guage sweep mod (VID)
 

i did this earler today and i love it,

the beeping is my escort powering up and the last beep was my phone telling me it was dying, and i know the tach is a little twitchy but its always been like that, also the dash lights do come on with the key not with the headlights

enjoy awsomness
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thanks C2 can you pm me on how to do it

Does this make the Trip meter reset everytime or no?

nope

fixed

So are you going to keep us in the dark about how to do this?

awesome! i've always liked how grand am's do this and so far the only way i ever got my alero to do it is if the battery is nearly dead!

lol


all i did was cut the orange wire on the plug going to the guage cluster, thn ran a switched power wire from the fuse box and connected that to the orange wire comming from the plug.

Are you basically saying you connected it to an accessory wire?

yep

i am going to do this on my time off. great mod.

So the orenge wire eh?... Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Also I like the red needles and back lighting.

Those needles are off a passat.

Theres no reason I couldn't just run the wire to the cubby light for it to work is there? That way just keeping everything more central instead if having to run it out to a new fuse.
edit: yes, it works great, needles sweep anytime the interior lighting comes on. its pretty nifty.

unless you only want the cluster to work when the interior lights are on. i dont think it would work that way anyway since it would almost be run in a closed circuit since the cubby light wiring has the same wiring to the cluster. it would be the same as running the orange wire (hot at all times) to the gray wire (interior lighting) in the same cluster pack leading into the gauges.

Its working good so far. The positive to that light is grey, the needels sweep any time the interior lighting comes on, and they have enough of of delay that when starting they only sweep once. So far so good. It only took about 30min to do it all so if somthing starts screwing up it wasn't to huge a loss of time.

So an official how-to and possibly pics for those more visual would help

I'm with Luckilero7. How bout a how to. I have so many questions! How did you get the red dash lights? Did you get your A/C controls the same color. I wanna do this!