Interior: How to change cluster, HVAC control, window and door lock to LED
08-30-2010, 07:12 AM
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im not sure how every one else is doing theres but i rezero all my gauges when im finished takes about 5 minutes and then you can never be off.
08-30-2010, 05:07 PM
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You need to hook up two grounds and a power wire to cluster when removed from vehicle. Strongly only recomend this to people good with wiring and that have the proper terminals to hook to cluster
08-31-2010, 07:58 PM
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FYI, I tried to remove the blue "film and have had no luck. I believe it is the colour of the plastic and not a covering. I could be wrong though.
Has anyone done this with LEDs other than blue?
Has anyone done this with LEDs other than blue?
09-01-2010, 01:11 AM
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ok so I got the Super Bright LEDs from Oznium and they worked great.
I bought green and even with the blue film it still shows up green. They are not 12V so I needed to solder resistors on them and that was a little cramped to have them fit but they got in there okay.
I used a red 12V LED for the red on section of the temp controls and it looks good.
I will post pictures tomorrow but I have a problem with the unit now.
When my car is off, the yellow lights for the AC button and the air re-circling button stay lit but when I turn the car on, the yellow lights go off and when I hit the buttons for AC, rear defrost, and air re-circling the lights do not come on.
Any ideas?
I bought green and even with the blue film it still shows up green. They are not 12V so I needed to solder resistors on them and that was a little cramped to have them fit but they got in there okay.
I used a red 12V LED for the red on section of the temp controls and it looks good.
I will post pictures tomorrow but I have a problem with the unit now.
When my car is off, the yellow lights for the AC button and the air re-circling button stay lit but when I turn the car on, the yellow lights go off and when I hit the buttons for AC, rear defrost, and air re-circling the lights do not come on.
Any ideas?
11-05-2010, 02:19 PM
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Funny thing, i changed the bulbs out with the leds and when the car is off and i turn the lights on the leds light up bright as hell, but when i turn the car on they dim allot. I have been soldering and do board level motherboard repair so i know i soldered them in all correctly. Any suggestions?
11-05-2010, 03:06 PM
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Funny thing, i changed the bulbs out with the leds and when the car is off and i turn the lights on the leds light up bright as hell, but when i turn the car on they dim allot. I have been soldering and do board level motherboard repair so i know i soldered them in all correctly. Any suggestions?
11-15-2010, 12:44 PM
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I wouldnt mess with the radio lights, just get some stained glass paint and spray the backside of the face, its really easy to screw something up when you change those. The window control lights arent hard to do but you will need soldering skills to do it.
A 5mm can be used on the driver side window control and a 3mm can be used on the rest of them. Some of the lights are covered by the part that plugs into the control so you will have to de-solder that piece to even get at the light contacts, before you go taking that piece off you need to figure out which is + and which is - . You can get 12v leds from led-switch.com.
A 5mm can be used on the driver side window control and a 3mm can be used on the rest of them. Some of the lights are covered by the part that plugs into the control so you will have to de-solder that piece to even get at the light contacts, before you go taking that piece off you need to figure out which is + and which is - . You can get 12v leds from led-switch.com.
11-15-2010, 12:56 PM
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I wouldnt mess with the radio lights, just get some stained glass paint and spray the backside of the face, its really easy to screw something up when you change those. The window control lights arent hard to do but you will need soldering skills to do it.
A 5mm can be used on the driver side window control and a 3mm can be used on the rest of them. Some of the lights are covered by the part that plugs into the control so you will have to de-solder that piece to even get at the light contacts, before you go taking that piece off you need to figure out which is + and which is - . You can get 12v leds from led-switch.com.
A 5mm can be used on the driver side window control and a 3mm can be used on the rest of them. Some of the lights are covered by the part that plugs into the control so you will have to de-solder that piece to even get at the light contacts, before you go taking that piece off you need to figure out which is + and which is - . You can get 12v leds from led-switch.com.
11-15-2010, 04:56 PM
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I wouldnt mess with the radio lights, just get some stained glass paint and spray the backside of the face, its really easy to screw something up when you change those. The window control lights arent hard to do but you will need soldering skills to do it.
A 5mm can be used on the driver side window control and a 3mm can be used on the rest of them. Some of the lights are covered by the part that plugs into the control so you will have to de-solder that piece to even get at the light contacts, before you go taking that piece off you need to figure out which is + and which is - . You can get 12v leds from led-switch.com.
A 5mm can be used on the driver side window control and a 3mm can be used on the rest of them. Some of the lights are covered by the part that plugs into the control so you will have to de-solder that piece to even get at the light contacts, before you go taking that piece off you need to figure out which is + and which is - . You can get 12v leds from led-switch.com.
11-15-2010, 04:59 PM
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How? i just need to know how to get the thing ALL the way apart, then im good from there. ive gotten to the part where u get to the back of the circutboard and taken out the 8 numbered screws
11-15-2010, 05:06 PM
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i didnt replace the stock leds in the radio i just took them out and put a series of leds together in a row and place in the radio,power them up to a power source and bam(you pull the volume and power knobs on the radio to full take apart the radio) 
12-01-2010, 05:25 PM
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man id love to have my cluster/radio/hvac controls all that light up blue since my gauges and my meth screen is all blue..but id prolly screw it up so ill jus leave it alone