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Old Mar 25, 2005
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gauges for a dx

I have a civic dx, 2004 and i hate my dash lights, the gauges are ugly orange. Does anyone make an indiglo, or any other option to change them?
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Here's a DIY for blue Guages if you want white then don't put any electrical mods
just the film removal

Here's a DIY
and here's another DIY
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Thanks for that but i already did that, not for looks though. My friend hooked up a wrong wire when he was hooking up the cd player and fried the instrument panel. We wired the leds all to a switch, which only gets power when the car is on, so i leave the switch on and they are always on when the car is running. Which doesnt bother me cause i always have the driving lights on anyways. I was looking for some white gauges to buy though, and im looking for a company that sells them for a DX.
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Swap out the DX cluster for an EX one and just get some off eBay.
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Will they plug right up or will i have to change the wiring? I dont have a tach, ,but i ran the wires and i have an aftermarket one, id like to put the ex gauges in there and have the tach work too. Is this possible?
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Well, an aftermarket tach is kinda pointless with the EX cluster. That cluster has a tach in it already. But as long as you have on 04 EXcluster to swap in, it will work just fine. For example, I have an 01 DX with an 01 EX cluster & it works as if my car was the 01 EX.
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Wait, you gotta look for a 01-02 cluster not an 04 for a tach.
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dx eh.. um.. i would need to double check, but dx-ex should be a straight swap.
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Originally Posted by gearbox
04 vp I was under the impression that they were dx clusters. They are the same as the old style 01-02 clusters from any model. The 04 lx has the new led gauges I believe, and there's no more 04 dx (it's the vp now).
i already checked
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good stuff, i remeber the VP thing, but didnt know it was directed towards DX also.
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Red??

Do DIY make a red indiglo???
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Has anyone ever cleared the cluster & just replaced the orange with colored gels/filters? Like the ones they use to change colors on stage lights. They come in 24 x 24 sheets, in every color imaginable & are only like $6 per sheet.

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it would be too dim.
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would a 03 EX cluster work find with a 04 vp ?
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yes. direct swap.
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