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Old 15 December 2011, 08:09 PM
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I am looking at buying a set of hawkeye Sti dials for my bugeye wrx with around 45k on them. My wrx has got 42500 on it, my question is should I change the the millage on the hawkeye dials to match mine or just leave it as its only a couple of thousand out?

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Old 15 December 2011, 08:13 PM
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I would just wait until your car has reached 45k then change them over.
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Originally Posted by chopperman
I would just wait until your car has reached 45k then change them over.
That could take a while, I only do around 3k a year.
Old 15 December 2011, 08:33 PM
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I'd change them but take some pics of the old speedo first. Put these pics in with the history file along with a note detailing what went on.
Would just give a new owner some piece of mind I think.
Old 15 December 2011, 08:35 PM
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Get that petrol in & put your foot down then.
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Agree with MattyB1983, that sounds like the proper thing to do.
Old 15 December 2011, 09:43 PM
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I wouldn't change them for the sake of 2.5k mileage just do as above photo old and new, put the date stamp on the pictures and keep them for future evidence.
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Originally Posted by MattyB1983
I'd change them but take some pics of the old speedo first. Put these pics in with the history file along with a note detailing what went on.
Would just give a new owner some piece of mind I think.
Originally Posted by The Veteran
Agree with MattyB1983, that sounds like the proper thing to do.
Originally Posted by daz1968
I wouldn't change them for the sake of 2.5k mileage just do as above photo old and new, put the date stamp on the pictures and keep them for future evidence.
Thanks guys that is what I was thinking and at least the millage is going up by 2.5k not down.
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Originally Posted by scixer6r
Get that petrol in & put your foot down then.


I have had my scoob for over two years and done just 7k. I like to keep the mileage down
Old 16 December 2011, 06:45 AM
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just a thought but you do know hawkeye sti dials have all the dccd stuff on them.
pre facelift blob or bug sti would be better as its a straight swap.
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Yeah but they aren't as nice.
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You will need to reverse the abs signal amongst a few other changes to get them to work, I fitted a set in my old my03 wrx when I had it, was a big improvement along with the my05 dash and door panel swap.
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Originally Posted by HT04
hello matey. just wondering, why are you changing them?

dan
Hello mate, how's it going?

Basically I want them as they look
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Originally Posted by daz1968
You will need to reverse the abs signal amongst a few other changes to get them to work, I fitted a set in my old my03 wrx when I had it, was a big improvement along with the my05 dash and door panel swap.
Can you remember what you had to do to make them work when you swapped them - I have facelift WRX speedos but they are not a straight swap and don't work as the old ones did when I plugged them in
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