I'm going to be moving back to Germany by the end of the year and will definitely take my car with me.
Therefore I will need to convert my instrument dial from mph to km/h.
I've been searching on here for a while and couldn't come up with any good ideas, and Lotus only sells the entire instrument but not the dial itself:shrug:
Two weeks back I contacted a company in Germany that makes custom dials for a lot of cars.
They did not have anything off the shelf for the Lotus, but they are willing to do a custom made dial for me.
I sent them a few pictures of my current dial, and this is what they came back with as a first proposal:
I wanted to keep it as stock as possible because I like the looks of the current dial.
Now we are just figuring out the details on how the symbols are lit.
I assume that the symbols on the right (check engine, seatbelt etc.) are lit by LED's from the back.
The tank and coolant temp symbols look like they are either clear or even cut out of the dial and are just lit by the LCD display (can someone who has taken theirs apart confirm that?)
I will have them change the font color from blue to black, but it sound like they can make any custom color I want.
The entire dial including designing it is going to cost me 35 Euros plus 10.50 for shipping it to the US, which I think is a very good deal.
I just wanted to share this since I know that there are a few folks on here who have imported a car to Europe, and they all seem to run into the issue of getting a km/h dial...
The name of the company that is going to make this for me is Tacho-Cartuning (Tacho - Cartuning ~ Hochwertige Tachoscheiben für Ihr Auto im Exklusiv-Design)
Teh web site is all in German, but I'm sure they speak english as well...
Therefore I will need to convert my instrument dial from mph to km/h.
I've been searching on here for a while and couldn't come up with any good ideas, and Lotus only sells the entire instrument but not the dial itself:shrug:
Two weeks back I contacted a company in Germany that makes custom dials for a lot of cars.
They did not have anything off the shelf for the Lotus, but they are willing to do a custom made dial for me.
I sent them a few pictures of my current dial, and this is what they came back with as a first proposal:
I wanted to keep it as stock as possible because I like the looks of the current dial.
Now we are just figuring out the details on how the symbols are lit.
I assume that the symbols on the right (check engine, seatbelt etc.) are lit by LED's from the back.
The tank and coolant temp symbols look like they are either clear or even cut out of the dial and are just lit by the LCD display (can someone who has taken theirs apart confirm that?)
I will have them change the font color from blue to black, but it sound like they can make any custom color I want.
The entire dial including designing it is going to cost me 35 Euros plus 10.50 for shipping it to the US, which I think is a very good deal.
I just wanted to share this since I know that there are a few folks on here who have imported a car to Europe, and they all seem to run into the issue of getting a km/h dial...
The name of the company that is going to make this for me is Tacho-Cartuning (Tacho - Cartuning ~ Hochwertige Tachoscheiben für Ihr Auto im Exklusiv-Design)
Teh web site is all in German, but I'm sure they speak english as well...