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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: bomp on 13 January 2007, 17:59
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I have just put some white dials on my clocks, (Golf MK2 Ryder) but I had to get a speedo from a Golf MK2
with the two plugs that fit into clocks, because the speedo dial didn't match my dial face (Single plug type).
The speedo I now have, is 30K miles less than my original ones, but I want to put the milage foward to
the same milage as my original one, as I want the milage to look legit as from previous MOT's.
My plan is to wind the clock foward with a battery drill, but I don't know which direction to do it?
Looking at the back of the speedo, do I wind the clock foward in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction?
Thanks in advance
bomp
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Would it not just be quicker to try turning it each way and see what happens???
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I did that once before some years ago, with a motorbike speedo, but when I wound it backwards I heard a click and the digits never lined up properly after that. (A good indicator that the clocks have been messed with)
I don't fancy wrecking my MK2 speedo.
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Your problem is that you're too honest :laugh: Think of the advantage when you come to sell it!
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you can just swap the speedos over, unscrew the face from the white dial set & fit to your old speedo. Other option is to clock it, which is easy to do once the face is off, will become obvious what to do ;)
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Well I put the dial faces on, and may not bother changing the mileage. (No need to take the dial faces or needles off with the ones I bought.
I wired the Dial LED's to go on when I turn the lights on, but didn't use a live ignition wire as instructed by the little manual. I painted the needles flourescent red, and put 3x 4volt Ultraviolet LED's protected with a 470-Ohm resistor. I'm using one of the original bulb holders as the power source (modified it) and I might put anther 3 UV Leds in (by using the other bulb holder) to light the needles a bit better
Daylight, lights off.
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p89/bomp_bucket/daylight01.jpg)
Daylight, lights on, UV LEDS off
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p89/bomp_bucket/daylight-uv-leds-off01.jpg)
Daylight, lights on, UV LEDS on
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p89/bomp_bucket/daylight-uv-leds-on01.jpg)
Night, lights on, UV LEDS off
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p89/bomp_bucket/night-uv-leds-off01.jpg)
Night, lights on, UV LEDS on
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p89/bomp_bucket/night-uv-leds-on01.jpg)
Sorry about the blur in the night pics, I don't know how to avoid with my camera.
Also the colour of the blue isn't as pale in real life as what it has come out like in the pics.
It's a joy to see my dials at night now.
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that is soo cool. how did u get the dials to light up from behind.
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that is soo cool. how did u get the dials to light up from behind.
I bought the dial faces off someone called cromemanics on ebay £35.99 + £3.00 postage
They're a thin plastic dial cover that fit over/onto the original dials. They allready have LED's on them so it's just a matter of wiring one wire to an earth and one wire to a live. They also change colour to a pale green with a flick of a switch and the brightness can be adjusted via a potentiometer (both allready attatched to the dials with a relay)
But I had to go to a scrappy and get a speedo off another MK2 because the digits in the mile counter at the bottom didn't line up. (I knew that before I ordered them because I scaled a photo of my dial with the photo that he's got online, with AutoCAD.
The inner centre (Looks white) and outer ring (By the numbers) turns a pale green that is, and not the numbers. The numbers turn a little darker blue when the switch is flicked over.
Also notice that I had to add two new screw holes in the tacho cover because mine was also different.