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WestyKlaus
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 Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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| Thanks for posting pictures of the install. I guess it's obvious if you've taken the cluster apart before. But I understand how it would be a mystery if you've never done so. Pictures explain the process very well. |
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dbartisan
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:17 am Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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Hello dwdufour,
I just added some images to the gallery if that helps.
VW Vanagon indicator panel from WestyKlaus
-Steve C.
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uberaudi
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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| syncrodoka wrote: |
IIRC you just remove the factory indicator panel and replace it. I did this 10 years ago with one from westyklaus and it still looks fresh.
I went in for a smog today with my non KEP conversion. With my bar sticker the tech was happy to see the CEL in the stock position and functioning as it should. Passed the emissions test with flying colors  |
Brilliant!
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syncrodoka
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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| dwdufour wrote: |
| How the heck do you install these? |
IIRC you just remove the factory indicator panel and replace it. I did this 10 years ago with one from westyklaus and it still looks fresh.
I went in for a smog today with my non KEP conversion. With my bar sticker the tech was happy to see the CEL in the stock position and functioning as it should. Passed the emissions test with flying colors |
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dwdufour
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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| How the heck do you install these? |
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valvecovergasket
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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| revolution337 wrote: |
Bumping this thread. Does anyone have a source for custom inserts today? I checked with small car performance, but they do not have the style I am looking for.
With my engine conversion, I repurposed the old EGR warning light in the lowermost right corner as my CEL. I was hoping to be able to find an insert that had the CEL logo in the lower right, and is blank in the lower left. (small car has one that has CEL the lower left and blank lower right, so opposite of what I am looking for). |
Theirs is just a sticker over a new backer piece. I bet using a sharp blade you could carefully swap sides for the lower logo before applying the sticker, and I bet you'd not notice once it was assembled
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WestyKlaus
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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revolution337 -
I might have some unfinished ones with check engine in the lower right and blank in the lower left.
Send me a PM if still interested. |
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WestyKlaus
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revolution337
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:22 am Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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Bumping this thread. Does anyone have a source for custom inserts today? I checked with small car performance, but they do not have the style I am looking for.
With my engine conversion, I repurposed the old EGR warning light in the lowermost right corner as my CEL. I was hoping to be able to find an insert that had the CEL logo in the lower right, and is blank in the lower left. (small car has one that has CEL the lower left and blank lower right, so opposite of what I am looking for). |
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dubbified
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I'd like one custom with the engine block image overlaid with the Finger... so you know when your engine is acting up.  |
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1971BugGuy
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I ended up with a bit more time today than I thought I'd have so I, once again, set to work drawing up your indicator panels as well as some others that other people might like to have done. If anyone wants I can price out getting this done but it might be simpler if you take it to someone local. I can email the .eps file to anyone interested. Just choose which panel you'd like.
I could create other images at special request but I am drawing these on my own time and at no cost so I may not get things done right away. |
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1971BugGuy
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I need a display with a babe magnet warning light.  |
Mine would be on all of the time!!! lol 
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1971BugGuy
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1971buguy
Can I hire you to draw me a logo? I have the concept and I think you are quite talented as well as helpful.
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PM me whatever your needs are.
I'm thinking I might get a handful of these made up in their various incarnations ready to mail out if I get enough interest and depending on the cost involved.
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WestyKlaus
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... My thinking is to have these printed on Vinyl or clear film and then glue it to a piece of frosted Plexiglas.
Can I hire you to draw me a logo? I have the concept and I think you are quite talented as well as helpful.
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Plexiglass is too thick - PM me about the logo and you can talk to the talent (my wife); I'm part dumb. [email protected] |
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WestyKlaus
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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...And finding ten people here who want/need the same thing ... All the same... |
I wouldn't expect all 10 to be identical graphics. My wife is a graphic artist and in the past has worked with those wanting custom graphics on the indicator panel. She'd charge a fee for the effort (I think $20-$25), prepare and email a proof of the final indicator panel. Once approved by the buyer, she would create it and mail out. The coordination process takes several days if she has time.
Eventually we expected to have a list of graphics ready for production without the "custom fee."
We have cut these from vinyl as well to match the multi-layered vinyl speedo/tach overlays we've made. This small indicator panel is very difficult weed (process of removing unwanted areas of the cut vinyl). But it is a perfect match to the vinyl overlays.
For a stock look/match, you have to do a quality print on the right back-lit type vinyl/film. We tried many different products befor finding the right combination. Should have purchased more the the media once we found the right set-up but didn't. When the supplies ran out, we couldn't find the same supplier... My advise is to buy 3-4 types of printable vinyl and test your prints on back-lit media. Not all media give the same results. |
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xoo00oox
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I just did a quick one on a piece of scrap red.
I am at home now and dont have a cluster here, does anyone know the dimensions of the rectangle? |
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GreenMachineVW
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Custom Indicator Panel Insert |
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| ...The problem we had with making these is everyone wanted a custom design. The efforts to make 1-at-a-time (for custom graphics) is not cost effective. May be a delayed production until we have 10 orders per run, it might make sense to source the material and start making them again. ... |
Of course. I understand completly that there would never be any money to be made there, even at double the price. As camerahunter says, you have to do it for the fun of it. And finding ten people here who want/need the same thing ... All the same, I wil say that your inserts, as far as I can see from the pictures, look wonderful. If there are any tips you care to share with the hobbiest, they would be most appreciated. |
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bquigs
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For those with an auxiliary battery hooked up via a Blue Sea Systems ACR battery joiner thing, that unit has an output for an LED status light. I always thought it would be cool to have two battery lights on my instrument panel, though I am not sure if the Blue Sea light turns off when all is well, or if it could be made to do so. Just food for thought.
-Rob |
The blue sea ACR LED is ON when the batteries are combined. Im putting an ACR in right now and am considering where to mount this . Im not sure I want to see a lighted indicator on the dash since all the other lights are warning lights, this would sort of be opposite. It might make more sense to see in in the house area?
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For those with an auxiliary battery hooked up via a Blue Sea Systems ACR battery joiner thing, that unit has an output for an LED status light. I always thought it would be cool to have two battery lights on my instrument panel, though I am not sure if the Blue Sea light turns off when all is well, or if it could be made to do so. Just food for thought.
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Spinal Tap
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| svenakela wrote: |
| I need a display with a babe magnet warning light. |
What would be the point? It'd never go out!
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