I'm getting a reflection at night from the back lighting of a couple of my gauges. Specifically its the one mounted on the steering column and the one I have hooked up on the dash.

Any ideas on what I can do to eliminate this reflection? I have thoughts of some sort of visor, anything else?

Thanks, Aaron

 

u can try tinting your back window, i've got mine tinted and do alot of night driving and never had that problem

 

I will give that a try, I have the side windows tinted but i'll have to get the back ones tinted also. Been wanting to do that anyways, so now I have a reason. haha

Any other ideas?

Aaron

 

Aaron

I am guessing the reflection is on the windshield. I had the same problem. Yes that is what I did. I made a visor to go around the gauge with a piece of construction paper. (mine was black) and mounted it to the gauges with one of those rubber bands the girls hold their hair back with. It's a thin black string thick elastic band. Works great

 

i have my back window tinted and i still get the reflection of my gauges in it but man i love my back window tinted

 

Check out most any chrome shop they have chrome guage bezels with visors on them

 

I have my back window tinted and it causes everything to glare off of it. I have to open the back window at night to back up. But mine are limo tint so mught be to dark.

 

My truck has a sleeper and solid steel head-rack, so no back glass.

I have one big gauge in particular that made a big spot of light right in my line of vision.

It is the big ISSPRO pyro/boost combo-gauge that is mounted to the lip of the dash, directly above the column.


I cut a big rectangle of black plastic from a black anti-freeze jug and placed it between the gauge's mount and the dash; this got rid of the glare-spot, even after adding three of those blue LED spot-lights that shine on the gauge-face.

My knuckles occassionally brush the plastic, but it hasn't been a problem.


I am going to try the construction-paper/rubber-band trick on each individual gauge of my dash-top tri-gauge pod and, if it works out, I will replace the construction-paper with plastic.



I think I recently saw those chrome bezel-shields/hoods in a HarborFreight catalog (many many things that appear in their catalogs don't show on their website); they can be found in the big truck-stops also.