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Old Dec 12, 2003
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DIY: Making Dash lights brighter

Some of you may have done a dash light swap/conversion, or put on some condoms to change the color of your lights. I did a blue LED conversion for all the temp control stuff and the lights turned out to be too dim. So I made a DIY of how to make them brighter. This is really easy, it just requires removing some light shields. AFter a while i'll be doing this same thing for the Cruise Control, Sunroof, and power mirror buttons, and maybe even eventually for the lights next to the shifter in an automatic. I guess the mods can decide if this is good enough to make it sticky.

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looks good, there are a lot of DIYs out there... I did this mod a long time ago... Its really easy, the only part that a lot of people get confused on is the LED part. Which LED and resistor to get, and then how to put it all together correctly within the dash.

Make a lil LED diy, like how you soddered everythin together (if thats what u did)
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actually, that can be found at www.99accord.com the guy did great.
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http://www.99accord.com/OrderInfo/01...ontrolInfo.asp


http://www.99accord.com/HowToGuides/...shLEDHowTo.asp
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i personally would get the LEDs from radio shack..
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Nice DIY. Same thing I did for my dash lights, although I didn't use LEDs. Just left the amber backlight.
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The moonroof mirror area will have tiny bulb condoms on them that you will need to remove to make it brighter.
 
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