The process from start to finish took me 30 minutes. VERY easy to do and no surprises at all. There is no excuse for anyone not being able to do this and everything comes apart and falls together so easily it was almost like I was waiting for something to go wrong. It never did, SUPER easy install, only 2 screws to the whole thing.
The rings from Hong Kong are plastic and take about a month to get, find a US seller. I see nothing wrong with the plastic rings, and they might just be a lot less painful to install, see below.
Remove the two screws at the top of the cluster.
Use a small pic to release the top of the cluster. The unit will come out effortlessly without issue as it does not fit as tight as say...... an E36 cluster which you have to "dig" out.
Unclip the three clips and remove the cluster.
Get your rings and cluster on a nice white workspace so you can see everything.
Pop the two top clips at the same time.
The bottom can be popped one at a time since the top pressure has been released.
Just lift the face off.
The plastic rings flex and allow you to simply push them through without a VERY painful disassembly of the front plastic area. If you order metal, I'd probably just bend them through as well since they have to return to a circle when you push them into the holes, but they won't go as easy as the plastic, which just fall into place.
(Side Note: the small rings are sometimes hard to get into place and have to be pushed quite hard to set properly.)
A little dab of epoxy around a few points of the back of the ring will ensure they stay put in the summer as the heat causes them to change size.
Isn't that great? Now just set it back together after the epoxy dries in about ten minutes.
Time to get back in the truck and plug it in!
Put the two screws back in the top of the cluster.
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!
