Yea i was wondering how difficult this would be to change the color of the Gauge?
Would it be best to buy one from ebay? OR Change the backlighting to LED??
from what i understand you cant really changet the color in the sunfire gauges whithout tearing into them, you could always do a cavi cluster swap with a few little mods and change the color of them all u want
actually, we are still trying to figure out how to change the color.
from what i remember, only the 95-99 clusters can be changed.
what color are you going for?
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oh yea i for got the 00-05 hasnt been figured out yet, got the reverse glow gauges in the vert, but im thinkin about doin the leds to atleast change the needle color and make ithem brighter
im currently working on it..but i need a junk cluster to work with getting the needles off right.....anyone got one???
ill check this weekend see if i can come up with one 00-05 right?
so i came back empty handed, couldnt find one
fpz24 (Akira) wrote:actually, we are still trying to figure out how to change the color.
from what i remember, only the 95-99 clusters can be changed.
what color are you going for?
I was actually going for a blue since most of my interior is painted blue and black.
But ummm.....they are selling some stickers or something like that on ebay for like 13bucks wouldnt that be a solution
i know this thread is about 3weeks old, but i have a set of reverse glow sunfire gauges for sale in the classifieds
during the day
at night
you wanted blue, and these are blue.....even change up the look a little. just a thought
scott (section8cav) wrote:im currently working on it..but i need a junk cluster to work with getting the needles off right.....anyone got one???
I had mine from when i put a sunfire one in and i just took the needles off no problem
Im going to solder tome leds in tommrow after i check voltage
doh mines a 2002 cavalier cluster
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Chef Dug wrote: I would like those, but you do not have time to ship
these are sunfire gauges, but it shows you have a cavy....not sure if you noticed or i'm in the dark about some swap you've done or car you own..
anyway, last time i tried to ship these the guy gave me the wrong address 3x and they were sent back to me. just bad luck with them i suppose, but i'm also in the process of moving, so time is short..
oh and sorry for the name change...."z24 at night" was suppose to be the name of my photo, not my name...lol
just see if someone from this area can pick them up and ship them for you....if you can do that, they're FREE
like Chef said, 2000-2005 clusters are a direct swap, plug and play no modifications required. To put LED's in you need to drill out the location of the old LED's or de-solder them, and re-solder in the colour you want. only do that to cavy clusters though, there is no real point to it on sunfire clusters due to the fact that they have a red film overlay in the cluster which is a bitch to remove.
PRE 2000 j's: whole different story. A cavalier cluster will not directly swap over into a sunfire. You would need to cut off the existing connectors, and wire in the appropriate ones. EX: cavy cluster in a sunfire - cut-off sunfire connectors and wire in cavy ones.
Also dash modification is needed. You need to trim the black mount around that sits around the cluster.
Hope this answers some questions.
Oh, and i also forgot to add that when soldering LED's in pre 00' you need to use a resistor with the proper rating. Check what size your LED is and the voltage it takes, then purchase the corrisponding resistor that fills in the gap of however much current is left to be absorbed so you don't fry your LED's. There is a sticky about that at the top of the page which teaches you how to figure out the resistor ratings and which one you would need. SEARCH.
