Thread: Land Rover DIY A pillar gauges

After a few rainy Sundays, and not being happy with my console mounted gauges, I set about fabricating them into the A-pillar skyline style.. Here is the finished product, and I am very happy with the results.

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Here is the PDF with all the photos. See below for instructions.

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Outline below is the process I went through. Allow for one week, with some sanding and painting every day to complete the project.


1. Cut three equal lengths of 60mm PVC pipe, pull off your A pillar, and remove the speaker from it, then put it back on.



2. Sand or cut off a similar sized corner on each piece



3. Hold the cut and cornered piece on your A pillar, and continue to sand and cut the corner of each one until you can get them all lined and aiming at you. Attach them all to the A pillar with a few drops of superglue.



4. Once they are in the position, liberally apply more super glue or araldite. Once its set, carefully pull the A pillar off using some flat head drivers, then pull a womans stocking over the whole pillar and pipe assembly.

5. Pull the stocking down bit by bit, and put a drop of superglue where it makes contact with either the A pillar or the PVC pipe. Continue doing this around the face of each pipe until the stocking is fastened down everywhere. Do the same along the edges of the A pillar, then cut away the excess stocking once it has dries.

6. Get a medium fibreglassing kit, mine was about $40 from Bunnings which did the job easily. Apply 2-3 coats of just the mixed resin over the entire assembly allowing 12 hours for each one to dry.

7. Once the entire surface of the stocking is stiff, start using the fibreglass sheets. I cut them into 1 inch by 1inch squares. Apply a new coat of resin, and cover the assembly in the hairy fibreglass squares, sorry I forgot to picture this bit. Once it covered, liberally apply more resin over the dry square until everything is wet.

8. Allow 24 hours to dry, then start sanding. This took me hours, but the more you do it, the better it will be. I had to apply a few more fibreglass patches in places I had missed.

9. Using a 52mm hole saw, carefull cut out the holes for the gauges to fit in. I messed up again here, and had to do a little more fibreglassing and sanding.

10. Do a final sand with fine grit sand paper, and don't be afraid to apply more resin, you will only make a better product.

11. Drill out holes in the back of the pillar to fit your gauges wires

12. Apply a few good coats of rattle spray

13. Pop the A pillar back into place after you have fed your wires through the holes.

14. Line up your gauges and araldite them into place

5-6 yrs ago I did almost exactly the same thing in my D2.

I put photos up here but have no idea where to find them.

the guages I bought were from Super cheap but a well know brand SAAS ,and had multicolourerd back lightingwhich were good to change when night driving as the different colours could relax your eyes.

I had water temp , oil pressure , turbo boost and battery volts on display.

I set mine as low on the a pillar as I could.