Cdg2125

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Has anyone changed the color of the Bose hu? I havn't been able to find a thread or comments in the stickies so I thought I'd post this. I didn't know if it would be just like the other LED mods. Hoping it won't be too difficult...

Cdg2125

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Nobody has changed it before?

azn_s3nsation87

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i dun think its that easi or possible to to do it. But there was a thread how to change the auto climax control. I believe its not the same. I wanted to change my HU to blue led too but i doubt it.

black97

I have seen the article with photos about that sorry couldn't find guy changed his bulbs inside bose on red ones looks pretty sweeet like on BMW

Cdg2125

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That's what I'm looking for. I'm changing bulbs in my car for a red light interior. But I'm not going to change anything if I can't change the Bose too.

Fr33way™

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If you take the caps off they will be like orange-ish.

I beleive MDeezy came across this.

Cdg2125

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What caps? To the lights? Well if you get to the lights couldnt you just swap them there?

black97

Yes you can swap them but some people just remove caps on bulbs gotta love orange

Cdg2125

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Yeah orange would be cool. Can't remember who, but someone has all their interior lights orange. But, I want to do a red interior lol. Any idea where I can find a thread of taking the Bose apart and what kinda bulbs they are?

black97

will try to find link

bhmax16

You must be talking about me. Check out my cardomain I did the red ones in the Bose HU even though they look orangy in the pics http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/837045

nismomax98

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Its possible i have mine in white, use 3mm Leds whatever color u want. this should be in the how to's but its not that difficult if u did some led work on ur switches or something else. Another CT maxima 98 black too im getting old

Cdg2125

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I have to do LED's? Why do all the light mods have to be LED haha. I just want to replace with different bulbs. I don't know enough about LED's to be cutting and soldering ****. If anyone finds a link for a how-to that would be awesome!

bhmax16

For the Bose unit you have to solder new lights in whether you use LEDs or not. Only difference with the LEDs is you'll have to solder in resistors too and position them all in such ways so that they wont affect the operation of any of the controls. Can be a little tricky but nothing trial and error can't fix

Cdg2125

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damn, ok. Well what type of LED's should I use for the Bose? 3mm I'm guessing?

kbmaxima

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Igobuk did it and PROPS to him because it's damn sexy in the pics. here's the thread

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=378940

I wanna do this, but can't even get the screws off the brackets.

bhmax16

yes 3mm...5000mcd will be plenty bright

Cdg2125

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Awesome thanks for that thread! I hope I can pull all this stuff off. Looks like I'm gonna need a lot of LED's. How hard is it to change the auto climate lights? Same as Bose=direct soldering?