Grand Am instrument cluster color change

[richardg]

It's been awhile since I've posted on this forum and I have been working on a lot of things and this is one of them.


I've gotten tired of the old orange or redish look of the interior so I had been planing on changing the color to a blue & white combo. Just finished soldering in LED for the cluster.








I'll change the needles to red later and adjust the LEDs.

I didn't take a picture of before and after since it was stock but my wife took a picture when it "rolled" 199999 to 200000. I bought this car at 189k with shot bearing because coolant leaked in but it has plenty of life left in it now. Anyway, she mashed these two pictures together to show contrast.



Never realized how bad phone photos can be until now.

[crash93ssei]

That looks really nice!

[nos4blood70]

Wonderful job! Looks much better and more contemporary.

[RJolly87]

That looks Awesome!

But Captain Skeptic is curious, why does the font look different?

[richardg]

bought a new gauge face, added blue where desired, added LED strips, removed the bulbs and soldered the led strips to the bulb spots to maintain dimmer ability/auto on with the lights. Also, the before has the "boobs" and the after has it removed.