Anyway to change my needle to green? Attn TRDCAMRY! - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

GreCam96 · 01-15-2002, 01:01 PM

How do I make it so my gauges and NEEDLE is green??? since I have a green cam.. I wanted tro make the gauges and inside green..

speedemn · 01-15-2002, 01:22 PM

I guess you could buy a green needle?!

Or you could paint yours.

But this job isn't as easy as it may seem. If I am not mistaken, the needle is quite sensitive and leave alone taking it off, even touching or obstructing its natural movement in any way can totally f*** up your gauge. So be careful, or add on the cost of a recalibration if you plan on going ahead with the removal.

GreCam96 · 01-15-2002, 01:37 PM

How much for recallibration?

speedemn · 01-15-2002, 01:46 PM

Not sure exactly but I think I need to have it done because when we installed my indiglos, the idiot that was holding up the right side of the gauges dropped it and it had 3M tape on the other side so it stuck on about 10 degrees off just on the right side... so when I'm going like 160 it looks like I'm going 170 or something like that! haha

I don't know if that can be corrected in my case since the left side of the gauges is accurate but the right side is off.

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On 2002-01-15 14:37, GreCam96 wrote:
How much for recallibration?

']['R][) camry · 01-15-2002, 10:11 PM

You can get clear needles and put a green LED behind them, there is a site that sells hyper blue needles for the 97+ camry but that doesn't help us much... Don't remember the site though

***SCEPTER300RR*** · 01-15-2002, 10:18 PM

the needles are not for sale only selling the light kit for it... that's why it maynot work with ur stuff...

GreCam96 · 01-15-2002, 10:43 PM

okie..thnx

TRD 4Runner · 01-15-2002, 11:27 PM

How can the needle get screwed up? I thought that speedo needles have a spinning cable inside a thick wire where one side is connected to a drive wheel and the other is connected the speedo gauge. The cable is spun by the drive wheel, which in turn spins a magnet in the gauge that moves the needle up and down. The only thing the needle is hooked up to is a hinge with a return spring.
This is why sometimes if you stop very fast and look down at the speedo, it might still be travelling downwards, indicating a speed, while you have already stopped- this happens when the magnet has stopped spinning, but the return spring is not fast enough.

I was able to find this speedo wire on my friends car cos his footwell is, well, exposed...if you twist it, you can make the speedo jump. I don't see how touching it would throw off it's calibration...the calibration is all in the return spring tension.

TRD 4Runner · 01-15-2002, 11:31 PM

Oh, you want green needles?
BMW has white needles that would light to any colour you want them to...you have to change needle (possibly cut down to size as well) and slap a green light filter where light enters the needle and it will turn green!

speedemn · 01-16-2002, 12:04 AM

I mean that the spring mechanism is sensitive and you can throw it off or exert unwanted force on it quite easily while playing with the needle.

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I was able to find this speedo wire on my friends car cos his footwell is, well, exposed...if you twist it, you can make the speedo jump. I don't see how touching it would throw off it's calibration...the calibration is all in the return spring tension.

***SCEPTER300RR*** · 01-16-2002, 02:51 AM

yup anish is right a slight touch of it and u lost the accuracy of the spring itself.. when that is gone even the movement of the magnet ( against the resistnance of the spring) would be off because the reisistance has changed...

']['R][) camry · 01-17-2002, 01:23 PM

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