing all that above, I went a bought myself a gps snooper. That displays my mph anyway and sits just above the speedo housing.

To be honest Ive never updated it, I 99% of the time use it for the speed display. As its easier to see where Ive got it set.

 

its mainly the fuel side i want to see as i have a gps detector i use for speed and revs well i can tell if im revvin it really cant i! lol

 

any more ideas people as want to sort this out if poss?

 

Forgot to say, in the white dial kit you do get the white faces for the fuel and temp. Just that I didnt do them.

Subaru Impreza MPH KMH Speedo meter clocks. Dials white & coloured

 

has anybody done them and found it helps to see the fuel gauge?

 

What are these like to fit? Easy enough job or a bit complicated. I had a Toyota Starlet and getting the dials out was a really fiddly annoying job.

 

i only just looked fully at the white dial kit pic, the needles are still hard to see.
i want to be able to tell how much fuel i have left without havein to stick my head against the dials to see it. any help on this would be helpfull cheers

 

hey guys any ideas on this?

 

ok bare with me with this please
i keep seeing this topic mentioned about the poor lighting,on the classsic dashboards.ok when you put in standard bulbs are they not white???? but yet you get a green lillumination,if you take the dash out then the back of the clocks off there are little cups which the bulbs shine through,to get the colour surely if you take the these little cups out you will have a much brighter light.........

ceri

p.s. thats what i did on my mk 2 escort

 

Sort of.

Take the bulbs out, they have a bluey green condom type thing over them. Remove the condom and the light is better. I'll go and take a pic.

I also went down the LED route, then had a brainwave.

 

Normal un-condom'd bulbs;



I need to get some petrol.

 

thats right i remeber now,when my bulb went in the fog light switch the original had a bit of rubber on it so i went for a yellow bulb from maplins.fair play mate your idea does make a difference(but do they still have the little cups)never had the clocks out so dont know.
yours does look much better

what was the brainwave by the way????


ceri

 

The brainwave was that the LED's were shite and didn't illuminated the clocks very well.

Look good, but that's all.

Little cups, not sure mate. It was a rush swap so I wasn't really looking.

 

Hello, when i bought my classic scooby about a year ago and I had the same problem, the lights are dull. So In my wisdom i pulled the clocks out and i also removed the green condom things off. To be honest it didn't make that much of a difference and I was really disappointed with the out come!

I wanted bright blue lights in my dash but when I pulled it all apart and then found out i needed odd shaped bulbs i had to put the car back together as I needed to use it!

Would pull it apart again but the speedo was a nightmare to get back on so i'll leave it, Gutted!