Re: Calling Brett!!! was: Brighter gauges for Mk1.

[Jeremy Salda <roccoguy@mac.com>]

You would have to have the numbers and dashes cut out, then layer a 
thin, translucent material to the back of them, so that you could see 
them in the day and the light would diffuse at night. Could Brett do the 
cuttouts? If so, there shouldn't be much of a problem.

jeremy


On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 12:55 , Randy B wrote:

> Jeremy,
> The gauge faces were made by Brett Van Sprewenburg from the list.
> Brett, you out there???
> He sent me sample images of the tach/speedo and I played around in 
> Photoshop
> with them and finially decided on white/black/red with the word 
> Scirocco on
> the faces.
> I believe he can put whatever you want on them, only limited by your
> imagination. (I even considered using the Porsche Boxster font for 
> awhile).
> I have also been thinking about a way to create a set of gauges where 
> red
> light passes through the #'s and such like in the 99.5-2001 Audi A4's 
> but
> haven't come up with a solution that would be: A. within a reasonable
> budget, and B. semi OEM looking (not hacked together).
>
> If you come up with something that works LMK.
>
> Randy
>
>
>
>
>> Where'd you get the gauge faces from? I can't find them anywhere 
>> anymore
>> for an MKI. Also, has anybody done any more radical mods to their
>> gauges, like trying to get the red/blue combo that's on the new cars?
>> I'm down for more light and white faces, but if I can modify it even
>> further, I'll try it.
>>
>> jeremy
>>
>>
>> On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 12:14 , Randy B wrote:
>>
>>> Well I finially got around to puting on the gauge faces I got from 
>>> Brett
>>> many moons ago and they came out real nice :)
>>> The instalation was real straight forward thanks to the great
>>> instructions.
>>>
>>> While handling the Speedo it occured to me that I could create a
>>> brighter
>>> and more evenly lit gauge if I added another bulb to the housing.
>>> After going through my parts bins I found another bulb housing/wire 
>>> and
>>> went
>>> to work instaling it.
>>> Check out the link for details:
>>> <<http://www.myscirocco.org/_MARS__81S/Gauges/gauges.html>>
>>>
>>> After installing the guage cluster back in the car (at night) I tested
>>> it to
>>> see if there was a difference with the new bulb by  unpluging each one
>>> at a
>>> time.
>>> There was a noticable difference when both were on over just having 
>>> one
>>> on.
>>> It is kind of like having a speaker not connected, you don't notice
>>> right
>>> away but when you find it and hook it back up you say...WOW! I can't
>>> believe
>>> I didn't notice. (just did this in the Jetta, one rear speaker wasn't
>>> hooked
>>> up).
>>>
>>> Well, off to the wrecker for some trim pieces :)
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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