Instrument needles

[92talon_nt]

Hey,
I got a 92 Eagle Talon non turbo. Its black and I got a lime neon green color scheme goin along with the black. I got alotta green accents and neons. Well anyway, I was wondering if there was any way available out there where i could take my stock orange instrument needles and get them to be lime green. I also wanna replace all the orange running lights inside the car (they come on when you open the door) with green ones. I thought this might be a cool project to start with. If anyone knows lemme know, thanks!

 

[Slipstream]

Try running a search for led or dash lights or cluster or needle
http://dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157303
http://dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5282

 

[talontsiawd]

Other models of similar years of mitsubishi cars have green backlighting. It isn't a lime grean or super bright like leds but would save you a ton of trouble. I know 95 or 96 galants had green backlighting.

 

[Aurora-Hybrid]

I have the same color scheme in my Eclipse. I took each needle off and sanded the orange off of them and then clear coated them to make them clear. Then I painted the needled green on the backside only. Its kinda green....but it was HARDLY what I expected. If you do that I sudgest you mark the gauge faces to where the needles are b4 you put them back so your speedometer, Tach, Gas gauge, Temp...ect. aren't thrown off. I didn't do so and I ran out of gas on the side of the road because I didn't realize my gas gauge was off. Good luck

 

[devlish]

for the needles.... take them out and using a razor blade scrape the orange color off the back. get a lime green permanant marker and recolor them. or, from a hobby store, a tranluscent lime green paint. color or paint only the backsides of the needles. worked good to make mine nice and red!

~Kurt

 

[goalieman24]

anyone have some pics of needles that have been colored?? both daytime and lit up would be nice

 

[pc talon]

Here are mine, I painted the needles w/ some Testors model paint. I used Import Intelligence needle LEDs. The stock bulbs just didn't do it for me w/ the red paint.

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Here is just red paint and stock 194 bulbs in the cluster lighting them up.

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[MattyD]

You could get the import intelligence needle kit in green. Jsut do as others said and paint the backs of your needles green first. go to www.importintelligence.com I'll try to post a pic for you.

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~Matty D