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<< Ok ok ok...I have blue guages now...and climate controls...but AHHH I CAN'T GET THE CRUISE CONTROL...ETC...PANEL OFF...and I have not clue how to take the AUTO window button out...can someone please help.....
BTW: That little screw in the change holder part under the cruise control button..etc...doesn't come out....that might be a problem huh??? >>
The screw in the coin box/compartment is the only one you need to remove, then you just have to pull that whole piece w/ the coin box & switches out, unplug the switches & pry them apart.
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I have power mirrors and heated mirrors.....how do I get that part apart...like the heated mirror button seams to be holding them all together....and to activate the heated mirrors...you push a the little button in...and well it stays in....so there must me a spring behind that button with a latch....and I can't seam to pull that whole part apart because of that one button.....And I can't figure out how to pry that button off....any suggestions how to get that whole thing apart???
i went to radio shack concerning the bulbs and they said they dont have em. said to chk autozone and stuff like that so gonna chk some part stores saturday after i shave my emblems and see whats up. Ive heard of people soddering (spelling) led's lights in but hell with that, if i cant find these bulbs ill just black them out cause the orange is way killin my color scheme here
That's what I did PearlHonda. Just slipped a piece of that blue sheet I used for the other dash lights and it dimmed them. Looks better than being orange at least.
i see where a piece of filter paper could fit on the cruise button, but im STILL havin probs gettin the moonroof button apart to look inside and how did u position the paper in the side mirror button? i pried it apart but i cant see how the filter would sit in there. I think im makin this more complicated then it is. ASIANPRIDE i havent tackled the door handles yet but i will REAL soon.
Autozone didnt have those bulbs, least not that i could see. I think im gonna have to ask Honda what the hell is the deal on this microscopic bulbs!! Like i said if i cant figure the buttons out ill black them out, hella better than havin orange killin my grand scheme of blue.
hahaha ok np, im bout to take it out and play with it and see whats up. Wish there was a book that told us how to take apart our car [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]
haha or you can prob just buy all new switches that are for the civic sedan, or one other alternative is guys look for a totalled car and get parts off of there
LED emits a specific wavelength of light. your plates ahve a certain voltage potential they reach, and exited atoms that go to an unexited state releace photons in a color. thats why you need to replace the diode. unless its a small lamp. a lamp you can put teh bulb covors on and it will work. otherwise, if you put teh cover on an LED, just like what was stated on page 1, it will just dim the light. this is because its not putting out all frequencies of light, which are getting blocked exept for the filter, the filter is filtering out that one frequency that the LED puts out.
and changing the LED MIGHT not work (who knows, try it!) it depends. for example, a red LED needs a potential of something around the neighborhood of 2 volts to light. but a blue LED needs 5 volts. without that, the LED simply will not even emit light. this means that if you have green or something, and try to put blue, your going to notice a significant dimming of the BLUE LED. but if you had sya, blue to begin with, and then put in red, the voltage is much higher and you would notice, that if you had the same LED's the red would be alot brighter.
something to experiemnt with! id really like to see the results of this. heck ill put teh LED in, if you wanna donate your dash to teh cause. i also have the red/black interior, and my lights match perfectly, so im not gonnna screw with what works in my own car.........
The switches are illuminated by bulbs. You will not ( i am almost 100% sure ) be able to find blue replacement bulbs of this type. The bubls however do have the "condom covers" over them. So you would then think to just get a replacement cover. but where are out of luck here, because the actauly white u see in the daytime, is a seperate peaice from the switch, that is somehow constructed so when light goes through it, it comes out oanrge. I, being the idiot that i am ripped that white peice off, so now theres just a hole in front of the light. It looks really ghetto in the day, but i put a peice of blue Gel paper behiind the hole, and at night it actually looks nice. Hope that helps some of you.
Edit: NVM im a retard. The light is oarnge somewhat, my filter is just really blue :-D.
ok, heres the deal, all you need to do is go to your honda dealer and have them order the bulbs from the 2003 civic hybrid. it has bulbs covered by BLUE condoms. plus, all of its interior lights are blue. i believe the cost is something like 3.25 each.
