2001 Protege ES - don't like the dash lighting
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2001 Protege ES - don't like the dash lighting
Hi all,
I just picked up a 2001 Protege ES with 110k miles. It's really clean and drives great, but I was disappointed the first time I put the headlights on. Even with the gauge lighting turned all the way up I can barely read the gauges. They look incredibly dim compared to every other car I've ever had. And maybe it's my aging eyes, but I find the red-on-black really hard to read. Are there ways to change out the red lighting for white? Or else maybe remove the backlighting and front-light the gauges with white light so they look the same as in the daytime?
Thanks!
Carl
I just picked up a 2001 Protege ES with 110k miles. It's really clean and drives great, but I was disappointed the first time I put the headlights on. Even with the gauge lighting turned all the way up I can barely read the gauges. They look incredibly dim compared to every other car I've ever had. And maybe it's my aging eyes, but I find the red-on-black really hard to read. Are there ways to change out the red lighting for white? Or else maybe remove the backlighting and front-light the gauges with white light so they look the same as in the daytime?
Thanks!
Carl
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An update so far: I picked up a set of SpeedHut electro-luminescent gauges (http://www.horsepowerfreaks.com/part...e_Replica/6508) because I could get them in white on black. Unfortunately they didn't seem to fit, but while I had the cluster out I noticed that some of the bulbs that illuminate the cluster had orange "condoms" on them- I guess to get all the dash color the same. Anyway, I removed them and now the numbers are light orange instead of dark orange/red and much easier to read.
I'd still like to replace the faces entirely if I could. Has anyone managed to get them off? The gauge pointers have to come off to do it, but when I pried gently on the pointer hubs they didn't seem to want to go, and I didn't want to break them.
I'd still like to replace the faces entirely if I could. Has anyone managed to get them off? The gauge pointers have to come off to do it, but when I pried gently on the pointer hubs they didn't seem to want to go, and I didn't want to break them.
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