Alfa Romeo 147 Installation Manual

Alfa Romeo 147

On board instruments installation guide

Alfa Romeo 147

On board instruments installation guide

This guide is describing how I installed oil temperature and oil pressure gauges to my Alfa
Romeo 147. I wanted to have them for a long time. I consider oil temp important as I want to know
when I can start to drive “temperamentally” after startup and oil pressure reading can warn me if

something is going wrong. And at last but not least.... I like the looks of the gauges in the car

interior ☺

Step by step guide:

First step was obviously getting the gauges. I searched many websites, first I wanted to
buy VDO gauges, but they where so expensive… At last I found gauges made by EQQUS.
Unknown brand to me but they looked nice and came with the necessary sensors for about 40 EUR.
I got them from
distribution network (www.conrad.de, www.conrad.at, …).

www.conrad.sk, but they can be found in many countries where Conrad has

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Gauges have very nice clean design, definitely nothing special, but they will match any
interior and backlight can be switched between red or green. Needles have yellow backlight and this
can not be changed.

This is the complete set of equipment you get in the package. It includes temp and pressure
gauges, temp sensor, pressure sensor, backlight bulbs with silicone caps to change the backlight
color, screws, connectors to be crimped on the sensors and installation manuals. All you need to
buy separately is the wire to connect the sensors and adaptors to install the sensors into the engine
block.

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I decided to install the gauges in the empty space in front of gear lever and below the A/C.
This way I am loosing some place in the car to hold my CDs for example and I am loosing the
cigarette lighter (I will find a new place for it later) and ashtray (no big loss, I never ever used it).

First I had to make a frame for the gauges. On the following pictures can you see my first
version that I made from thin plastic. I realized soon that it had been too thin and fragile and I had
to make a second one from thicker plastic. I would recommend 2,5 - 4 mm thick plastic, whatever
you can get.

After having the plastic plate in the right shape I drilled a hole and than cut out the circles
for the gauges by means of small mill.

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I grinded the edges to be smooth and to have the shape of nice circles big enough for the
gauges (53mm diameter in my case).

I decided to cover the frame with black leather. It is much nicer finish than simple paint,
looks elegant and in black color suits any interior trim. I put thin layer of plastic foam on the frame
under the leather to make it softer for the touch.

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