Freelander 1 Custom made Freelander 1 Plasma Dial's group buy?

Afternoon all, I've been looking for plasma dials for my freelander, and I've found only a couple of sets, some were tacky, some only came with a petrol tachometer, others with the fuel and temp gages transposed as per earlier models.

However, I was delighted to see that a genuinely nice looking set were available with both petrol and diesel Tachometers, and fuel gauge on left or right, as you can see from the pictures below they are lovely, not your usual boy racer blue and white...





Sadly, lovely as they are, they are only available in KMH not MPH. So I've opened dialogue with the manufacturer and they say if we drum up 15 sales they will make a batch in MPH for us. So I'm obviously looking to buy a set, so we need 14 others to make this happen, is anyone interested at roughly £60 a set?

Incidentally the metal rings are also available from another seller on eBay for about £30 a set:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rov...739582?hash=item33f837d0be:g:xQAAAOSw0ZZb1c4u

And they do them for heaters as well:


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rov...492347?hash=item33d38be33b:g:bnEAAOSw29Jb1eFx

If anyone is interested in buyng a set, please reply to this post putting your name below mine in the list...
1. Jayridium

Those dials look fugly to me. Chrome rings are well ok if you are in that sort of thing, I would like some matte aluminium...

I am generally quite supportive of dial swaps, having done a few on some of my old cars but those dials just don't look nice at all, well not to me anyway, others may have a different opinion but hope you get the numbers you need.

I'm thinking they're horrible, but that's just an opinion from someone who's the other side of 50.

I'm genuinely surprised that everyone who has commented thusfar prefers the stock dials:


Over the enhanced dials I'm trying to organise a group buy for:


Thanks to @Jay247 for the moral support, fingers crossed we get some interest, otherwise this upgrade will be aborted :-(

They wouldn't fit my facelift, and I think the facelift looks better than the pre-facelift dash. Not jazzy and space age like the replacements shown, but definitely more modern looking.

The stock pre-facelift binnacle, as I have on mine just now, IMHO looks like something from a late eighties car, that vibe is compounded by the single din stereo :-(. The facelift binnacle is nicer, but as we discussed in one of my previous threads, it is essentially impossible to fit it to a prefacelift car due to the wildly different electronics. I like the enhanced gauges, hence suggesting a group buy on them. To me, they are far from fugly, and instead are a bit more premium looking and add a bit of high-tech look to the interior, which I feel is befitting the car, given how it gets its offroad capabilities through an electronically controlled autobox and some very trick ABS, and its ultimate limit of roadholding is marked out by interventions from same advanced ABS.

These gauges would also be more in keeping with the other daily drivers in my collection, comprising of a reasonably well optioned BMW 635d and a fully loaded Citroen C5 3.0d exclusive. To try and uplift the freelander's interior to something more modern, I'm aiming for "OEM+", as in I'm trying to make my modifications to the interior look like optonal extras or genuine accessories, not like a supermakret sweep style raid on the interior accessories section of halfords. So, simultaneously to the dash cosmetic treatment, if it surprisingly gets enough people interested to enable it to happen, as part of the same workscope, I'm going to jury rig in a facelift centre console and switches, relocating the tailgate window and lock switches to beside the handbrake in the blanks reserved for rear door windows (mine is a van--> 3door converison), reposition the hazards to another point on the dashboard, and use the face lift centre console's larger stereo space to put in a double din touch screen. First head unit will be a standard sized double din, next year there will be a second take the main purpose of which will be to get a head unit with an oversized screen so that it can neatly fills the aperture for the facelift OE head unit, and in itself look OE. The gauges getting fancy faces on them would be another part of that uplift process.

Given that of three people to reply to this thread so far, all have expressed how much they dislike the dials, and noone has expressed any interest in getting a set, I'm very pessimistic about getting this groupbuy off the ground, as such I'm kind of resigned to being stuck with the stock gauges :-( Having said that I'll check this thread in a couple of weeks and see if its changed direction.

One thing I've noticed over the years, is just how few members are willing to improve or personalize their FL1s. I suspect that the value of these vehicles is now so low, that many owners simply don't think it's worth the money. Preferring to drive them until they stop, or simply trading them in for something newer.

I had done a few useful mods to my SE, all of which since I'm selling it, are now in a box, waiting for fitting into my replacement FL1.

I'd not considered the dash style to be dated on mine, simply because the facelift doesn't look it.

Now when I had my MG ZS180, I loved the MG dash, which at the time looked like a good improvement on what was effectively a 90s Honda dash.

The pre facelift FL1 dash is similar to that old Honda dash, being as the FL1 was a bit of a parts bin special anyway.

So if you like the idea of a replacement dash, and don't mind spending out on it then fine, go ahead. It's personal preference at the end of the day. Maybe you could so a single person group buy?, and sell a excess on Ebay to recoup your outlay.

Don't loose heart, simply because there's no takers on here, as the readership here, isn't what it used to be.

not interested myself, have a F2 but you could try the facebook Freelander Owners Club, you never know you might get a few bites.

The prospects of this happening aren't looking good... I'm not on FaceBook so can't go to the FB club suggested earlier.

Are they easy to fit? I remember some years ago someone on the MG rover forum did a similar project and they looked pretty good too.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you are 100% right, the original pre-facelift dash looks old because it is derived from an early 1990s Honda (like most Rovers of this period). But as the cars get older, you'll have people who will appreciate originality, and on my 2001, I actually quite like the green-faced instruments that goes with the original design theme of my 3-door.



Will the replacement instruments have the same warning lights that come through the instrument face?