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Old 12-28-2013, 04:48 AM   #1927
VWNate1
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What ET said ! .

My Son bought me the new face , it really does make the old guts look good as new again .

My ' glass ' was in terrible shape so I decided to try the Meguiar's Plastic Polish (I keep it in stock , great for old lenses too) and yes , I suppose a new one might have been better but......

The facia , there's two stock ones and many aftermarket color options to choose from .

I thought hard and chose the auto choke facia because I didn't want to have to modify the wiper switch harness , in retrospect I think having a manual choke would have been wiser .

I eventually bought a whole spare gauge cluster as I want to install this nice 12 volt 6 cylinder Jaguar tachometer I bought , in it .

When servicing the gauges , your most bang for buck , will be the facia .

Remember : those long sheet metal screws , some are chrome headed , a couple are black , depends on where they go ~ this typ of detail is where the " YOU CARE " part comes in .
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