Red instrument panels?

[Allen K. Littlefield]

keep your white gauges as it will make the car a lot easier to sell someday in the future. Not many are into Red gauges so You may consider keeping them for greater resale value. Anything I do to my Boxster I will save the original pieces for a future sale date as stock means best prices on resale.

986geezer

[RandallNeighbour]

I found all sorts of red gauge faces on the FVD site. You need to first put in your car's model and year, then go down the right side and find "interior" and look there.

The way their site is setup, I cannot give you a direct link.

You might get a hundred bucks for the white gauges on eBay, providing you transfer them to the backing stuff that comes with your new gauges. New white gauge faces run $125-400 if that helps.

[aBsOlUt]

Originally Posted by Allen K. Littlefield

keep your white gauges as it will make the car a lot easier to sell someday in the future. Not many are into Red gauges so You may consider keeping them for greater resale value. Anything I do to my Boxster I will save the original pieces for a future sale date as stock means best prices on resale.

986geezer

Thanks for the tip, good idea. Maybe I wont like the red gauges installed after sometime!

[ukchris]

I'm experimenting with making gauge faces, my first test run should be done this week which are based on the cluster design up to 2000 but, if they work, I should be able to make them to fit any cluster.

Here is an example...



Chris.

Here is an example of the yellow gauges:

[ukchris]

I made these...


Sadly the idea isn't so hot with the lights on, I think I need an opaque layer in there to manage the back lighting better:


I have some other colors I've made up too so I'll experiment a bit and see how it breaks up the lighting.

Chris.

[super66]

Originally Posted by bmussatti

Here is an example of the yellow gages:

b, do you have yellow or white faces? I am considering switching to white(silver I'm told) if I can get them, if yours are white, how are they when lit?

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by super66

b, do you have yellow or white faces? I am considering switching to white(silver I'm told) if I can get them, if yours are white, how are they when lit?

What do you have now, black?

[super66]

Originally Posted by Grizzly

What do you have now, black?

yeah, I got the standad faces on the base.....I wanted to switch to white on the spot but the parts "expert" didn't know if he could order them....so I have the base black faces

Originally Posted by super66

b, do you have yellow or white faces? I am considering switching to white(silver I'm told) if I can get them, if yours are white, how are they when lit?

Hey Super66, I have the standard white/silver gauges on the Boxster S. At night-time, depending on the ambient lighting conditions, they kind of vacillate from being back-lit to front-lit. Very are very easy to read. Sorry I can't give a better description, I really don't drive the Boxster much at night.

[super66]

Originally Posted by bmussatti

Sorry I can't give a better description, I really don't drive the Boxster much at night.

B! when do you drive this thing! you store it for the wniter and don't drive it at night, you've seriously got a great looking ride, I don't know how you can deal with not driving it....I would go nuts

I know I'm asking a lot, but if you have any pics of it with the top up, I'd be curious to see it with the cocoa top......