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Hi,

seems to me you are doing all the right things ! Quite a style-ish and delicate improvement, and you've gotta keep them rims in bronze. The colour is nice, too, so classic... so fine ! Enjoy your car, mate. Love it !

Hehe, it all comes together, you know Thanks for the compliment



What podlights, and what toebar? Sorry, don't understand :S

Heh, the blue got a new life once it was painted, and buffed up! A whole new colour, in my eyes..


Thanks, mate



Haha, it was my winter-baloons. Have to do a makeover on them too, anyways.. But he painted the car fairly well, and it is someone I know.. so what the heck

Thanks man, glad you like it



Hehe, I've changed my mind so many times about them projectors.. think I would leave the headlamps as they are... And the splitters, and the rest of the skirts, were moulded because of fitment-problems.... So I think, if you were in my situation, you would

Thanks for the comment

Here are the pictures I promised.. Not everyone is done yet, but they will be posted











Hope you guys like what I've done, let me hear your thoughts on it !

Thanks, glad you seem to like it. Will throw up some more pictures tonight, maybe.

Thanks, will post 'em tonight, hopefully. Tnx for the comment !



Thanks, but imo. I still think it rides a little too high !



Heheh, yeah.. I like it ! thanksthanks !

Will always have to love a clean, washed white celica ! That bridge looks awesome too, how long is it ?

Well, I took a friend out, and he went nuts with his camera, tried a couple of locations, and a lot of pictures was the result. I'll throw out two teasers, so the crowd can decide if I should throw out some more Enjoy..

I installed them last week, and it was some kind of experiment... Will try to explain step-by-step.
---- First of all, connect the dials with eachother, and hook them up to 12v, to see if they work! -----
1. Take out the cluster by un-screwing all the surrounding plastic.
2. Remove everything you need to, to get to the needles. Also the bezel surrounding the dials.
3. Note what gas-level you have, so you don't mess it up, and take of the needles. They need an equal press right up to slide off the needle under it.
4. I used super-glue under the plasma-dials, and glued them right over the originals. You will need the originals to keep the check-lights for door-openers and such, so don't remove them. The reason I used glue, was to make sure it holds tight down, and flat, and so it don't slows down the needle, or causes it to hang it up.
5. Take the cluster, WITHOUT mounting anything, and wire it up to any kind of 12v constant you want to. I wired it up to the big one in the back of the cluster, just measured 'til I found a wire than delivered power when I turned on my parking lights, and check if you get them to power on equally and so on. If you have done everything carefully, and right, you will be satisfied to mount it.
6. Put the ignition on, and press the needles back on. this is because when they get power on em, they will "move" into a zero-position, where you will put the needle on 0 km/h or mph, and the idle-rpm. that you should know what your car does, and the tank and heat-gauge. then turn off the power, and check if every needle moves smooth, and normally fine.
7. take it out, mount all the plastic, connect it back, and remount all the surroundings.

That what was I did, and it worked fine. Pretty ****ty to think out everything myself, and learn the speedocluster the hard-way, but you will have to remove your needles to get them on. I can see no other option.

The only thing that will be lit up by LED, are the needles. You will pick the colour you think matchs best. The dials are 100% lit up by themselves.

Depending on the auto-gauge, you should e-mail info@custom-tuning.nl , they have been very good at e-mailing me about my order, and answers fast.

How did you guys install these? Did you remove the originals, or just slide them over the old ones?

Hehe, yeah, but I will try to keep it on the road ;-p Anyways, by seeing the pictures I'm satisfied, so far. I said he just could give-**** in the wheels, because it is just a set of useless rims anyways, I will take the tires off, and refresh them for next winter, but when I get home now, it is summerwheels ( momo rims, you could see them at the top of the page), and it will be something different.

Thanks for the comment, though. It is fun to get positive feedback/suggestions/tips etc.

Thanks ! I haven't actually seen it with my own eyes yet, because I'm in the army, but going home next week. Can't waaaaaaaaaaaait !



Thanksthanks, they molded the extensions to hide the "gap", to get a smoother connection there, but I don't really know why they didn't mold the whole thing. I said I didn't want them to, so I could remove it if I in the future get unlucky and get hit or something.

Yup, got pictures today... The car is painted, and I think I'm really satisfied with the result so far











Can't wait to see it with the lamps +++ mounted !

Here it is, in progress...

Oh, that look quite nice. Can you get some shots that follows the side of the car, so I can see how much the fill out?

Yup, I've thought of many things, but ended up that I want a smooth look, with one colour.

The car is, for information, sent in to the paintshop, with the trd-sides ( thanks whifbitz ) and the trd-splitters ( thanks doggy ). Can't wait to see the results :--D The whole car will be sanded down, and be straightened up. Wonder how it will look, for sure...

It depends on the rear-end... But yes, it looks like you have a hatchback.

About the jdm-tail lights. It depens if you have a coupe, conv. or a hatchback. If you read in the faq-area there is alot of detailed information, and it exist jdm-taillights for each model, but the have different shapes.

Ah, nice little detail. But just a thought, tint it blacker, maybe it will flow better with your all-black style ? May be hot, may be not :]

This actually seems to be just what I am looking for!

plasma-gauges, black backround, blue lighting. In km/h ! looks like the numbers are in ca. the right places too. More information? Couldn't get the link to work properly !

edit; NEVERMIND, got it to work now. Could you get me a set like these? Damn, I've been looking so long for a set, and this is right in my taste GIMMIE

I'm not affected, really... but a friend of mine live in California now, she's having a school-year there... How is the storm? Heavy damages? Is there some sort of local news-paper online that covers this?

Hehe, yup. I will do the mirror-thing myself, I think it "stands out" to much when it is grey. It will be superb with some lowtone windows and projectors. About the mesh, maybe the celica wanted to say CHEESE, and flash with the kick-ass colgate bling-smile

hehe, hope I made the first order, because it looks like my car is fronting January month, and it would have been nice if I could see it for some days

Ah, this one looks nice. Like the drop, how low is it?

Ever wanted to paint your rear-view-mirror from grey to black? Tint windows, and also... I think it would have been more "tasty" if the mesh.-grille-thing in front was not so... "light grey", maybe more coal og darker grey.

I really like the last picture, looks really straight in the body :=)