looks nice i was going to do my needles red but was not going to go through with hassle of make seperate cambers for red.

 

gotta be careful with the needles.you can really mess up your speedometer if you yank them out

 

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.

 

how do you re-zero the gauges?

 

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

 

sub'd cant wait til i have the time to do this.

 

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?

 

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?

 

anyone know where i can buy the red film that keeps the red things red? or what i can use to make it do it?

 

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?

 

I got nohing never heard or seen of this.

 

how do u do the radio and window control lights???

 

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.

 

Very well writen im glad more and more people are doing this!

 

i have a cheaper way of changing the color, but i dont know how to get the black face off the radio. do u have to take the 2 screws out that r in back of the cd slot? kuz i took the other 8 out n i felt like i was gonna snap it by pulling so i stopped.

 

i changed my radio lights.....

 

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

 

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)

 

ooohhhhh ok thanks! now my radio can match my gauges and AC controls! lol
still dont know how to get at the lights in the door pull handles

 

what resistor would you use?

 

anyone? bump

 

it depends on the leds your gonna use

 

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

 

Then how do u figure out what size resistor u need?

 

theres a site that caculates the voltage from the led and tells you what kind resistor you need