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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: CM690 on 15 August 2011, 19:41
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I've always wanted the white dials you find in some higher spec mk3's but don't' want a mileage change so I thought about getting one of these kits.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VOLKSWAGEN-VW-GOLF-Mk3-1991-1999-WHITE-DIAL-KIT-/120709181224?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item1c1ad3ef28 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VOLKSWAGEN-VW-GOLF-Mk3-1991-1999-WHITE-DIAL-KIT-/120709181224?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item1c1ad3ef28)
Dirt cheap right? :P
Well my question is my car 1.4 CL and the dials are 0-140mph which is fine but the revs side is completely different to any I can find! It goes from 0-6000rpm and the dials are either 7 or 5? Could I get a 7,000rpm kit or will that "not read correctly" obviously I know when to change gear but I want the rest of the dials to read correctly :)
What do you think? :undecided:
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personally id say stay with the spec that is original to the car, yes the revs would be inaccurate.
iv had a look and i think the only way to get your dials white is to change the clocks. iv just had a search myself. unless someone on here has already done it and they post up some links
one thing i want to know is whats the best way to make your needles the glowing orange colour.
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http://www.motorspeed.com/store_main.asp?int_catalog_id=4&int_category_id=32&int_subcategory_id=0&int_page=1&int_product_id=615&str_vehicle_id=2656 (http://www.motorspeed.com/store_main.asp?int_catalog_id=4&int_category_id=32&int_subcategory_id=0&int_page=1&int_product_id=615&str_vehicle_id=2656)
best phone em and see what they do???
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Have a look in the maint section. A few have changed leds and backlit the needles to glow different colours but I cant be arsed to find the link! :grin: Another way to light the needles is to use florescent paint on em.
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Have a look in the maint section. A few have changed leds and backlit the needles to glow different colours but I cant be arsed to find the link! :grin: Another way to light the needles is to use florescent paint on em.
aint a halfrauds jobbie is it?
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I suppose you could if you dont mind orange, pink or yellow. :sick:
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I did a guide a while ago:
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=181457.0 (http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=181457.0)
Sold the car with these in, really should have swapped them and let someone else have them :cry:
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Have a look in the maint section. A few have changed leds and backlit the needles to glow different colours but I cant be arsed to find the link! :grin: Another way to light the needles is to use florescent paint on em.
aint a halfrauds jobbie is it?
Ive purchased uv fishing float paint in the past, the colour is spot on. Failing that there's,also a seller on eBay based in the USA that sells proper UV needle paint for a few quid which I've also had and tbh there wasn't much difference in colour or night visibility.
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These are the proper clocks that you are looking for : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-GOLF-MK3-SPEEDO-SPEEDOMETER-1H0-919-913-C-/270732816240?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3f08eeef70
Ive been a bit of a speedo geek since I've owned this last mk3 and seem to keep aquiring different ones to pull apart or modify.
I've now got a couple of standard ones, 1 8v Annie set, 1 16v Annie set and another set of 16v with silver lockwood faces and tweaked lighting. LOL :nerd:
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Thanks, damn they're cheap :O but I'd rather keep my original mileage hence the dial kit :( though these are very tempting indeed
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Heres the proper 1.4 clocks not cheap mind.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-GOLF-MK-3-1-4-SILVER-DIALS-SPEEDO-SPEEDOMETER-CLOCKS-/160476073181?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item255d1e8cdd#ht_743wt_905
Then get someone with vag tacho to change your mileage.Tis simples :evil:
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vag tacco wont work for mk3
i can get them doen but it costs about 30 quid
was a set of 8v annie clocks forsale at VW festival for 10 quid :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
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My 8v anni set only cost me £12 inc p&p however the 16v anni set were £40 inc p&p, both from eBay.
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got 16v annie ones in mine - i got them for free, kind of haha, swapped them with a annie owner for some made up dials that i had loads of spare parts haha, they are worth alot, one guy told me 200 quid...
anyhow, i sold my old modified 8v annie ones for 70 quid
have you a pic of your 16v ones
here is mine
(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5861/imagezox.jpg)
and my old 8v ones side by side with the 16v ones, different red lines etc
(http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/1296/imagehss.jpg)
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kells, did you say that you can get dials like yours? obv i dont need the S3 badge as im going to be running on VR power :laugh:
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kells, did you say that you can get dials like yours? obv i dont need the S3 badge as im going to be running on VR power :laugh:
Not for vr you can't mate as mine are from a 16v Annie whichbi added the S3 logo to. And with yours been a vr u can't even use the faces coz the revs are different on a vr. You would have to get Lockwood ones which in silver look similar but the orange parts is red and it has Lockwood written across the front, I spoke to them and they could make them without but it would cost £200, this is what I was gonna do till I found my 160mph Annie ones
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iv only just realised, my rev finish at 7k whereas yours has a few hundred rpm left to go
GUTTED looool, i want a few hundred rpm more :cry:
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7.5 on my 16v clocks which is same as the S3 clocks, although the Leon cuupra R clocks go upto 8k (same engine as S3)
Vr6 dont rev to as much and is same as 8v which rev to 7K as u say
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Sayin that I need to get the cnut running first lol :laugh: