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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/_Car-...m230253238553&

Can anyone shed some light on this? I can solder and whatnot but I don't know whats behind that thing to know that what the kit comes with will be enough/ will make it work. Thanks for any help!




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There's a D.I.Y. writeup on this forum explaining how to do it. Basically all you need to do is make sure you have the correct LED and resistors for our boards.....which it looks like he's already picked out for you and included with the kit. Then you simply cut off your red LED and solder on the new blue ones in their places, testing it between each addition to make sure the LED is not on backwards. Once they're all on, reinstall.

 
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Sweet, thanks for the help Dex!




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Always here to help! And today's slow at work so I'm posting every 2 minutes.

 
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****, I'm in a giving mood....
https://www.civicforums.com/forums/1...sh-lights.html

I even bought the homeless guy on the corner a $12 breakfast this morning.

 
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Ha... +1 for helping the homeless, lol. Anyway, do you think I could just use butt connectors instead of soldering. I have a solder gun bit its mad old.





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No idea what a butt connector is.

 
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You put one wire into one side and the other wire into the other side then crimp the metal insert in the middle to connect the two.




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haha, that's ghetto!
Could you? Yes. You'd still have to solder a piece of wire to the LED though because they just come with 2 pins sticking out of them and you solder the pins to the board. So in order to get something into a butt connector, you'd have to extend the metal pin by soldering a wire to it. Plus you'd have no way to aim it, if you do it that way the LED could bang around and be facing any way under the cluster. If the pins are soldered to the board, it's always facing out all the time.

Soldering irons are like $20 at Home Depot, I picked up one last year.

 
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I'm confused... Ah, could you find a pic of what your talking about? I understand the pins on the back of the LED but what do I solder that to?




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The post and the anvil are what you're going to need to solder to the board. So if you can get that into a butt connector, go for it. It'll be a shitty install though and you'll be unhappy with the lighting afterwards. It'll be much easier to get those into a butt connector if you extend the post and anvil by adding a piece of wire to each one, that way they'll be longer and farther apart. But you're better off just soldering these pieces to the board, irons are really cheap now. You can get one that uses butane but if you're close enough to an outlet, I'd use one that plugs in. My butane one clogged up after like 1 month.
Actually you're not too far from me, if you want to roll up to New York I can do it for you.

 
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Ha, thats quite a roll. When you refer to the board you mean? (Sorry I have yet to shank the whole thing apart. I just know what to expect/do when I do buy the stuff). Will I yank the old LEDs/ lights off and solder on the knew ones?
Thanks!




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Did you follow the link I gave you? You take the old LED off of this and solder your new ones in.

 
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Ha, did you follow the link I gave you? Is there boards for these too?






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Ha, touche my good man, touche! I just searched for 10 minutes to find it for you. There's a few that did it but the links to the D.I.Y. they provided are broken so it didn't help. Some other douchebag did it but didn't post pictures so I didn't even read it. So I guess after all this time the answer is no, I don't know how to do it. You'll just have to pull off the dash piece, pull out the L.E.D, snip them off the circuit board and solder on new ones with the correct polarity. It really is pretty straight forward.

 
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Good God. I don't think this problem will ever end for me. I've been fighting this for quite some time trying to find a good solution. Let me assure you that hacking up the plexiglas diffuser will not work, nor will replacing it with a breadboard with LEDs mounted on it in an parallel array.

The main problem with getting an even light output is the incandescent bulbs in there now are omnidirectional, but LEDs have a relatively narrow angle (60 degrees or so) that they put out light.

Is there anywhere that might sell blue incandescent bulbs about the size of the existing ones? I don't give a damn about power consumption on this level.