Well today I finally decided to do it since I had off from work and was finished with school early. Got the LEDs off ebay, I love them, I still have to go back and fix the lock/unlock switch LED cause it wont light up and the passnger front side switch is dkmmer than the rest so I have to change it. Here are the results, sorry for bad quality =P

Rear Switch

Front Driver Pic 1

 

looks good! i want to do that but haven't gotten around to buying the neccessary stuff. how long did it take you?

 

I like it.....Looks great!!!

 

took me a good 2 hours more or less, wasnt that bad...

 

Nice work.

 

nice, im doing that to my car in the next few weeks, i gotta get around to buying the stuff

 

hmm, i too have the same problem, my lock/unlock button, driver side window switch and the lock windows button dont light up for some reason, but the rest do light up. any idea on what might be wrong

 

looks good
are they really that bright in person?

 

Is that hard to do? Might try if it is cause I'm not that good with modding things but that looks so great! What do I need?

 

Its kind of hard if you're not to handy with electrical stuff. Soldering and unsoldering without touching contacts, especially on the drivers switch can be real tricky. The problem with my lock/unlock button was this: the new LEDs are way bigger than the old LEDs, I have a pic but it isnt uploaded yet. This problem would only occur on the drivers switch because the holes for the LEDs are too small, so the new LED would not fit fully, causing too much pressure and maybe even break, which is the situation in my case. And yes, it is brighter in person, I like it, it matches my gauges

 

if you do not want to drill new holes into the holes that the old LED's go into , get 3MM LED's the one's that are on redmax99l's website were 5mm. I made mine white and they look VERY classy and uppperclass stock. DIdn't go wtih blue because they would look kinda ricey, but that's my opnion. I'm planning to do the gauges next with white 194's. If you guys have any questions on any model from 95-99. Send me a IM.

 

Good point, I love the color the blue gives off, but I'm afraid of the ricey feeling, do you happen to have a pic of the white LEDs? I'm even considering taking out the blue 194 LEDs in the door light =P

 

what were the bulb sizes that you used?

 

here's some pics of white LED's. They look good to the already white lights in the car.



I used 5MM led's, 3mm's would be easier so you don't have to expand the hole on the switches.

If you do blue, I would suggest getting the whole car blue like arrafio's.

 

white looks nice, i used 5 mm..yes i think if i do stay with blue, which is nice..i would do the whole car

 

I'm probably gonna change thew hite bulbs to a brighter white to make the car look more luxurious and like the car came with the high quality lights.

 

keep me updated with the new pics if you change the LEDs and make it brighter, i was in an audi A4 the other day and they have a nice red/white combo with teh switches/dash/gauges.. =P

 

sure, if i have the time to take pics.

 

looks nice man. so many people are doing the LED convertion...maybe i should find sometime and jump on that too. it'll match my ricy interior really well...

 

Are the 3mm LED's not as bright as 5mm's? and how do you fit the 5mm in the lock/unlock button?

 

no those are the size of the LED bulb, for brightness u would go by mcd, the bigger the better, I think mine were 7000mcd

 

Dremel =)

D1N, you have 7000mcd LED's? Man, I have 5000mcd and I think they might be too bright.

 

those blue led's definitely look phat. im gonna probably put white ones in my switches whenever i get time. its too damn cold here in wisconsin though to be working on my car.

 

just do what I did, take out the switch panels and do it in your house

 

is there a site in the faq's that tell you how to do this?

 

i think it's one of the last few additions on the "How To's" thread

 

Yeah I believe so.