Fitting guages to ae111

[shon_4age]

Hey iv got a 1998 toyota levin with a blacktop 4age. Just wondering how I can fit a tachometer guage, oil pressure and water temperature guage. Like how do I wire it up? what to fix it to? and how easy is it?

[Bling]

tacho? its got one from factory, why did you waste your money on a second one?

they mechanical or what?

[shon_4age]

well to be honest i was one of those guys that used to think whats the point of fitting tachos on cars that have them from factory but I got gifted one of those guages set that are on sale on trademe the one with a 3 pod and 3 guages already fitted in. So yer just wanna fit it in and although i wont really bother looking at the tiny 2" tacho but since its there i might aswell hook it up..any help would be appreciated because im pretty much an amateur

[Bling]

just sell the tacho to me and put in another guage that could be of use

[shon_4age]

i was thinking about that but who would really buy a 2" tacho? lol so yer uhm how do i hook all the 3 guages up? as i can see they are autoguage 7 color ones.

[Bling]

was a serious offer to buy it


but seriously, might be best to take them and your car to an auto sparky to get it done. Not the easiest things to wire up if you have no experience.

[Alex B]

was a serious offer to buy it


but seriously, might be best to take them and your car to an auto sparky to get it done. Not the easiest things to wire up if you have no experience.

Ya reckon? Not easy to explane of the interwebs as every car is different. But not a hard task. Unless im awesome and just don't realise it.

[Bling]

well he has no knowledge of what to do, the 3 guages probably have many wires, none of which are labelled or come with instructions, so yes i'd say thats best bet worth a shot though I guess......

[shon_4age]

do i hook them up to just light up? hehe its not like im really running a highly tuned car so not really need the guages to tell me anything. just the wank factor really

[Bling]

lol, in that case what coloured wires do you have? someone on here will be able to tell you which colours to wire where

[Calvin]

Behind the headunit there should be a plug the plugs into nothing. there are about 10 wires going to that plug. They are all illumination wires.
That should help with lighting the gauges.

From memory they are pink and green.. ?

[shon_4age]

so just basically cut the wires and join them to it..uhm how do i know which one is positive and grounding? dont have a test light