My original gauges have off-white lettering and look nice. The tach and speedometer have green lettering. The water gauge (250) has a yellow caution, orange warning section. I ordered a new water temperature gauge from Mid-America which looked identical to mine according to their online catalog photo. When it arrived, it had green lettering and a slightly different script style than my original, plus the new one has an orange caution, red warning section. Mid-America was very good about taking it back and paying both shipping costs.
I then ordered the gauge from Zip, which shows the white lettering in their photo and it arrived today. It looks identical to the one from Mid-America.
I can't find any references to this problem, or to a change in lettering colors during C2. Maybe my gauges have faded uniformly and it's all my problem? Or maybe the catalog places have changed to a new supplier? My fallback at this point is to carefully grind the rivets off the old and new one and swap faces, hoping glue will hold. I will only get one shot at that!
I then ordered the gauge from Zip, which shows the white lettering in their photo and it arrived today. It looks identical to the one from Mid-America.
I can't find any references to this problem, or to a change in lettering colors during C2. Maybe my gauges have faded uniformly and it's all my problem? Or maybe the catalog places have changed to a new supplier? My fallback at this point is to carefully grind the rivets off the old and new one and swap faces, hoping glue will hold. I will only get one shot at that!
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