The only thing I did different was to clean the guage faces and the odometer numbers with rubbing alcohol. It really sets off the new paint and cleaning job to have white odometer numbers and 1/10's actually white, not yellow. cleaning the inside of the plastic lens is a good idea also

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1999 E300DT (131,800) 154,000 Black on Black SOLD

2006 CLK 500 coupe Capri Blue on Grey (zoom,zoom)
47,000mi

04 VW TDI Passat 80,000mi
(Techno)

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