gauge cluster help!

[Sketch o5]

how do you take the circuit board off the back of the gauge cluster? i got some polarizing film and im trying to get to my odometer. i already did my clock, i just need to do this part.

 

[Sketch o5]

i actually just need to know how to take the odometer lcd screen out.

 

[Totalimmortal]

Could you elaborate on the polarizing film and what it does??

 

[dynasty]

it's probably a transparent film that overlap the gauge. kinda like, a transparent red film over the gauge which will light up red. it's too risky for me to remove the circuit board. LED is the farthest i would go.

 

[Sketch o5]

its actually already on EVERY non colored LCD screen that you use, like calulators, some cell phones, the clock and odometer in our cars. what you do, is you take the original film off, its on front of the glass. then you take the new piece you cut out, and turn it 90 degrees to the angle that the other piece was......youll notice the screen turn black. now, when you put everything back together, and plug, lets say, the 6th gen's clock back in, itll light up the numbers unsted of the background.

so say you have a white LED lit clock in your 6th gen (i personally took the cruise control on/off indicator light and put it in the clock), ok so you have a white LED lit clock, you do this polarizing film process that i just described, and you install everything back to the way is was. so insted of the clock NORMALLY lighting up with a white background and black numbers, itll like up with a black barckground and white numbers. ill post a pic of my clock tomorrow. i took one on my cell, but its a cell pic, haha, so its not that great. ill show you guys tomorrow night what it looks like.

 

[Jeffro]

That sounds pretty sweet... Where'd you get the polarizing film?

 

[Sketch o5]

well, heres a couple pics, just went out and took them now, since nights the best time to see it, tho you can still see it during the day. theyre from my cell, so theyre not good, haha, my camera was dead.

with flash:

without flash:

heres where i bought it:

http://www.3dlens.com/shop/polarizer.php

5th one down. 200x250 mm is about the size of a sheet of paper. ships from taiwan.

 

[dynasty]

*GASP!* your clock works?! that's a miracle! HAHA

 

[Sketch o5]

haha, its nothing major. just gotta be careful cuz those things attached to the glass are delicate and if you rip one off, your kinda fubared, haha.

 

[whitey2kaccord]

Damn, thats pretty pimp. I think I may steal your idea and do it too.