Originally posted by randomtask77
Instead of painting them, why not just pull the bulbs out. Since you have the reverse indiglos illuminating your instrument cluster, you don't need the bulbs back there at all. Just save them until something goes wrong with your gauges, or you decide that you don't want them anymore.
I tried that, but the needles end up being really dark and invisible. If there is at least some light illuminating from behind the gauge cluster, the needles are at least somewhat lit up.