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why are speedo and tac diff colors?

  • Thread starter Thread starter mhobryan
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ONe is faded one is not
perhaps the black one is a recent swap out.

No matter there was a guy on here that sold decal overlay thongs to refurb dials.

Be damned if I can recall who it was though
 
Was Rudy...but he no longer does them..unless someone else I am not aware of has taken up the torch.
 
on second reading I do not think they were thongs.
Things they were.

You can prolly get em out there on the internet somewhere at a place the specializes in decals and such.
 
I'm not buying one is faded one is not...

have an 81 GS650, and just bought an 82 GS650 - both have a brown speedo and a black tach. Also checked out a 4k GS on ebay, had the exact same thing...

post some pics of two with the same color, and I'll believe it.
 
mhobryan said:
I'm not buying one is faded one is not...

have an 81 GS650, and just bought an 82 GS650 - both have a brown speedo and a black tach. Also checked out a 4k GS on ebay, had the exact same thing...

post some pics of two with the same color, and I'll believe it.
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Like this. Glare on the speedo makes it look a little different but they are both the same black and both origin.

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Maybe it's a model year thing? My 1980 GS850 came with a dark brown face on both. I replaced the tach with one from a 1980 GS750 and it was the same color as well.
 
My 78 GS750 gauges are dark brown........well......for the time being, at least.....
 
eil said:
Maybe it's a model year thing? My 1980 GS850 came with a dark brown face on both. I replaced the tach with one from a 1980 GS750 and it was the same color as well.
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Agree it's a model year thing...real question is did they mix the colors up too? The two GS's I have both have brown speedo, black tach. If it was just one, I would suspect that the Speedo was switched out .... but two?

EDIT:

And looking at the one FS on the forum with only 4k miles, the Speedo also looks brown... http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=205914

Things that make you go hmmm...
 
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