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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by pinguhk
can not find any cluster for that price, most of them are over 200+
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=b...286.m270.l1313
Now it seems so yes. Sometimes there have been cheaper ones. couple weeks I looked one that was 30£ and 0 bids. But I agree 200+£ is a bit much
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by viktor
Now it seems so yes. Sometimes there have been cheaper ones. couple weeks I looked one that was 30£ and 0 bids. But I agree 200+£ is a bit much
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 06:21 AM
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Good morning Pingu,
Believe it or not i bought my cluster from an eBay seller in Europe with the eBay name Tony_trans_am for only Euro £20.00 + shipping. It came brand new in the factory box with zero kms on the odometer. I checked this morning for you but there are no current postings. You may want to email this seller to determine if he has more available. The price is definately unbeatable and he was listing more than one cluster when i bought (approximately a month ago).

Good luck!
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 07:02 AM
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Originally Posted by pinguhk
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Will do so =)

Originally Posted by Georgieb
Good morning Pingu,
Believe it or not i bought my cluster from an eBay seller in Europe with the eBay name Tony_trans_am for only Euro £20.00 + shipping. It came brand new in the factory box with zero kms on the odometer. I checked this morning for you but there are no current postings. You may want to email this seller to determine if he has more available. The price is definately unbeatable and he was listing more than one cluster when i bought (approximately a month ago).

Good luck!
Those may be same ones which I looked as they were in metric system also. I believe those were from cars that were imported to GB, as some of BMWs have steering on the left but speedo in miles. I deleted it while ago from my watching list, darn.
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 07:02 AM
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Double :S
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Old Jul 8, 2010 | 05:23 PM
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Hey guys and gals, just wanted to share the results of my attempt. Thanks to you guys who started this and shared it with everybody else. Special thanks again to nomis_nehc for putting up with all my questions Below is what mine looks like. Went a bit crazy on the red marker due to me thinking it was going to be pink in the end but it turned out really nice! I did my dials a metalic silver and yellow strip for the cruise.

pic below with it dimmed all the way down.
Changing the orange LED to white LED on the cluster to look like M5 or-img_0236.jpg

pic below with it turned all the way up, sorry for the blurry pic!
Changing the orange LED to white LED on the cluster to look like M5 or-img_0237.jpg
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Old Jul 8, 2010 | 05:31 PM
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Nice, looks nice and clean

If you want to get rid of the hint of red on the needle, be sure to color the needle all the way down on the opposite side.
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Old Jul 8, 2010 | 05:35 PM
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thanks, I colored that thing on the top, bottom, everywhere else I can get red on except the sides, lol..... All in all, pretty stoked about it!! thanks again for your help
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Old Jul 8, 2010 | 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by suthurnbimmur
Hey guys and gals, just wanted to share the results of my attempt. Thanks to you guys who started this and shared it with everybody else. Special thanks again to nomis_nehc for putting up with all my questions Below is what mine looks like. Went a bit crazy on the red marker due to me thinking it was going to be pink in the end but it turned out really nice! I did my dials a metalic silver and yellow strip for the cruise.

pic below with it dimmed all the way down.
Attachment 109057

pic below with it turned all the way up, sorry for the blurry pic!
Attachment 109059
Silver dose look nice but on the LCI car it has the silver ring so it might be OTT.
At 1st it was very bright which I had to turn it down but after a few weeks my eyes were adapted to it and need to turn it up to full and soon my eye adapted that and it was OK on full light
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Old Jul 8, 2010 | 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Georgieb
Good morning Pingu,
Believe it or not i bought my cluster from an eBay seller in Europe with the eBay name Tony_trans_am for only Euro £20.00 + shipping. It came brand new in the factory box with zero kms on the odometer. I checked this morning for you but there are no current postings. You may want to email this seller to determine if he has more available. The price is definately unbeatable and he was listing more than one cluster when i bought (approximately a month ago).

Good luck!
thanks but I think he is only selling pre-LCI and non LCI version so looks like I need to take my out.
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