because the leds light up that clear plastic thing inside the hvac control.you want your leds to shine sideways not upwards.ill take a picture of it soon to show you

 

i keep my plastic in there as well mine does not light like that.....i would like to see pics

 

heres my setup,i put tape to cover the leds and make the light bounce back down to reflect into the clear plastic


Here is what it looks like without the tape,not so bright huh?(left botton side)

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...9/102_1594.jpg


and here is what it looks like with the tape. thats pretty much it.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...9/102_1593.jpg

hope this helped

 

Nice firecracker

 

haha thankx

 

sub'd i wanna do this!

 

I did this after I had done my gauges with this kit:

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/black-cat-custom-151/our-led-lighting-kit-stock-gauge-face-96714/

I used the same kit for the HVAC controls, plus that kit comes with a strip of red tape to keep the heat side of the dial red. This is how the redline portion of the tach stays nice and red with the gauge mod

 

I think someone needs to make that tape available by its lonesome

 

would there be anyway to keep the red on the heat/ac controls red??? it seems like with the blue leds the red side doesnt illuminate

 

Hi, i have a question

Do you use 5mm or 3mm leds??

 

how bout the radio i've had mine apart same with the switch's and the factory bulbs are small as ****

 

I used 5mm leds

 

Good how to!

 

Just throwing this out their, I also did this a few months ago but their is like a blueish tint film on everything so it makes it hard for any color light other than blue to be seen for example the red of the temp control has a red tini film on it which is why it wont show veary well in this pic if red leds were used that part would be super bright and everything would be dim

on another note nice wright up 09xfebalt

 

I used a 3.6 volt LED for the cruise control and have some left over.. will those work for the HVAC or will it short out the circuit?

 

ok so i've done this twice now. once with 3mm red LEDs and once with 5mm green LEDs. Both times I bought the 12V LEDs from led-switch (same place as the OP). Both times they have not been anywhere near that bright.

any ideas on why they aren't bright?

 

might be just how the green is. you may have to buy lower voltage greens and use resistors

 

it's how the red and green were lol.

Green on most LEDs is one of the brightest, if not the brightest colour.

I'll try with the oznium super bright LEDs and resistors and post up

 

ok so i checked the cluster again and realised that there is a blue film over the the areas that light up. you can see this if you take the black (or silver) face off and look at it from the back. i would imagine that this is why the blue lights up so well and the other colours do not.

im still waiting for my super bright LEDs from Oznium

i'll try to see about taking off that film as well

 

really? i didnt even notice i just stuk those dam leds in there

 

yea and i didnt even notice someone else said that earlier too. i need to read every post lmao

 

i fixed my clutser and hvac today make cluster red areas back to red and changed the kilometers to green and tach area dots and line to green. hvac red lights up red but currently no pics


more over exposed one to show actual colors but not brightness

 

it is pretty cool but I still prefer stock lights.

 

installed pics

 

check my out,the camera makes it blinding bright but its not so bright http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...9/102_1867.jpg