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Out of curiosity.. Did you do the same thing with the air conditioning controls?
How did you go about doing that?
I used the kits from ledautomotive.com for everything else! I could have ordered everything seperate but its hard to get anything in that small of a quantity at a good price. just go there for kits for every other interior light
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welcome. all you do is order the kit, get out the soldering iron and the parts from the car. 20 mins later or so and your interior is no longer backlitlit green
So I take it there is no DIY for the heater controls on changing the colors of the lights as you can see I am new here and the g/f wants all to match the dash lights as I am going to try that swap.
if you want progress pics you can steal some from my ride pics. If there is any that you want and its not in there, pm or email me and ill send you some more. The way you did it was quick and simple, but really uneven lighting. Good work either way.
questions for you, on the trip/mileage gauge how did you get yours so bright?
i did this DIY with the blacl light UV and it looks awesome, cept my mileage gauge is really dim[i used blue for it].
i dont remember there being any of that filter on there, mabey my bulb is bad?
also just a few things i ran into are those damn needles dont come out so easily, i had to use needle nose and i thought i was about to break the freakin things then they finally popped out! lol
also i learned that there is a certain way to insert the LED bulbs, there no rym or reason to it but there must be a positive and negative cause i had to go over all mine cause some were lit and some not so i had to flip them around till they came on.
other than that it was a piece of pie...or is it cake..? well it was easy, lol
thank you very much for this DIY i love my new gauges.
questions for you, on the trip/mileage gauge how did you get yours so bright?
i did this DIY with the blacl light UV and it looks awesome, cept my mileage gauge is really dim[i used blue for it].
i dont remember there being any of that filter on there, mabey my bulb is bad?
also just a few things i ran into are those damn needles dont come out so easily, i had to use needle nose and i thought i was about to break the freakin things then they finally popped out! lol
also i learned that there is a certain way to insert the LED bulbs, there no rym or reason to it but there must be a positive and negative cause i had to go over all mine cause some were lit and some not so i had to flip them around till they came on.
other than that it was a piece of pie...or is it cake..? well it was easy, lol
thank you very much for this DIY i love my new gauges.
there is a filter over the gas gauge part, and the temp gauge too. you gotta get that off. but check the bulb in that spot first.
about the LED being only one way:
LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. A diode is a device which allows current to pass through only one direction. So a light emitting diode, being a diode, will only work when current is passed through one way. When its backwards nothing happens
lmao, hahaha!
bi polar...
aight then, the LED for the brights must be in backwards.
still about the odometer gauge though, its so dim...mabey its just the bulb cause i am pretty sure there was no filter over it.
thanks
