Replacing Dials




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You now need to remove the needles. Take your time with this and be careful because if you pull out the metal pin when taking off the needles you're pretty much screwed!

A few people have said to use a fork or a spoon or knife to prise the needles off at each corner around in 360degrees. I tried this and I was getting nowhere so i pulled up gently and twisted anti-clockwise and they come off after a few rotations. Much easier this way. You really do have to be careful with this though.

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You should now have all the needles off.
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Remove the original film.

I fitted the birba dials which had adhesive bits on the back of the film which will help you stick onto the white plastic.

Now replace the needles.
The speedometer and rev counter are the easier ones. If you lay the original film over the new film you can mark off the position of the pencil mark onto the white plastic which won't be seen.
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Then place the needles on the dials pointing to this spot.

For the fuel and engine temp you might be better of using a ruler to measure the distance between the empty/coldest mark to the resting point you marked on with pencil earlier.

Once you're done you need to put the cluster back together.
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connect the cluster to the wiring loom to make sure everythings alright. speedometer should read zero etc. Relate this to the photo you took earlier.

Put everything back in reverse order.
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