britlude
09-09-2013, 05:30 PM
In my continuing quest to undo all Hondas great design work and drag the car into the 21st century, I have had another play! Keeping to the inside of the car, I’ve been brightening up the dash with a set of gauge trim rings from Stacy on NSXprime.
So, it was a case of out with the old….
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn41/thisYup/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3890.jpg (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/thisYup/media/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3890.jpg.html)
(I often see on Prime that the steering column shroud has to come off to remove the dash cluster… it doesn’t, you just have to move the steering wheel out and down with the adjuster levers, and be careful sliding the cluster out!!)
anyway, I did think the trim rings would be a simple slip fit onto the gauges, but it’s a bit more involved than that!! the rings on the standard dash are separate to the dash gauge plate and as the Stacy rings replace these it all has to come apart…
Here’s the plate removed
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn41/thisYup/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3891.jpg (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/thisYup/media/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3891.jpg.html)
and with the ‘rings’ popped off
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn41/thisYup/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3893-Copy.jpg (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/thisYup/media/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3893-Copy.jpg.html)
the outer small ring pairs came out easily, but the large speedo/rev counter edges were more difficult. There has been talk of glue, and heat, but I found most of the fixings were of the pin-through-hole-and-pin-melted type, with just a couple of dots of glue on the flat sections at the top. I placed the gauge face-plate face down on a hard clean flat surface, and using a wide screw driver pressed down on the face-plate around the edge of the ‘ring’, letting the flat surface push the ring back flush, with a satisfying click as the fixing lets go! You can’t go mad as the ‘rings’ are about 1mm proud of the face plate, so the faceplate can only move 1mm before it hits the hard surface!
So, it was a case of out with the old….
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn41/thisYup/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3890.jpg (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/thisYup/media/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3890.jpg.html)
(I often see on Prime that the steering column shroud has to come off to remove the dash cluster… it doesn’t, you just have to move the steering wheel out and down with the adjuster levers, and be careful sliding the cluster out!!)
anyway, I did think the trim rings would be a simple slip fit onto the gauges, but it’s a bit more involved than that!! the rings on the standard dash are separate to the dash gauge plate and as the Stacy rings replace these it all has to come apart…
Here’s the plate removed
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn41/thisYup/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3891.jpg (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/thisYup/media/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3891.jpg.html)
and with the ‘rings’ popped off
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn41/thisYup/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3893-Copy.jpg (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/thisYup/media/nsx%20stuff/nsx%20interior%20retrim%20bits/dash%20rings/2013-09-06-3893-Copy.jpg.html)
the outer small ring pairs came out easily, but the large speedo/rev counter edges were more difficult. There has been talk of glue, and heat, but I found most of the fixings were of the pin-through-hole-and-pin-melted type, with just a couple of dots of glue on the flat sections at the top. I placed the gauge face-plate face down on a hard clean flat surface, and using a wide screw driver pressed down on the face-plate around the edge of the ‘ring’, letting the flat surface push the ring back flush, with a satisfying click as the fixing lets go! You can’t go mad as the ‘rings’ are about 1mm proud of the face plate, so the faceplate can only move 1mm before it hits the hard surface!