Guages - cheap fix

[madmaxstyle]

I cleaned my guage cluster while I was spiffing up the interior all the lettering came off.
anyways to make a long story short I butchered up my guages bad IMO and I cannot for the life of me get a decent lettering on my guages that doesnt look hand made or cartoon like.
only thing I found that really sparks my interest other than go get stock monte carlo guage's out of the wrecker for my unit.

http://www.whitegauges.net/products/198 ... auges.html
anyone use something similar in the sticker/vynl approach?

I'm looking for the 'could be stock' look to the untrained eye. Not to a Chevy guru.
also money is an object for me I cant justify new gauges in something I cant drive all the time.

 

[SLICK79WGN]

I say go for it and what the hell did you try to clean it with

 

[ERIC87442]

pretty nice to me, i checked out the ones for oldsmobile, think i might get me some, also says it makes your stock gauges 50% brighter, mine are dime as all hell at night and all my bulbs work. haha so may have to give that a shot.

 

[madmaxstyle]

I cleaned it with water and a dishcloth. the lettering came off once it got wet. kind of like wiping chalk off a blackboard you can see a faint underlining of the numbers after.
DONT WASH YOUR GUAGE FACE WITH WATER
use a dry cloth instead. Noone ever put that in a post I've read so far.......

 

[O. D. Showtime]

Sorry this happened to you. Yes the guage numbers and lettering are of a water based material and will wash off with water. I usually use a make up brush to dust off the gauge faces.

 

[historyg]

I am about to get a gauge cluster, and i am so doing this before i swap it in, thanks a lot for the site, I might get the led's with it as the stock light is just so dam low. Thanks again

 

[SLICK79WGN]

Sorry this happened to you. Yes the guage numbers and lettering are of a water based material and will wash off with water. I usually use a make up brush to dust off the gauge faces.

damn that was dumb on gm's part I have never heard of this

 

[O. D. Showtime]

Sorry this happened to you. Yes the guage numbers and lettering are of a water based material and will wash off with water. I usually use a make up brush to dust off the gauge faces.

damn that was dumb on gm's part I have never heard of this

Yeah it wasn't one of their best ideas. I've got a few clusters here that I'm working on restoring. Luckily I never tried the wet cloth trick on any of them.

 

[jayschevy]

hey, sorry to hear about your gauges.i used a a wet thumb on my speedo for the dust,you can see the smears.no lettering came off though.i went to the wrecking yard today and got a set of gauges to put in my 86 mc.little did i know they wont fit in my panel.all of it has to be changed,so the idjit lites are gonna ride for awhile longer.if you hear of anyone needing some gauges,holla at me.

 

[beermonkey9417]

what ya could do is goto a arts and craft store and get thos letter stickers in the same size and font. its not too costly and you could get something cool looking in the process.