Messy dash - advice / gauges needed.

[itiejim]

See the photo below of my rather messy dash - not a pretty sight I'm sure you'll agree



I really just want to get the dash back to looking standard-ish, I'm not too worried about the actual dash board, I can trim that, but the gauges are a mess.

I have ordered a set of original steering wheel buttons and have a set of stickers for them, however, the gauges present more of a problem.

So - options-

1) Source a set of stansard Cerb clocks to replace my missing ones - could be expensive and I understand that the original dual gauge is virtually impossible to find used.

2) Get a nice dual guage (oil temp/pressure) to go where the current oil pressure gauge is and try to source or make some original looking clock faces for both that and the water temperature gauge and then buy a used fuel gauge in the right colour?

3) Any other ideas?

In the meantime, if you've got any spare gauges around that I could buy I'd be interested. I also need the dash legends - Bell Hill Garage have them on ebay at £3 each - is that reasonable?

Any thoughts or advice would be most welcome

[Greeny]

We just did a group buy from Speedy Cables for oil temperature dials. I am sure they will be able to provide you with the matching dials you are missing

[QuiteQuietCerb]

the gauges are very easy to replace, did it a couple of months ago. Bell hill also have a clock and fuel gauge of a griff (same as the cerb) for 30 pounds each. For the oil/temp gauge you can either go direct to speedy cable to see if they can help, or get one from one of the scrapyards, along with the cables, and then send it to speedy cables for reconditioning.

[itiejim]

Yes I did see that, I don't really want to have to buy virtually a complete set of new gauges though.

I might see if they'd do just the faces.

[trackcar]

Just having the tacho and speedo faces done in black wouldmake it look better and is probably the cheapest way of doing it without replacing everything

[itiejim]

Ahah - good idea

I'll try speedy cables to see if they can help.

[Byker28i]

It's not too bad but I find the dash lights a little colourful.

[trackcar]

the dash lights were how the early cerberas were, thats std for James' car. they actually work really well because you can see them working even in bright sunshine .. TVR later changed the dash lights , but no-one could see them in bright sunshine hence the addition of the buzzer to tell you when the indicators were on.. you couldn't see the green tell-tale lights! good old TVR

[itiejim]

I never realised they were standard - thought they'd been changed for aftermarket bits.

So were they originally unlabelled?

[trackcar]

yes they were unlabelled. the steering wheel should have the correct black buttons with labels though.

[sonnylad]

Hi James,

YHM

Russ

[itiejim]

sonnylad said:

Hi James,

YHM

Russ

Thanks Russ, so do you!
James