Oil Temp Overlays from New Vintage

[RSBob]

Have been wanting to go from meaningless lines to numbers for oil temp but not wanting to pay to send the gauge in some place and paying $150. Stumbled upon New Vintage USAs site. An overlay can be yours for less than $50 including shipping. They also provide illustrated instructions. Just ordered mine. PayPal required.

911 OIL TEMPERATURE/PRESSURE MODULE OVERLAYS - New Vintage USA INC

[jamesrg]

ordered one for my 87. Got it in sitting on my bench and will be changing it when I do the steering wheel and LED lights.
Seems like a quality product.

[RSBob]

Purchased one of their "Combo" gauges (oil temp & pressure, volts & fuel) which you see to the left of each post. It lives in my 914 3.0 and is total quality. Don't believe they offer the combo any longer. No affiliation.

[Arne2]

I liked that idea, but wanted the number scale in Celsius instead, and when I contacted New Vintage they said I'd need to pay for custom work. So I tried making my own in Photoshop, with reasonable success. Mine is for style B above. I printed my first draft on glossy photo paper, which isn't totally correct, but still looks good enough that I can't tell the difference unless the sun shines directly on the gauge over my shoulder. Someday I'll print a page of them on a matte finish paper and that should be really close.

Poor focus on the picture, the numbers are plenty sharp in real life.

[Lyle O]

Originally Posted by Arne2

I liked that idea, but wanted the number scale in Celsius instead, and when I contacted New Vintage they said I'd need to pay for custom work. So I tried making my own in Photoshop, with reasonable success. Mine is for style B above. I printed my first draft on glossy photo paper, which isn't totally correct, but still looks good enough that I can't tell the difference unless the sun shines directly on the gauge over my shoulder. Someday I'll print a page of them on a matte finish paper and that should be really close.

Poor focus on the picture, the numbers are plenty sharp in real life.

I had the same thought regarding doing it in Celsius. Did they give you a price, Arne? I will give them a call, too. Maybe if enough of us do it they will give a better deal. They are actually located nearby, so I might visit them...

[merlinfe]

Used them a while ago. Good product and much easier to glance at. I wanted Celsius as well but I'm totally over that now.
Glare. GLARE!!! Ugh. So hard to photgraph these things.

[Arne2]

Lyle, my inquiry was several years ago, can't recall exactly how much, but it was a chunk. I figured at the time I might just as well buy a new gauge module rather than the face only. Seems like something around $250 for the first one, and any additional at the same time would be $40 each or so. And they indicated that they would not retain the necessary artwork, so if any one wanted one later, it would be the same deal - $250 for the first + ...

It was abundantly clear that they had no interest in taking this on. Which is why I moved on to doing it myself.

[Lyle O]

Thanks a lot, Arne. Since it's been a while, maybe they have changed their tune; I will find out and report back. Great effort on your part with the overlay you did. I am also wondering if Pawel (noboco) in Poland could do a high tech one. He does beautiful reproduction stickers and decals. I think I will reach out to him, also.

[Arne2]

Good luck, Lyle.

FWIW, I printed a whole page of these when I did mine, a full dozen of them. That way I had more in case I screwed up cutting one out, or in case it faded or deteriorated over time, I could just cut out and install a fresh one. As it turns out, neither has happened, I still have the first one I cut out in the car. No noticeable fading after 3 years so far.

[KTL]

Look up marks914 here on the forums. He's with New Vintage USA and was providing gauge services to Pelican members directly here for a number of years. Did some pretty nice stuff.

No affiliation on my part. Just passing along that he posted on here from 2003-2011 and made some nice gauge installs.

[Canada Kev]

Originally Posted by Lyle O

Thanks a lot, Arne. Since it's been a while, maybe they have changed their tune; I will find out and report back. Great effort on your part with the overlay you did. I am also wondering if Pawel (noboco) in Poland could do a high tech one. He does beautiful reproduction stickers and decals. I think I will reach out to him, also.

Nope, not really. I checked with New Vintage this week and they quoted me $200 for a Celsius overlay.

It seems a little odd to me that with the interest even on this thread it might make a good business case to stock the metric gauge overlay. Maybe they're waiting for the first customer to front the cash for the tooling...