Gauge Face installation question

[JeeCS4]

Hello Folks.

I just got some gauge faces and I got as far as removing the cluster, disassembling it and now i'm left with just the bare faces with the needles on them.

I managed to remove one needle. However, it looks as though the faces are easy to just unclip at their edges but there is a black plastic center piece that holds the entire face onto the main body. looking at this piece makes me believe that it can be compressed underneath and just lifted out but after trying, it doesn't seem all that easy.

Has anyone figured out what to do with this plastic piece?

TIA!

[Tool Pants]

No clue what your are talking about.

You also need to have your year in your profile.

Pictures and arrows please.

[JeeCS4]

OK, I will need to use someone else's DIY instructions. Thanks to this person for giving such a great DIY.

if you see the picture in the link, I am referring to the black plastic button (red and blue arrows):

http://www.lotususa.com/Alex/996ColorGuage...ges/ppage12.htm

I would really like to remove this piece.

Hope this helps.

BTW, car is an 02 996 C4S.

Edited July 21, 2005 by JeeCS4

[Tool Pants]

Now I get it. :lightbulb:

The face replacements we have done were to the old style cluster and once you remove the needle you just lift off the face. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1562

Your year cluster and the cluster in the picture is a new style cluster that I have not worked on.

I happen to have a spare new style Boxster cluster. I just removed the needle from the tac. But I could not lift off the face because there is a black plastic bushing ( the button) under the needle that holds the face down. It is not like that on the old style cluster.

There is a split at the bottom of the bushing so I tried to squeeze with bent nose tweezers it so I could pull the bushing out. I gave up after 30 seconds of trying so I just pulled off the face, and some of the top part of the bushing came with it. :oops: I do not think it will hurt anything since I see no purpose for the bushing other than to secure the face down.

There has to be a way to get that bushing out.

We need a reward to the first person who figures out the puzzle.

[JeeCS4]

Now I get it. :lightbulb: 

The face replacements we have done were to the old style cluster and once you remove the needle you just lift off the face.  http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1562

Your year cluster and the cluster in the picture is a new style cluster that I have not worked on. 

I happen to have a spare new style Boxster cluster.  I just removed the needle from the tac.  But I could not lift off the face because there is a black plastic bushing ( the button) under the needle that holds the face down.  It is not like that on the old style cluster.

There is a split at the bottom of the bushing so I tried to squeeze with bent nose tweezers it so I could pull the bushing out.  I gave up after 30 seconds of trying so I just pulled off the face, and some of the top part of the bushing came with it. :oops: I do not think it will hurt anything since I see no purpose for the bushing other than to secure the face down.

There has to be a way to get that bushing out.

We need a reward to the first person who figures out the puzzle.

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Well, the real question is that there appears to be two types of gauge faces on the market. One type is the stick on type. Regardless of this bushing, the stick ons have large enough openings to fit around the buttons. I have these in hand so I know they will work with the buttons.

OTOH, there is a direct replacement for the stock ones. Same type material and not a stick on. Therefore, it seems as though you will need to use the bushings b/c that is the only way these will stay mounted (unless you use double sided tape and I prefer to do a clean job). I don't have these particualr gauge faces in hand but that's what I was told.

Maybe a speedo shop can help. Perhaps they sell these bushings so that we can just break them off.

[Stefan]

Is there a good source for the old-style (1999, non-S) gauge faces that is not to expensive? I want to try an experiment that involves cutting the face and I don't want to do it with my only one.