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yeah. put them into photoshop. im hoping they will scan in. i want white ones and the price of them is ridiculous
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Mate your a genius haha.. Just edit them and print them out and put them over the standard ones?

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Lol. Thanks. I wasn't paying 30 quid for those Lockwood ones for some white card! Yeah I'm gonna figure something out. :) but I'm definitely gonna post them on here for everybody :D
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Was going to ask for that. And you dont have a rev gauge do ya?

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No. My wiring loom doesn't have the green wire for the rev counter. At the moment not gonna bother wiring it up. Too much to do.
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I have no rev gauge either so im a happy bunny right now if you can photoshop up some clocks :P was just thinking would the dash lights come through if you just stuck paper clocks over standard ones?

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stanc3w0rks wrote:I have no rev gauge either so im a happy bunny right now if you can photoshop up some clocks :P was just thinking would the dash lights come through if you just stuck paper clocks over standard ones?

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No they wouldn't and that's why nobody has uploaded them,

the Lockwoods are 30 quid because they work and if it was that easy everyone would be selling them
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Lol. Well I figured no one else has done it. So if it works why not let everyone have it. :D Well the original dials are metal of all things! So what I was thing is carefully cut out all the numbers etc so the lights do come through.
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Yea hope it works out. But white clocks with white numbers? :P i was thinking some red headlight tint or something between the clocks and your custom clocks to make the numbers stand out? Just a thought :)

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Well no. I will reverse the colours. Black becomes white. White becomes black. :) I'll let ya know when I get it done.
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It's not metal it's a special plastic that's hard like metal but it transparent

I'm not having a go at you put I think your wasting your time, your not the first to try this and you won't be the last but if it worked it would be common knowledge at this stage :lol:
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Ive got tigra clocks in mine and the black goes well with the silver surround i have some with a rev counter goin if there's interest and the surround has been done in carbon vinyl
If it ain't green and black send it back :D
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Thats true but while its free its worth a shot mate init :)

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No. It's metal. I have personally had them out and been touching them. It's metal. It's also not transparent. It's solid black. But I'll give it a go anyway.
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newbiecorsa wrote:No. It's metal. I have personally had them out and been touching them. It's metal. It's also not transparent. It's solid black. But I'll give it a go anyway.
If it's not transparent how does it light up? Obviously the black part isn't transparent it's not ment to be otherwise you wouldn't see the numbers, the black part is like half a mil thick and is a cover so that the numbers stand out
If it doesn't fit,
force it,
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It needed replacing anyway :thumbs:
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