Man I tried for 2 hours driving around without the cover on the cluster pushing the needles in, pulling them out, and over again. It's definitely not the needles touching any gauge faces, I glued them on. It's just straight up the part that holds the needle has somehow broken. I guess I just took that chance and it didn't go in my favor, haha.
What'd you do to your accord today?
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RedRyder
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Damn. Sorry about your luck. That's what has kept me from doing the pure white, I'm too skert. lol
AllGOnoSHOW
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For some reason I am so scared to mess with the gauge stuff ha
You live you learn. Now I just have to wait on the new cluster and swap the guts of it into the old one haha. If that works... the odometer stays behind on the circuit board when you take the needle assemblies out right?
RedRyder
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As far as I know, yes.
RedRyder
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Hope you grounded yourself before touching that. 
Mikey
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I can handle swapping bulbs. But then you get hotspots and uneven light spread. That's a big no-no.What messed his up was taking off the needles so he could remove the blue film on the back of the gauge faces. You can't mess anything by swapping to LED bulbs in the gauge faces. I think you can handle that.
Tyler have you tried taking the needles off and putting them back on again? Or just pushing them up a little with a fork?
That's lesson cost you $100, lol. I'm not a big fan that.
Hope you grounded yourself before touching that.
What's the deal with that? Y U NEED TO GROUND?I took that from shenanizanz08's thread at V6p
I seriously thought about that when I saw the pic haha. "omg thisdudes just touching all up on the circuit board?!"
Just get wled-xHP5 bulbs, and you won't get any hot spots I swear. My blue gauges had no hotspots at all with those bulbs, but that's why they're almost $6 a piece. Gotta pay to play. And you need more bulbs than me because you're a V6.
Even if you do get verrrry little spotting, you can always pop the cluster apart and get foil tape and put it on the inside behind the bulbs. It's an easy trick, and doesn't require removing the needles.
Yeah, that's pretty annoying. But whatever. Iguess. I just hope it work when I swap it over. Idk why it wouldn't but I'm not necessarily having good luck with this project this time, haha.
Because your body carries more electrical current than some of those chips on a circuit board can handle(something to do with static electricity too, if i recall correctly), and if you touch them it can/will fry them. That's why you always use a grounding strap when working on a computer. I usually don't, but I make a habbit to touch something metal to ground myself every now and then, or just avoid touching the motherboard on a computer.
