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Is it possible to change the color of the green digital gauge on a 94 continental?? is it just a colored plastic or many colored bulbs?? and how easy would it be to do this.. i want to make them blue instead/
Posted by: DJ Kontakt
it would be very very hard to do!
Ive taken apart the dash and cluster of the car, changing the color of the guages is much harder than it would seem.
Posted by: MichiganTeddyBear
yes, tough job. I think I had posted a basic outline of what to do before LvC got hacked and lost a few weeks posts.
but after taking cluster out, and taking apart, you need to remove the LCD panels themselves (they are glass, very thin, and very delicate). the green color film is stuck to one side of these. you would have to remove them, then put a different color film on. Not an easy job, and like I said, the LCD panels are not the strongest things on the car. Also, the film you use has to allow light thru, as these clusters are light from behind by regular incandescant lights. The exception here is the radio and climate control, which have there own systems.
the climate control cannot be color swapped to my knowledge, it is a true flourescent display, and the radio might be one also, depending on exact radio installed
Posted by: lilwheezy75
yea i have a pioneer headunit.. its blue.. and it is bright.. and then everyhting else is green
Posted by: MichiganTeddyBear
its not impossible to change the color, just probably very tough. and as far as I know there is NO way to change the climate control color.
I remember seeing a link someplace about changing color of digital dash on Thunderchickens (T-bird), if I find it will repost it here. while not the same, it might provide some insight. I also don't remember any specifics about the steps needed to do the thunderbird dash.
the headunit I get for my 91 (if I ever can) will have multiple color options. example would be sony CDX-5710 (I think thats one of them). Not that I would get that unit, but it has multicolor backlighting.
Posted by: 95CrownVictoriaP74
IIRC, changing the 194 type light bulbs behind the dash clusters of these cars is difficult enough....I oughta know, I did mine in my old '89 Continental. A real pisser.
Posted by: MichiganTeddyBear
changing the bulbs won't change the color to what you would expect. The green dash is achieved with a green filter that is attatched to the actual LCD panels themselves. the lights are standard color (yellow/white).
