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Old 02-02-2002, 02:43 PM
Steve Siedlecki Steve Siedlecki is offline
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Hi,everyone, Just a little 2 cents worth.
I have purchased the autometers from HOC About a year ago. Needless to say the bezels and lenses fell off the speedo and tach. The bezels are plastic and they are glued to the housing.
No problem I sent them back to them and they sent them back to autometer. They came back repaired with a sticker from autometer. Didn't have them in the dash more then a day and they fell off again.
When I looked at them, all they did was add more glue. My experience with plastic models tells me that no glue sticks to chrome plated plastic!
Being a little pi***d off at this point I decided
to take matters into my own hands! I carefully scraped the inside of the plastic bezel with an exacto knife to expose raw plastic. Then I used a little clear silicone to glue them back on. So far they are stuck!
Just my tale of wo....
Steve
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