Well - I've decided to customize my gauge cluster. Partially because I've always thought the clusters from the earlier cars (pre 71) looked pretty neat. Partially inspired by the Alpina cluster in Bill Williams' P2. Partially because I just like to do something different.

So - purchased a cluster from a 1970 2002 on e-bay. Speedo needle is broken, but that's OK. I was going to send it off to get re-calibrated for my 3.91 LSD anyway.

So - here's the starting point. I'm probably going to send my gauges to PASpeedo and have them do the following:

1) Re-condition all of the gauge faces.

2) Fix the speedo needle

3) Straighten the tach needle

4) Re-set the odometer mileage.

5) Calibrate the speedo to the current rear-end.

6) Paint the silver centers in my gauges Fjord, to match my body color.

Additionally - I'm going to try and recondition the rest of the gauge cluster myself. So, I'll re-paint the inside flat white, re-paint the outer housing a semi-gloss black, and paint the exterior gauge trim rings Fjord (again, to match body color). Here are the before pictures. I'll update as things get cleaned up.

Ken
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'73 2002, Fjord - "Deuce"
'04 330i, Titanium - "Smith"

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