New Mod - White Needles on Instrument Cluster

[Danlnyc88]

Wanted to share my newest DIY mod.

Honeycomb gauges from Venoxy. These are direct replacements.

Wanted to try something different from the solid red gauges.

White needles are from ebay. Came off a BMW F10. Surgery is required since F10 needles dont fit on the cluster.

Last pic is what it looked like before. I always hated the orange on red look.

[sailorpapay]

[Sephrr]

Those white needles are perfect

[cotmfk]

That's awesome - but FFF you for making me "need" to spend more money on my car now!

(Joking ... as I said, it looks awesome. )

[Theruleslawyer]

I don’t see that style on their site. Did you have to custom order?

[Danlnyc88]

Originally Posted by Theruleslawyer

I don’t see that style on their site. Did you have to custom order?

You can see different styles for e92 gauges but yea if you reach out to them through email they can mock up basically anything I guess.

I asked for these 3 and decided on the honeycomb.

[NSX2M4]

I think it looks good. Gotta have some coconuts to perform surgery on them though. lol
Do the needles just unsnap? I tried something like this on an NA1 NSX and it fucked the whole gauge up.

[Danlnyc88]

Originally Posted by NSX2M4

I think it looks good. Gotta have some coconuts to perform surgery on them though. lol
Do the needles just unsnap? I tried something like this on an NA1 NSX and it fucked the whole gauge up.

Lol honestly wasn't too hard. This was my first time doing this. Obviously you need to be very careful pulling these needles out. It's a very small hole that goes over a needle like pin.

It was harder to put them back in. Push too hard it would move in either direction by a little bit. Plus I had hooked the cluster back up to the car to make sure the needles are all at 0 and aligned them that way.

Trick is to use two spoons, put them under the needle, and very slowly increase the pressure until the needles pop out.

[dylanwilson]

Suuuper clean, good work man

[Pqbrown]

Bumping this because I just did mine too with a dark red gauge and think white would contrast well. Any reason you used f10 needles and not f30? Looks like the f30 has white needles too and probably wouldn’t need to be modified.

[Danlnyc88]

Originally Posted by Pqbrown

Bumping this because I just did mine too with a dark red gauge and think white would contrast well. Any reason you used f10 needles and not f30? Looks like the f30 has white needles too and probably wouldn’t need to be modified.

It was the only item available on ebay that looked similar to the oem ones. If you can find F30 needles and they look the same, there's still a chance the hole won't fit into the pin to hold the thing in place. So you'll have to transfer the needle over.

The process isn't too hard as long as you're careful. You literally get 1 chance at this lol.

[Pqbrown]

Originally Posted by Danlnyc88

It was the only item available on ebay that looked similar to the oem ones. If you can find F30 needles and they look the same, there's still a chance the hole won't fit into the pin to hold the thing in place. So you'll have to transfer the needle over.

The process isn't too hard as long as you're careful. You literally get 1 chance at this lol.

Well I just bought a used f30 cluster on eBay. We’ll see how it goes and will update.

[Danlnyc88]

Originally Posted by Pqbrown

Well I just bought a used f30 cluster on eBay. We’ll see how it goes and will update.

Yea let me know! Im curious myself

[Pqbrown]

So the f30 cluster I picked up had needles that also were different to our cars. There are various configurations of f30 clusters, so maybe a newer one would work (mine was an older one with the analog mpg gauge at the bottom of the tachometer). Ended up doing what Danlnyc88 did and disassembled the needles and swapping the parts over. Wasn’t exactly easy, but not so bad once you figure out what you need to do.

[F82///M]

This is like swapping S engine for an N series and being excited about it. Red needles have been reserved for M cars since E30 M3. Regular Bmw's always had white ones. No wonder Bmw gave us G80 and G87 when owners are proudly downgrading M traditions.

[Danlnyc88]

Originally Posted by F82///M

This is like swapping S engine for an N series and being excited about it. Red needles have been reserved for M cars since E30 M3. Regular Bmw's always had white ones. No wonder Bmw gave us G80 and G87 when owners are proudly downgrading M traditions.

Haha are you serious man? It's not that deep... I am not a BMW purist or swapping an engine.

I have a white car with sakhir interior and I thought white needles would look nice with the red clusters, and to me it looks amazing. A lot of people did too and reached out to me including the guy above. The orange needle with red cluster looks bad.

I understand you don't like them and that's fine but your comparisons are ridiculous...lol

[Danlnyc88]

Originally Posted by Pqbrown

So the f30 cluster I picked up had needles that also were different to our cars. There are various configurations of f30 clusters, so maybe a newer one would work (mine was an older one with the analog mpg gauge at the bottom of the tachometer). Ended up doing what Danlnyc88 did and disassembled the needles and swapping the parts over. Wasn’t exactly easy, but not so bad once you figure out what you need to do.

Looks amazing brotha. I'm so sorry about not getting you the video. I'm glad you got it figured out. The white hexagon background is a nice touch 👍

[Pqbrown]

Originally Posted by F82///M

This is like swapping S engine for an N series and being excited about it. Red needles have been reserved for M cars since E30 M3. Regular Bmw's always had white ones. No wonder Bmw gave us G80 and G87 when owners are proudly downgrading M traditions.

Pretty ironic coming from a guy with an auto in his M car

[F82///M]

Originally Posted by Pqbrown

Pretty ironic coming from a guy with an auto in his M car

Automatic transmission in F82? This forum went faster downhill than this "auto" can shift since 2nd and 3rd owners started posting and modifying last M platform made by engineers with real Bmw DNA in their blood.

Originally Posted by Danlnyc88

Haha are you serious man? It's not that deep... I am not a BMW purist or swapping an engine.

I have a white car with sakhir interior and I thought white needles would look nice with the red clusters, and to me it looks amazing. A lot of people did too and reached out to me including the guy above. The orange needle with red cluster looks bad.

I understand you don't like them and that's fine but your comparisons are ridiculous...lol

It's the last M car and probably Bmw with real needles in cluster. I somewhat understood when everyone went for red start and M1-M2 buttons mod, which was completely unnecessary but this, this hurts more than words can describe.

[Pqbrown]

Originally Posted by F82///M

It's the last M car and probably Bmw with real needles in cluster. I somewhat understood when everyone went for red start and M1-M2 buttons mod, which was completely unnecessary but this, this hurts more than words can describe.

Imagine being so triggered by a person who swapped out their gauge needles on a car you’ve never seen by a person you don’t even know…cope level 0

[NSX2M4]

I like it. I might try it out myself. I wish we could change the stock gauge illumination to amber. That would be a home run for me. Classic bimmer.

[Danlnyc88]

Originally Posted by F82///M

It's the last M car and probably Bmw with real needles in cluster. I somewhat understood when everyone went for red start and M1-M2 buttons mod, which was completely unnecessary but this, this hurts more than words can describe.

I can't say I share the same sentiment about the needles but I completely understand.

It's similar to how I felt when Foleds started coming out. Now that's a real butchery of M engineering lol.