i tried to put them on today and ended up breaking my temperature needle....
so white face gauges up for sale $20 + shipping takes them

 

lol.

lesson learned: dont try to put ricey shit on your car. the gods will not be appeased.

 

does anyone know if i have to buy the whole gauge cluster or can i just replace the temperature part?

 

after the little test drive after i put it back together, i realised how much i like the stock gauge

 

lol yehp. white faces always look ricey to me, same thing goes with those chrome gauge rings. if you want to be different, solder on some red LEDs to the back of your gauge. i think hybrid did that. looks hot. SOOOO JDM!. lol

 

no soldering required i believe

 

your best bet is to find a used cluster from a honda accord and swap the temp gauge

 

i actually found acouple 97 cl gauges, but the odometer will be messed up for i got a accord cluster cheap instead

 

same shit happened to me. i got some for real cheap so i wanted to see what they looked like. i tried it first on my temp gauge and broke the needle right off. right after that i said fuck it. so i got no temp gauge. you can probobly find a gauge cluster for like 75-100 bucks. i'm holdin out for something cheaper...

 

every cluster i find is in mph...i need kph - and its not because i want to be JDM

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1997-...QQcmdZViewItem
hurry bid

 

i broke my fuel level gauge while putting in the LEDs (dropped the mofo cluster).... special ordered it from Southcoast Acura for $39.00.... everything is fixed....

check with your dealers....it's an easy fix..

 

does this fit our car???

 

accord clusters are the same as ours
was yours $39 with labor?

 

I put it back in myself
39.99 for parts shipped to the dealer...

 

If you don't bid in time, talk to starboy2nv he has like 5 gauge clusters for sale

And yes you do have to replace the whole thing, IMO led's is the way to go, I bought a set of gauge faces and they weren't for me, i never even installed em, i just sold em to paylahata8 for half what i paid for em cuz i wanted the black gauge look. Threw some green led bulbs in there and it was perfect, and much improved

Oh and don't pay anyone to do it, i've taken mine in and out like 5 times, it's real easy there's a diy if you can't find it lemme know

 

thanks for the heads up guys

 

can i just take the temp gauge from this and use it in my cluster?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...0233&rd=1&rd=1

 

open up the gauge set, the temp can be replaced. Keep everything else so your mileage lines up and you dont have sell it down the road and mark on the title that the odometer isn't correct. That could hurt any resale value down the road.

 

Yes

 

There's 2 screws holding it in from the front, maybe somethin in the back, but it will come apart, hope that was u that won the bid

 

yeah, i got the winning bid for that one.....should come in weds.

 

would it be easier to just transfer my speedometer over to the new cluster since i broke the glass, and the clip that holds the metal bracket as well

 

Depends on what you see more appropriate, the glass comes off prety easy, and so on, just canibalize whichever way u see fit

 

yay it came in today, took acouple mins to replace.
take off the 3 screws in the back of the cluster for what you want and it comes out, word of advice though is that the black part with the glass doesnt come with holes for the metal clips ontop and it comes with extra clips on the side that you will have to break off in order for it to fit.

 

yeaaa

i like 94-95 Accord gauges anyways. come to think of it i might head out to the junkyard now.

 

oh yeah i almost forgot, the accord's needles are white but the round part is black as the 97 cl's are all white

 

ok i just threw them onto the accord gauge cluster.............hmm im thinking about putting it in the cl now........(excuse the camera phone pic)

 

do et

 

Lets see - your missing one needle, your temp looks high (at least mine is below the C before the car is turned on) and your fuel is over flowing. goodluck!

 

haha i threw it on the ebay cluster just incase i break a needle, i want to actually take them off the accord cluster and put it on the cl now that i can do it without breaking needles or if i break one im in luck if its the gas or the tach.

 

just be really careful and you'll be fine.

I didn't break mine when I put them on & I don't care if it's ricey. Theres no such thing as a JDM CL anyway.

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=177602

 

That's the scrapped Accord cluster he got off ebay... he's just trying to see how it looks when he puts it in the CL...

Besides, Temp/Fuel needle will correct itself when you plug the cluster back into the car....

 

yours looks alot better than the ones i got, i wish my whole face didnt light up, just the important stuff........

 

Nah, thats prolly b/c I dimmed it.

But I think you have indiglows?

I have reverse indiglows thats why the dials light up more than anything else.

Too bad our needles dont' light up

 

Roll your eye's else where - not it wont. Good luck with the install.

 

hm... fuel will correct itself when it senses the floater in the tank. Temp will not correct itself once it's tampered with & goes past the turning point.

I know - Went through 4 different clusters off the civic.

 

The floater is electrically connected. Its not a hard mechanical linkage, i could be wrong but i'm still *Very* surprised if it actually corrects. The needle had no idea what its pointing at. It only have a specific range of movement. If you move it from its origional place of rest it will still carry its range of movement but point to the wrong (miscalibrated) gauge markings. I've been wrong before though.....

 

All sending units are electrically connected. I never said there was any hard mechanical linkages. But if your gas tank is empty and your messing around with your fuel gauge and you set the gas needle all the way full - Once you turn on your car it will correct itself.

It's like when your filling up gas in your gas tank. It senses how much you have in there reguardless if you've tampered with it or not. The needle will drop back to the setting of where the sending unit is. There is a resistance plate on those sending units to configure where the needle is suppose to be pointing.

I use to mess with my clusters all the time off my civic. Have never had a problem with miss reading fuel, however the temp needle is a different story.

 

I buy your resistance story - But the needle hasn't a clue where its pointing. It could be pointing on the other side of the gauge, it doesn't care. The electrical load its getting from the (indirectly) floater only tells the needle how much to move, not where to move to. If you start at 1/4 tank and bump your needle up to 1/2 a tank accidently. When you go to plug it back it, it will still think its at 1/4. Nothing changes resistance wise, its still the same, just pointing to the 1/4 now instead. Incase your tank will be on E but still indicating 1/4th left in the tank because you moved the needle from its set location.

Whatever, spoke with AznTLX yesterday - he fixed his problem.