led's behind gauges
 

does anyone have pics of led's behind the gauges? there has been a lot of talk about them, i just wanted to see what it looked like.

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nice. well now i know what im replacing my sh1tty fading blue bulbs with... :D

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ngthing..what type of LED is that (single diode or mutiple on one tip) and also what brand and where did you get it. Thanks.

http://shadysport.homestead.com/files/dashb.jpg :D

DanNY, will you ever reveal your secret with your gauges? I really want mine like that. :spike:

Hey I got the same exact brightness as Ngthing, Get Quad Head LED lights, I got then off of E-bay and its 4 heads as you can tell on 1 bulb, its really bight and it gives off a rich blue color, The nicest part is that the Needles look like the indiglo type, Hope that helps

dans are cooler.

And thats good for Dan....:D

hey, all i got to say is don't get the LED's that look like normal bulbs. where the tip is domed. i go those and they look cool but they shine straight, i can't see the needles at night. i bought them off ebay, and they said they were Japan LED's. i'd either get the ones with 4 lights in one, or the autodynamic ones where they dish inwards.

I have a pair of LED's that dish inwards, but I was afraid to use them in the gauges because I thought they would shine straight, but now Im gonna rip apart my dash tonight and change them :D

Where do I get these LED's??

ebay

what kind of lights?
 

What type of bulbs again? I have no idea what kind to start looking for, but I like iT!!!! What's the size...or is there no difference in sizes? THanks.

H

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194s/168s, basically the same thing.

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Which are brighter?? I heard that the higher the number, the brighter the bulb. I'm using 194 SuperWhites.

mine :)
http://images.cardomain.com/installs...88_26_full.jpg

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ictually i think the 168s are brighter, i dont know for sure though.

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true. I think its something like 5 watts (168) compared to 3.8 (194) or something.

hey, if u don't trust ebay or dopn't feel like going through the hassel of waiting for an auction to end, go to www.autodynamic.com . they have 194 leds there.

spoedometer needle
 

Will replacing the lights behind the guages, will the needle be bright again?

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look at the pics...

Let me guess.....
 

You can only do that with SE gauges, right? I took my GXE gauges apart to see if I could mod them somehow, but I don't think I can.

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gxe gauges run the same bulbs as se gauges. i would think that the setup is exactly the same on both.

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my car is gxe and i have red led and red 194 behind my gauges. the setup for the gauge lights is the same as the se tryna figure out how to make the faces white any ideas?

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buy white gauges ;)

The problem with GXE guages is that not only is the bulb covered in a green condom(can be removed) the actual gauage face backside is green. So you can put a red, blue, white bulb in there and they still have to pass though a green filter.

DanNY for the love of god....amigo to amigo....what setup are you running? I've got 89-91se guages in now and my 93 yellowly white bulbs are killing me. Are yours 194 or 168 Leds. A link or exact product would be much apreciated.

Thanks,
Mike S.

arent 194 led's the same as 168's? cuz i see them on ebay as "194/168 led's".

GXE gauges
 

They can't be white b/c of that green filter on there, so, what colors can you mix green with to make another color that would look cool on my dash.
Also, if I buy the SE gauges from a junk yard, do you guys just replace the whole insterment pannel and all or do you just replace the paper/plastic gauge readout?

same size, different wattage

...are you sure? im talking about led's, not regular bulbs.

they are still the same. (but the wattage thing applies to the bulbs, I don't know about the led's) but people on ebay put both so that if you search for either 194 or 168, you'll find their auctions. you know, like how they put "XENON HID HEADLIGHTS NISSAN HONDA ACURA" whatever.

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You can always go with the indoglo gague faces.White in the day, indiglo at night. There's almost always a set of 2 color gague faces on eBay for both the SE and the GXE. they usually go for about 70 buck i think.

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we had this discussion before. and even if i wanted them, they dont make indiglos for my car anyways (90 se). trust me, ive looked.

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oh yeah, just to add- whats the point of spending $70+ when you can spend $20 max and make your gauges look better than indiglos...

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Amen to that

how many bulbs are behind the guage faces? i want to know how many to order.

4
 

There are 4. Where are you ordering them from?

i was thinking of getting them fromhere

Do those 10 LED's really provide a nice even illumination like DanNY's car or are they more like a beam?

Mike S.

buy the leds with 4 lieds in one 194 bulb i have the focuesin ward single lef and not greet for gauges it not as bright 45-65 miles per hour on th e gauges