Odometer Swap... and more - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

RedPhoenix · 09-24-2005, 05:57 PM

Basically my white gauges are fucked up, I dont want them anymore and i want to go back to my black gauges. My cluster is all glued on and crap so it looks bad. I want to buy a new cluster. Can I transplant my original spedometer/odometer section into the new cluster and then take the new black gauge face and put it on my original spedometer without removing the needle?

ekim55121 · 09-24-2005, 09:11 PM

do able yes
pain in the ass yes
worth it totally will you regret it no

RedPhoenix · 09-25-2005, 09:05 AM

thanks, bump

88 LE · 09-25-2005, 09:16 AM

If you swap the gauge face, your gunna have to pull off the needle.

I would see if you can swap just the odometer (the part with the numbers) over to the new speedo / odometer. Might be easier then pulling off the needle and worrying about it not lining backup correctly or breaking the needle.

***DAMON*** · 09-25-2005, 10:53 AM

I was thinking about this exact same thing earlier today... Im sick of mine too, theyre more trouble than theyre worth.

free bump

RedPhoenix · 09-25-2005, 11:09 AM

For some reason I thought swapping it would make it fall apart for safety reasons

Ill give it a looksee, but i think im going to wind up buying one that has 97k on the ODO while mine has just over 100K, so I guess there is no harm in that right?

87Camry5Speed · 09-25-2005, 02:23 PM

It's hard to turn the new odo back but it can be done. Only if you feel you must, though- when we swapped clusters in my gen2, the donor car's cluster had nearly 180k on the odo. At the time my Cam only had like 123k on it. We got it to within a few hundred miles.

I don't know what the DMV regs are in Fl, but since your car is over 10 yrs old I know that in NY mileage doesn't matter if you ever planned to sell the car. So, swapping to a cluster with only a few thousand miles' difference is only going to matter to you!

Cliffnotes:
1. Swapping clusters with only a few thousand miles differnece = Ok!

Steve

95WhiteCamry · 09-25-2005, 02:23 PM

if you swap out the whole gauge cluster, don't you need to go to the dealership so they give you a sticker saying your true milage versus the one on the cluster?

also, what kind of problems are you getting ith the white faced gaues? not working right or...?

***DAMON*** · 09-25-2005, 02:40 PM

its more like what problems dont the white faces cause haha. theyre just really jenky... always kind of snagging and dragging, mine are wired crappy and they made all of my climate control lighs go out again... i dunno, they suck. Theyre not worth all of the effort to make em work. Ok, now everyone tell me theyre really easy to do right. come on, go for it.

amerikim · 09-25-2005, 10:04 PM

Hind sight ...I would not do the whitefaces again.

They look okay but they do warp. I opened up on a deserted stretch of freeway today and it snagged at about 80. The tach warps a little but the speedo warps more because of the cutouts for the odometer and tripmeter..
I got the stupid ones that light up in the middle cause I couldnt find the ones that didnt. Found 'em later though.

Maybe I will order a set and see if I can do it better.
I never had problems on the whiteface with the electric side of things.
I agree with the needle coming off to change the original faceplate.
Yup, DMV has a record of your milage.

RedPhoenix · 09-26-2005, 05:05 AM

Well, i got the car at 95k and since then I have had no record of milage, being I do everything myself and all. I just won one that has 97K so I think it will be okay, just 3K miles off, not a big deal