NEW: 4.6/4.8 Style Intrument Panel Overlays.

[Sudesh]

You have to be very very careful when removing the needles, as there is a highly wound spring soldered to the needles which is extremly difficult to remove without poping the spring, and rendering the needles and cluster useless. I have a few BMW cluster that I took apart to do some mods on when I had an e39 540 and, removing the needles is something that an expert needs to do. I even have a set of red M5 needles that I removed to install on my 540 but when I went to remove the needles the spring popped so it put me off touching the original cluster.

[DocMike]

what happen to this group buy?

[Ecko]

Originally Posted by Sudesh

You have to be very very careful when removing the needles, as there is a highly wound spring soldered to the needles which is extremly difficult to remove without poping the spring, and rendering the needles and cluster useless. I have a few BMW cluster that I took apart to do some mods on when I had an e39 540 and, removing the needles is something that an expert needs to do. I even have a set of red M5 needles that I removed to install on my 540 but when I went to remove the needles the spring popped so it put me off touching the original cluster.

I agree with you, it's a very delicate process. I tried doing this with my E38 and to make a long story short, I had to purchase another cluster to replace the one I screwed up.

[Bimmer360]

any updates on the group buy?

[j0nblayz]

very bad idea to remove the needles, i was doing the grey overlay on my 4.4i, removed the temp needle, and the spring popped out, i finally got the needle back in, but took forever to get the right spot, would always be a little off, so the second time i took off the needle, the spring broke, had to fabricate my own spring.. not worth it, and the worst part was, i ended up taking out the overlay, i liked the black better afterwards with the chrome rings..

[Bimmer360]

i agree with jonblayz, just like him, i have removed the needles on my temp, and spring popped up. I was able to move it to right spot, but the needles goes up to 11 O' clock only.