My brother changed his factory dash bulbs to Blue LEDS for all his gauges in his srt4 and it looks sick!!! It so much more vivid! Has anyone tried this in their Cobalts yet? Pics?

 

take pics of his setup, post them. I'd love to see them.

 

I did this in my cougar. Took me FOREVER to do. Approx 1 week.

 

nice ... not one for contrast though are yah I woulda mixed in some light blue to counter the red

are you still able to control the intensity of the lights?

 

yes you can change the intensity, I will take some pics as soon as i get a chance!

 

Wow. Holy Space Ship
I looked under "how to's" but didn't see anything for LED's...
Is this difficult to do? Or just time consuming?
I'd like to know how you did it if you have the time!

 

It pretty much was easy. The window switches and lock switches were already LEDs so I only had to replace it with a red led. Other parts with actual bulbs I used a 12v resistor with the LED.

Well the Speedometer, Tach, and HVAC controls were another story.

There were white bulbs behind them which ment the actual face on them were tinted green. I had to dismantle each part and I mixed water with nail polish remover and cotton swabbed some of the green away. Note: this was harder then it sounds. For the LCD screens for my trip meter etc... there was yet again a white bulb and the lcd had a green film. I had to dismantle each lcd and pull the green gel cover off. then I put in an LED w/ a resistor and backed the LCD with a white cut out of paper.

I have no idea how this is going to work on the cobalt but I eventually will attempt this.


Also when I tried to adjust the brightness using my stock adjuster, it would BARELY dim the lights.

 

this may sound really dumb..but what type of leds u use for that? r they car specific or just general? and yeah that sounds like it would be a bitch to do all that..however it looks good and now that ive seen it im considering putting green in my black cobalt

 

i was gonna do this is my celica but the cobalt dash i dont mind i thinks its nice as it is

 

Srt4's are the same way! Doesn't make a difference! He had clear bulbs back there as well. The lines are green tinted too like ours. When he changed them out to the high intensity blue LEDS, it was blue, no greenish tint at all! I will post pics as soon as i see him. They are a reversed LED light direct replacement 194 bulb. They also have smaller LEDS if thats what we have. Why waste your time with resistors! theyre around $8 a piece where my brother got em. totally worth it!

 

or you could just get MSD's Lazer Gauges!

http://www.msdignition.com/2006/06-1.htm

 

Well when I tried to shine a red LED through it the light didn't shine through.

As for the $8 each bulb, it only cost me 5 dollars to do the entire interior on my old cougar.

 

here are the pics in my gallery. It' hard to see the true intenstity in the photo. https://www.cobaltss.net/gallery/bro...=3&userid=2652

 

Quite the job! Thanks for the info!

 

Very nice. I like the blue. If I had blue inserts I would have done the same.

 

whoa dude thats a cool little product and accurate within 2rpms at 10000!!! SICK

 

I did the same thing on my accord. Looked really cool...took about a day to do it. I had to solder tiny surface mount resistors the size of a pen tip onto the leds. There is no dimming an led light do to the flow of the current. Once I have the time and aquire the necessary tools again I will be changing all my lights in the cobalt. Unless you have the electrical knowledge of restisance you should not attempt to do this or you leds will fail...big headache. Lower ohm resistors will be brighter but not last as long.

 

i'm new here i joined to find info on this topic my girlfriend has a cobalt and she wants yellow lights in her cluster all i need to know is how many and what size i changed the ones in my full size chevy it wasnt hard at all i just took the 5 bulbs out and put the led replacment ones in i got them from here, they have resistors built in. http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b....29175&next=50

 

get biohazard in here he has some stuff done to his

 

looks nice, a how to on this would be great... (I wouldn't even know how to get to the bulbs :S)

 

my gauges are next.... green bitches! if someone can tell me a how to on how to get the gauges out and sht ill do it tomorrow... 4th of july, im off work so hurry somone... hell ill start tonight and make a how to on color changin.... check out my gallery for my Center dash and center councel mods

 

looks like a pontiac interior with all that red