not sure if this is in the right place but here goes ...

i was bored one day, so i thought it would be fun to try to change the color of my guage cluster. i had read the DIY post on it so i thought the bulb swap would not be to difficult, and it wasnt. taking the cluster apart was not the issue, it was putting it back together that proved troublesome. i got the whole thing back together and found out that all my needles were off. i figured out how to fix all my needles except for the speedometer, which is still off by about 10 mph. what should i do? should i take it back to Mitsubishi and just bite the bullet and have them fix it? would they go rip **** on me if i did that?

within this problem i also have two others, lol. does anyone know what kind of bulbs are in the es cluster, cause i bought 194, like posted in the DIY, and they arent the right kind? another problem that i have is that because my cluster was open for so long while i was trying to fix it, i lost the cover to the gas needle(i get a little absentminded when i focus extensively on one thing, lol). does anyone have an old cluster that i could just buy that cover off of?

thanx for the help

 

throw you hands in the air, scream extremely loud and run in circles, that's what you should do.

But on a realistic note, they would horribly horribly charge you for fixing that, if they even would. Probably cheaper to buy a new cluster than going that route. Did you actually take the needles off? if you did you could pull it off, rotate it just enough and put it back on.

 

i tried moving the needles to fix it again, but its still somehow off by 10 mph. does anyone have a es cluster with around 12000-13000 miles on it?

 

I'm not too familiar with the EVO yet, but I know that on my Celica the ECU automatically calibrates the cluster when reset. All I had to do was disconnect my battery (neg terminal), wait for about 10 min, and reconnect. Then the needles on the cluster go through a full sweep as the ECU "learns" what the range is.

 

voidhawk, thats a really good idea, ill try that tomorrow. but a stupid question, does that mess with the odometer or anything like that, jw?

 

Nah - those miles are yours for good .

 

voidhawk - awsome, thanx alot.

does anyone know what bulbs are in the cluster?

 

should be a T1.5 bulb assembly

 

not to dredge up an old thread but one of my needles is a bit off from putting a new face on the guages. did disconnecting te battery terminal move everything back to normal?

 

why don't u try it?

 

i'm going to, but it was almost 10 last night and it was raining i i didn't wanna go out side, lol. i'm gonna do it though this afternoon when i get home.

 

i havent had time to yet. ive been going through all my finals stuff already, so ive been kind of over worked. plus i was waiting untill i could find my guage bulbs so i could change those too.

 

When one of you guys try it, be sure to post and let us all know!

 

i did it, and it kinda worked. it got the tach and the speedo back to normal, but the gas gauge was still off. so make sure you get the gas and engine temp gauges right and you're set.

 

the gas might work if it was a full tank?