geosss

i"ve tried all kinds of combinations, from siply white faces to plasma clusters and i thinck this is the best one i had, what do yiou guis think .

if anybody wants to change their cluster, i can direct you and help you do it,
learned a lot of things and from this but i spent at least 600 dollars in all kins offaces and plasma colors till i got to this. i honestly think i't was worth it.

Saijin_Naib

Its nice. I'm workign with Moman on getting US MPH ones made. He even has the OEM layout available for the set.

geosss

which one did you chose.?
what model and what color?

tmaguire

Let us know when Moman has the mph version available please, thanks!

Saijin_Naib

I will! If you don't mind, I have in my thread (Possible Modifications to 1991 300ce) a post relating to the MoMan plasma gauges. I ask for people's year/model info and shots of their clusters.

If you would, please add your info. He has not gotten back to me yet but I do believe it should be a short while before we have US spec plasma gauges.

AndreNY

awsome it looks like a new benz cluster, i also like your radio

bsmuwk

HOWWW???!!!!
That's freaking awesome!!!

Saijin_Naib

Confirmation that production on the US Spec MPH gauges for w124/w201 is under way

Now we just wait.

geosss

it is verry easy , 70 or 80 bucs for the plasma faces,
and then the hard part comes,
take out the cluster instrument, not that hard, rather easy if u know what you are doing, the hardest problem i had was to conect the power to the plasma, because it comes with a relay and you have to conect it to a power source,
it is easyer to instal a secound button, but what i did, i opened up the dash, opend the light switch , wich has about 20 wiers, and i conected straight form there. so when i'm turning the hed lights it turns on ,
what i did, wasn't careful with the wiers, and it is a big round thing that holds each wire individually, so all of them came out, and did't know wich one goes were. but went ot a junk yard , found a 320 e got that asambley obened it carefully and i aranged it back. so for me that was my bigest problem.

geosss

and also this guy moman hist he's the man, ha has also other patterns , you can check it on e.bay, i found him on e bay germany

geosss

i liove those rims man. nice

tmaguire

Forum search of "Moman plasma" didn't bring up the thread. Could you post a link?

bsmuwk

and those will be plasma gauges?

geosss

this is the linkhttp://cgi.ebay.de/Mercedes-W124-W126-W201-190-Plasma-tacho-glow-gauge-/130429248165?pt=Autoteile_Zubeh%C3%B6r&hash=item1e 5e3062a5

geosss

yep, all you do you just atach it on top of the existing gauges

Saijin_Naib

Geosss is correct. MoMan is the seller on ebay, the information I've been giving you guys is from our private email correspondence. As I mentioned, I approached him a number of months ago asking for US-Spec MPH gauges but he was not interested because demand was so low.

Now however, I believe we have at least a few users who would be interested. Lets make this worth his while, yeah?

bsmuwk

I'm definitely in as long as it's a 160mph gauge and ISN'T some funky blue color. I like the white/gray deal geosss has going on. That's just near damn perfect right there.

Saijin_Naib

MoMan has white and green and 2 shades of blue to choose from. I'd prefer an amber like we have now, but white is a close second.

geosss

ive tried them all, had the funky blue color, , but that doesnt look like a mercedes color,
so white i think is the best color, and waht i did i changed the bulbs in all the buttons(almoust) in white as well, still looking for some small ones to fit into the window switches

1382

I am interested in your dials
What about the needles for the gauges ?
I see in your pictures that they have not been changed
Would you be kind enough to let me know how it is done ?

geosss

what i did i painted the needles in white. yes i will help you if you need any let me know what you need

stormtigers

Hey Geoss that looks good.
Did you ever take shots of the other colors by the way ?
I was leaning towards changing to white with blue plasma but sseeing the dash is dark coloured and the cluster essentially 'black' I guess the dark background seems to fit in better. I have seen a few on ebay such as


http://cgi.ebay.de/Plasma-Tacho-TACH...#ht_2487wt_929
by some seller named wurmcut which look okay.

But I also found some from xtuners at


http://www.xtuners.com/catalog/produ...-240-kmh-p-388 also.

There is an aspect to them that may not suit, e.g economy guage on the ebay one which would seem to say it is not from an 88-89 w124 and the xtuners concern is whether the gauges mount the same way between left and right hand drive vehicles (mine being right drive). Anyone got any thoughts on that ?

Incidentally your radio setup wasn't very clear - what have you got in there ?


Cheers

geosss

you can look for my other threads, i do have pictures with all i've tried, the other ones looks verry nice but i don't know if it fits a mercedes, i don't see blue as a mercedes lights collor, though it is verry nice, that's why i chosed in the end to stick with the white ones,
the dvd is a touch screen jvc, and i think it is the best match for ower model , here's a clear pic with it
take care

stormtigers

Hey Geoss
I finally own my CE300 as you may have seen from my recent thread.
I have come back to your cluster thread though as it appears to me that the existing lighting of the cluster illuminates the entire area rather than backlighting the dials. I assume your's did as well before the mod. If this is the case how does the plasma replacement work in this area as it doesn't seem to bleed into the cluster area anywhere near the amount the standard bulbs do. Did you remove the standard illumination (2 bulbs top left/right of the cluster) ?
Cheers

geosss

I had the bulbs removed but now I have some white ones . You can look on eBay for moman's cluster. They come all three faces wired and it self iluminates so u don't need any exterior bulbs . It has an switch button included . So all u have to do is take out the cluster open it remove the needleindicators and stick it to the original ones. Get power to it and you are ready to roll. If u want to go the hard way ( have it on when you turn the lights only ) like I did let me know when u get it and I'll tell u how I did it. Good luck