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Jan 2, 2007

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Best thing to do to my gauges

Ok what can I do to make my gauges on my 97 Civic LX Auto look better. Im 16 its my first car and the thing I hate the most are the gauges on it. They look like this http://astro.temple.edu/~mkhan005/pics/98civauto.jpg ; I was looking at getting these for it eBay Motors: 96 97 08 99 00 CIVIC AUTO AC S7 GAUGES REVERSE GAUGE (item 200051347621 end time Nov-30-06 17:02:56 PST)
Problem is I really want my needles to glow red like on the newer civics and accords but there seems to be no way to do that. So what creative things should I do to my guages?

Jan 3, 2007

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get rid of it and get a 7thgen....your gauges will look a whole lot better.

Jan 3, 2007

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You could swap them out. I just swaped my 98 EX gauges out for 05 SI gauges which have the glow needles. They look really hot. The reverse glow gauges from eBay are hard to get on and personnaly I think they look like garbage, as I had them on for a while.

Jan 3, 2007

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Pictures now please. I want to see this I diddant think you could do a swap. Diddant you loose all mileage reading because the 05 uses a digital readout?

Jan 3, 2007

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Most people would love to lose the mileage off of there cars.

Jan 4, 2007

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^^^ haha, oh how true lol. the new SI gauges i just put in say I only have 8K on my car now haha, went from 120K to 8K lol.

I PMed you the links to the images.

Jan 5, 2007

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i think the stock gauges are fine on a 6th gen...

Jan 5, 2007

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go find yourself a jdm cluster...those are nicer..dont get a 7thgen..lol

Feb 9, 2007

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What size difference is there in this cluster here eBay Motors: 2003 Honda Civic Speedo Speedometer Gauge Cluster LKQ (item 190080853850 end time Feb-14-07 16:31:29 PST)
I would really like to have this cluster in my car, but im not sure if it will fit I cant tell.

Feb 9, 2007

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^^^^That is the stock cluster out of an 03 civic lx / ex. It will fit right in but there are wires you will have to mod. Their are plenty of DIY on doing the swap, you just have to

https://www.civicforums.com/forums/search.php

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