DIY White Face Glow Gauge Corolla 98 - 02

[RinconRolla98]

First you remove the 2 srews with a short phillips screw driver .




Then you pull up from the bottom the face cover towards the steering wheel , Do not be afraid to pull it will pop out .




If you have a tilt wheel make sure your wheel is down cause it will get tight . Then you slide the face over make sure your wiper arm switch is down .


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Once you remove the face plate there are 4 screws holding the cluster . The red arrows show where the screws are . Your gonna need a longer phillips screw driver . One with a magnetic tip will work better cause it will be to tight to put your finger in there and it might drop.




Then you remove the platic cluster cover . I have marked a blue arrow so you know where the clips are . Once you remove the plastic cover then with out touching the needles to the cluster you can remove the tiny screws , those are the ones marked in red . Make sure you don't lose these screws. Then you remove the black cover so that you can put the white glow gauges and run the wire .




Then you carefully slide the white glow gauges through the needle and you must be real careful you dont move those needles or bend them or else your will mess up the cluster . Once your done sliding the white glow gauges then you align and re-screw the tiny screws . Then you put the black cover and then you can put the clear plastic back on the cluster . Make sure your fuel one is correctly aligned !!



Then you get the positive wire and put in where the parking light fuse is located as shown with the red arrow and then the other wire you put to the ground wire .



Since I don't use this storage box and didn't want to make holes I just neatly stuck it in there and closed it up .



Then you test out your white face glow gauge and then you can just put it all back together .

[captaincorolla]

Looks great, however, install some LEDs for the needle lights while you're in there and it'll look like this:

[RinconRolla98]

Originally Posted by captaincorolla

Looks great, however, install some LEDs for the needle lights while you're in there and it'll look like this:

Good looking out bro .... I like the needle the way it glows ...

[iskate631]

where did you find a manual face? everywhere i look all i can find is the automatic face

[RinconRolla98]

Originally Posted by iskate631

where did you find a manual face? everywhere i look all i can find is the automatic face

You mean the RPM cluster , You just got to google it , It took me a long time to find it .

[TenZen]

nicely done.

[iskate631]

well that was surprisingly easy, guess i never searched that hard hah.. i found the same one but it has a toggle switch for either green or blue

[RinconRolla98]

Originally Posted by iskate631

well that was surprisingly easy, guess i never searched that hard hah.. i found the same one but it has a toggle switch for either green or blue

Good find bro , Sometimes you get lucky ...lol

[bpr288]

great thread! def put it up in the corolla FAQ sticky. itd help a lot of people id imagine. especially with putting which wires in the right fuse things and such...im not very good that that sort of thing.

[all2baka]

Looking good
I may have to do this myself seeing how inexpensive the white face indiglo are.

So you did the separate switch instead of wiring it with the headlight switch?

[GaryGoatse]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I was looking into buying one of these off of ebay. It says that it is not going to require any extra wiring like you had to do in yours. Does this look like a good buy?

[debobilador]

i did it last night but i have a very stupid question...i dont need to remove the original gauges??? what i did was took off all of it den put the white gauges ..and now my needle for the mph is 10 mph higher than its supppose to

[pker]

great job ~~
you know what`` i recognize your name
i added you as a friend on cardomain.com
how can you changed the needles thing into blue...looks really cool
and what LEDs are you using? did u changed all the lights from (Green) into LEDs(blue or white) [i mean the dash board included the clock...]?
im having trouble with changing blue lights of my car...
plz help me out

[CorollaTRD99]

i still need help. ok i have to put the new ones over the old ones right? now the problem is that im not getting the lights to glow. i dont know where to put the ground. please help me out. thanks

[2004]

Originally Posted by captaincorolla

Looks great, however, install some LEDs for the needle lights while you're in there and it'll look like this:

Please teach me how to do that please? thanks!

also many thanks to RincoRolla98 for this tutorial!