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Fatty
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Postby Fatty » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:07 pm

the rings must cost about 28 cents to produce tho... were they really that anal about cost cutting ?
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Postby Craig » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:11 pm

Anal enough to replace chromed bolts with normal ones.
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Postby Okibi » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:25 am

I've heard this claim before but I think they were just tying to update the style to a more modern format.
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Postby Alfadog » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:16 am

Fatty wrote:by the way... i think it looks realy good. i am on a mission to remove all chrome from my car. just trying to figure out how to deal with the door handles etc.... maybe paint them black ? so if you ever want to swap gauge faces alfadog, let me know !


Have you tried opening it up and seeing if you can remove the rings? I would have thought they would be separate pieces?

As for door handles, I think powdercoating would be best!
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Postby Locutus » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:35 pm

my aussie 97 NA8 LE has no chrome rings either. i only noticed that they were missing after i bought my car. lol

i just assumed that they deleted the chrome rings the same time they replaced the oil pressure gauge with the idiot light.
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Postby Ajay » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:29 pm

dont quote me on this but when i cut the plastic lense off my cluster to put the chrome surround in.. im sure my rings did come off.. (re-glued them back on though).. maybe find a wrecked early NA?
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