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Oct 19, 2004

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That look pimp!!

Oct 19, 2004

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looks very very nice... and congrats on job well done... i will sit down and do mine eventually i want to use the same color u used.. it looks awesome

Oct 19, 2004

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It looks amazing! Awesome job!

Oct 20, 2004

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wow, I never thought you ever going to finish

Sometimes i hope I took soo much time to do mine, but I'm happy with my results.

Congrads

Nov 2, 2004

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damn thats awesome was it hard to do

Nov 2, 2004

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Looks so freakin nice but I think its too bright

Nov 2, 2004

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He has them on a dimmer switch.

And yeah, they should of come stock like that.

Nov 14, 2004

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get that wired into some sotra pcb and i'd be up for installing it..
some sotra remove original/install replacement kinda thing...

lovin' it..

Nov 14, 2004

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my civic gets me pu**y.does yours???

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I just found out my 03 ex has nutn but leds in the cluster and they re all white.I was gonna do what u did but I already have leds.any idea on how I can change them to blue

Nov 14, 2004

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go buy some LED and desolder the existing ones.

Nov 14, 2004

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I don't think I can desolder them.looks to hard to do.but I want that blue glow.any suggestments

Jan 29, 2005

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wow! that is awesome

Feb 2, 2005

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could someone summurize what to do or do a step by step for us newbs that want to do this??

Mar 7, 2005

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how many LEDs did you use and what resistors..

is there a step by step of this?

for us LAZY or less electronic whiz, would you make it and sell it? if so how much? LEDs/insterts and labour and shipping

Mar 7, 2005

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the way el did it.. good luck. You want an ez way to do it.. something that wont take over 200 hours to do. Click on my Siggy !
eNJOY.

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click on your sig? i dont see any

Mar 7, 2005

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It's this thread just goto page 1. The link is below the pic in his sig.

Jul 8, 2005

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Making LED gauge inserts and selling them did cross my mind. However, I figured the idea wouldn't be all that practical because there are quite a few variants as far as clusters go. Acura EL, auto/5speed, civic, civic w/o a tach, etc. In order to do it right, I'd need to get a cluster first and then engineer it from there.

For mine, I took it apart, photocopied the actual gauge mylar and built up my inserts from there. Unfortunately there is no easy way around it if you want to do it the way I did mine. I also had to do some serious Dremel tool work to cut the existing clear plastic light guides.

I had, however, thought about selling my modified cluster. I bought a second cluster at the Toronto meet back in may, and I have that one in my car right now. But, the cluster I did it up with LEDs has about $70US worth of LEDs and probably over 100 hours of labour in it. I don't think I could get a decent offer on it -

Jun 15, 2009

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Re: LED Gauge Mods - Update

Pics are down for me...

Jun 16, 2009

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Re: LED Gauge Mods - Update

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Pics are down for me...

dude, the thread is 5 years old and the OP hasn't been on here in over 3 years. the pics are gone.

Jan 11, 2011

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Re: LED Gauge Mods - Update

bumpy! fixed all pics on first page

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Re: LED Gauge Mods - Update

Nice And Clean...Props

Jun 22, 2013

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Re: LED Gauge Mods - Update

Have not looked at my gauge cluster yet But I'v started replacing the switch lighting in my 01 The center of the dash is done but the led bulbs I got for the left side cruise and sun roof switch's are too tall they have the right base there just taller ordered from SUPER BRIGHT LED'S.Any sugestions?