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Old Mar 28, 2003 | 08:35 PM
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Default Silver guages installed - need help!

I have installed some silver reverse glow guages and now my needles are all pointing to the wrong places. When I start the car the needles all go up as they should but do not fall all the way back down. I have checked to see if they are hanging up on something, but it appears not. Any help on getting these adjusted is greatly appreciated.

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Old Mar 29, 2003 | 06:57 AM
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If you had to remove the needles to install the gauges, I hope you had a piece of paper and wrote down where the needles pointed when the car was started! If not you are in a world of hurt and probably need to reference another C5 to see where they go on start up. The other thing is I have a bad feeling about the size of the cluster as you will have to plug it up with the cover off to manipulate the needles! Having put my white gauges in without having to remove the needles--I know how hard this is going to be! Good luck
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