Gauge Swap Out

[h8z2luze]

White shows less dings and dirt.

[h8z2luze]

So how did you wire them up? I am not sure where to wire them in at.

[theWeezL]

Originally Posted by h8z2luze

So how did you wire them up? I am not sure where to wire them in at.

Ahh yes, good question my young apprentice! I wanted mine to come on with the regular dash lights so I spliced into the harness that feeds power for the stock gauge lights. I would imagine all years are the same but I have no way to be sure, but for me the wire was green and it was in the set of wires that go to the big plug farthest left (as your looking at the gauges still installed).

in case your wire is a different color, here is how I figured out which wire it was:
When you look at the printed circuit "board" on the back of the gauges, there are circuits that go to the stock gauge lights. Both sides of the light circuits (green socketed ones) lead back to the harness. One side of that is the ground and one side is the feed. I guessed and tried the green/white wire and found that when I dimmed my stock lights the new gauge lights got brighter and vice-versa. So obviously it was the other one (in my case it was a solid green wire). This is 12V power and not connected to the dimmer, so you can dim the new lights independent of the old ones.


Oh, forgot to mention this is where you splice in the red wire from your new regulator. Also on the back of your gauges you will see some screws with text next to them. One of those says "earth" so I just put a ring clip on my ground wire and connected it there on the back of the cluster (depending if your Turbo or not they may have wires going to them, but mine didnt). Or you can just run the ground to the chassis somewhere.

[h8z2luze]

Cool, thanks weezl. That would make sense to me.