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I need to know more about the housing that you need.

All black except a painted silver bezel ring?

I noticed that you had a chrome bezel ring in you photo gallery; can you move that to the new unit?

What year is the MINI/Tach that you need?

S.

 

For those of you who wondered what was behind the tachometer face here is what it looks like with the face plate removed.

I used a dull exacto knife to slit it to get it over the needle. I have as yet not figured out how to remove the needle. I will Post once I either figure it out or trash it trying to remove the needle.

 

That scenario would not surprise me! The Motoring Assistants are viewing what goes on behind the wheel:eek6:

When I dismantled that tach I spotted it and also wondered what the heck it was...

 

I tried several tools to try and lift that tach needle straight up out of the housing and none worked. Soooo, I tried putting it up against its internal stop and twisting it out and up; it worked. The only fly in the ointment was the normal very free moving needle was now sluggish. You could still feel the several internal resistance points (what feels like magnets) but all the rest of the movement felt sluggish si I will not do that with the tach in my car.

I did manage to split the tach face and remove the face with the needle still attached to the tach. The same scenario would work with the speedo.

Next step it to see what can replace the adhesive that keeps the tach face flat in its housing. You have to be careful when removing the everything because the plastic tabs that need to be released are sort of wimpy. When I was removing the circuit board from the tach housing I snapped one, good thing I learned on the junkyard tach!

 

The tach was my concern and the double sided sticky tape should to it just fine. I tested the tach face that I cut off (slit to slide over the needle) and the edges sit down just fine, its the areas that were necessary to slit/cut that did not want to sit flat. I think cutting the new face (once it show up on my doorstep) on an absolutely flat surface will help too. Cutting the old face to get it off means that you have to cut with hollow space behind it(while in the old tachometer) and that I am sure distorts the gauge face.

I found it curious that the needle base pin on the tach looks just like the one for the speedo! It is a mystery to me why one would pull straight off and the other be such a buggar!

Thanks for your input. It is always easier to follow the steps of someone who has been there before

 

VINYL STYLES This fellow might.

Tachoscheibe Tachofolie Tacho Folie Scheibe Meilen Km/h Mini R55 Umskaliert von MPH zu KMH This is where my gauge faces are coming from, their web site is German and the amount of info translated into English is not complete but they do correspond in English to Posted questions.

 

Yep, here is what the OEM looks like.

 

UPDATE on this project.

I tried many different times to order the instrument faces from this company ( Tachoscheibe Tachofolie Tacho Folie Scheibe Meilen Km/h Mini R55 Umskaliert von MPH zu KMH ) and even though they advertise that they take PayPal it appears that in reality they do not. Their ability to communicate in English is virtually non-existent. When the copies of of the PayPal emails to me were presented to them they claimed they were fake. I spent a considerable amount of time on the Phone with PayPal and they say that these people are not a "Registered" site.

Steer well clear of these scammers!

I am now searching for another provider of instrument faces...

 

I checked out their site and communicated with them. They presently do not have face plates for the 2nd Gen cars, but they are working on it!

At least there is good communication!

Thanks for the suggestion!

 

Have you tried to remove the speedo and tach needles??