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can you put the older black gauges in the 04 tacos?

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by keakar, Apr 30, 2015.

  1. Apr 30, 2015 at 8:00 PM
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    keakar

    keakar [OP] Well-Known Member

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    got those ugly white gages and I want them gone.

    can it be done?

    the gage overlays I see out there only go up to the 200's and there is nothing for the 01-04 tacos anywhere that I can find.

    is there anyone who does the instrument overlays for the 04 tacos?
     
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  2. Apr 30, 2015 at 8:01 PM
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    2004TacomaSR5

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    Tacoma is stock and staying that way, Pickup is TBA as of now.
    Just swap in black gauges from an earlier model, they should be identical.
     
  3. Apr 30, 2015 at 8:04 PM
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    so it doesn't matter if the battery, oil, and other lights are missing from the other gages?
     
  4. Apr 30, 2015 at 8:07 PM
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    When I had my 2000 tacoma with stock black gauges I wanted the 01-04 white gauges. I swapped instrument clusters with another member on here and it worked fine. Just make sure your engine and transmission type are the same. If I recall correctly, you can just swap out the odometer unit so your mileage info stays correct.
     
  5. Apr 30, 2015 at 8:12 PM
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    Funny... i love my white gauges. Oh well, to each their own!
     
  6. May 15, 2015 at 4:14 PM
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    I don't love them but I am getting used to them now, actually easier to read too.

    the biggest thing that made me hate them was everything glowing redish orange at night and I found out I can make it any color I want so i'll stick with the white gages and just do the gage cluster light mod on it.

    thanks for your help and advice guys
     
  7. May 15, 2015 at 5:08 PM
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    keakar

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    thanks, that's the link I was searching for

    I thought I had shown a link to them somewhere in a thread for somebody but when I searched for it again I couldnt find it and the places I did find taco gage faces, they only went up to the 00 models and all the 01-04 models were shown as "not listed"

    I would have ordered it right away if I hadn't seen the gage light mod, I like that look a lot so I decided that's the way im going to go with it so in a way im glad I wasn't able to find that link before but you nailed it and found exactly what I was looking for when I created this thread so thank you for that
     
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