Changing Color of the Meter ? - Yamaha FZ6 Forums - International FZ6 Motorcycle Community Forum

hellstormer · 01-09-2008, 03:23 PM

Hi anyone here have done any mod to their meter ?

Stock wise is green color, wish to change to blue or red...

Can it be done ? Please share if you have done so...

Cheers !

01-09-2008, 04:34 PM

Not that I know of, but the 07-08s are orange.

**reiobard** · 01-09-2008, 04:54 PM

I know someone who has done it on their RC51 and they had to get different colored mini LED's that matched the LED's soldered to the circuit board.

My YZF used regular incandescent bulbs so it was easy to swap, but that was an all analogue cluster.

**Boneman** · 01-09-2008, 06:45 PM

Yes it can be done. It involves taking apart the instrument panel and unsoldering the surfuace mount LED's and replacing them.

These guys do LED mods: Welcome to Bluegauges.com

But others have asked them about the FZ6 and apparantly they cannot do them(?). Not sure why he can't.

Quote:

no luck w/ them, only r1, r6, fz1...i need for '07 fz6

If you know some basic electronics and can solder, I'm sure you could find replacement SMT LEDs and do the re-working yourself.

**reiobard** · 01-09-2008, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boneman

Welcome to Bluegauges.com

First one to send then an 07 gauge cluster gets them done for $10 to cover return shipping, who is gonna send them then new gauges?

hellstormer · 01-10-2008, 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boneman

Yes it can be done. It involves taking apart the instrument panel and unsoldering the surfuace mount LED's and replacing them.

These guys do LED mods: Welcome to Bluegauges.com

But others have asked them about the FZ6 and apparantly they cannot do them(?). Not sure why he can't.

If you know some basic electronics and can solder, I'm sure you could find replacement SMT LEDs and do the re-working yourself.

Thanks pal for the info ! I'm familiar with soldering, finding the rite SMT LEDs should be no problem... But its a big risk performing this surgery on the instrument panel... If destory it would cost a BOMB

Would dismantle the instrumental panel, and see whether the mod is possible and share with you guys...

Cheers !

Chaosratt · 01-14-2008, 01:40 PM

Anything is possible. I've replaced all the SMDs in my Xbox360 with blues (Console and controllers).

I wouldnt touch the cluster though, warrenty and all (360 I got second hand without a warrenty before it was extened, so at the time it didnt have one).

avogt18 · 01-16-2008, 04:39 PM

I took my 07 guage apart, i wanted to see how hard it would be. i may go through with this...

**reiobard** · 01-16-2008, 05:26 PM

wow, good work, keep the pics coming if you move forward with this...

crazy_canuck · 02-03-2008, 02:25 PM

were you successful in changing the color of you instrument panel?

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wrightme43 Guest Posts: n/a	Not that I know of, but the 07-08s are orange.

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reiobard Samurai FZ Soldier Bike: 2007 FZ6 (The Faster Blue) Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Hillsborough, NH Posts: 7,301 Thanks: 1,127 Thanked 1,412 Times in 974 Posts Rep Power: 113 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I know someone who has done it on their RC51 and they had to get different colored mini LED's that matched the LED's soldered to the circuit board. My YZF used regular incandescent bulbs so it was easy to swap, but that was an all analogue cluster.

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reiobard Samurai FZ Soldier Bike: 2007 FZ6 (The Faster Blue) Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Hillsborough, NH Posts: 7,301 Thanks: 1,127 Thanked 1,412 Times in 974 Posts Rep Power: 113 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	wow, good work, keep the pics coming if you move forward with this...

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crazy_canuck Member Bike: 2006/Yamaha/FZ6 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 53 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Rep Power: 10 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	were you successful in changing the color of you instrument panel?

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