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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 10:53 PM
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and for the door bezels iirc its one led per switch

Originally Posted by gooty4life71290
do you have pictures of the blackcat with the blue led kit?
no i dont have one, but i will get you one 2morrow

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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by C_A_D88
if you know what your doing you can do any buttome/switch that lights up lol

yeah well my dads an electrical engineer haha. but im not ready to do the HVAC cuz they say it doesnt show well. but im think im ready to take on the bezels!
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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 11:08 PM
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gitrdone lol, im gonna be attempting a full blue led conversion, onlything im worried about is doing the stock radio, as the leds are SUPER small lol
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 03:52 AM
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your gonna mess up the radio lights.I tryed soldering a led on the board of the radio and all the lights on it went out.It not as easy as you think it it
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 06:38 AM
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your gonna mess up the radio lights.I tryed soldering a led on the board of the radio and all the lights on it went out.It not as easy as you think it it
lol no faith

but your probably right, still gonna give it a try lol, and if i cant then i will have to get someone else to do it

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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 09:43 AM
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Im just saying cuz I tryed and it failed so I had to do some modifications to get it to work
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 07:21 PM
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by C_A_D88
and for the door bezels iirc its one led per switch



no i dont have one, but i will get you one 2morrow
any update for pictures of the led kit with the blackcat overlay?

on another note i ordered my leds for my hvac swap out
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 10:53 PM
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Do the ones at Radio Shack offer colored LEDs or do I *HAVE* to order from the website?
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 11:57 PM
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 12:01 AM
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u need 12 volt 3mm
and radioshack doesnt sell them

any other led you'll need a resistor
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Old Apr 27, 2011 | 02:50 PM
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How did you take the parts off the steering wheel to put the lights in?? I'm confused how to do that part cause on my 07 cobalt i have lights that light up both sides of my steering wheel and want to take them off to put LED's in?? How do i take them off??
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Old Apr 27, 2011 | 04:53 PM
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How did you take the parts off the steering wheel to put the lights in?? I'm confused how to do that part cause on my 07 cobalt i have lights that light up both sides of my steering wheel and want to take them off to put LED's in?? How do i take them off??
here ya go...search button

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/how-...g-wheel-84011/
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Old Apr 27, 2011 | 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Leebs59
How did you take the parts off the steering wheel to put the lights in?? I'm confused how to do that part cause on my 07 cobalt i have lights that light up both sides of my steering wheel and want to take them off to put LED's in?? How do i take them off??
Be prepared for the size of those LEDs lol
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Old Apr 27, 2011 | 08:26 PM
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Thx rootbeer now i have another problem.. i just took apart my dash cluster in my cobalt and wasn't sure how to get to the lights that are in that cluster because of the gauge pointers are in the way... how can i take all that off to get to those lights in the cluster??
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Old May 12, 2011 | 06:25 PM
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great
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Old May 12, 2011 | 09:05 PM
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great

Are we greating at some peoples knowledge or great at this thread hahaha.
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Old May 12, 2011 | 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Leebs59
Thx rootbeer now i have another problem.. i just took apart my dash cluster in my cobalt and wasn't sure how to get to the lights that are in that cluster because of the gauge pointers are in the way... how can i take all that off to get to those lights in the cluster??
Take the needles off
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Old May 13, 2011 | 12:17 AM
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i ended up getting the black cat custom led kit for the overlay i had and i did the led swap for the hvac and added 2 leds too





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Old May 13, 2011 | 01:07 AM
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got a question might be stupid but on the led-switch website i went to 12 volt but there are different size which one do i need and which is the blue the only blue i see is blue white please help i want to do this asap
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Old May 13, 2011 | 03:30 AM
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i use 3mm leds on mine.....i think
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Old May 13, 2011 | 04:08 PM
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i used 3mm and on led-switch.com they were called like cool blue or something like that
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Old May 13, 2011 | 06:39 PM
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ok thanks
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Old May 13, 2011 | 06:41 PM
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but the only ones i see are the blue white
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Old May 13, 2011 | 07:45 PM
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^thats the one
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