Dash dails paint

  1. #1
    Hey all,

    Going to change my Dash light of my MK1 VTR into white instead of green.
    How do i get the paint removed from the Dash dial card? sandpaper?
    Please advise.


    Thanks.
  2. #2
    are you being serious??
  3. #3
    Sure, why not?!
  4. #4
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/lockwood-dials...-/270723077754

    get something like this mate.
  5. #5
    No mate, i like my black dial card. i just want to change the color of the light from it (its coverd in a green filter) how do i remove the green filter from the original card in order to make the light- white?

    Many Thanks.
  6. #6
    oh my bad lol.

    im honestly not sure, as iv never seen the inside of the dial card
  7. #7
    i cant picture what your on about, can you post up pics?
  8. #8
    found http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...highlight=dial

    whats the liquid that he used to get the filterr off? petrol?
  9. #9
    he didnt, he changed the bulbs or in his case led's
  10. #10
    Well he clearly did sandpapered the card and used a liquid ״benzin" what's that?
  11. #11
    You have a green filter on the instrument cluster(correct name)impossible to change just buy a set of lockwood dials.

    Steve.
  12. #12
    don;t u change the leds at the rear on mk1 dials? think they are 501 or somethings?
  13. #13
    There aren`t LED`s on a mk1 just bulbs even if you changed the bulbs for coloured 1`s you`d still have the green filter.


    Steve.
  14. #14
    benzin = paint thinners its a czech company. And fine sand paper like 1500 wet and dry.