as promised

DOOR LED's


DOOR LED's


Speedo
The pic is showing fades of blue. Behind the wheel, it looks a LOT better


Climate control




all shots using slow shutter w/ no flash on a nikon d70 slr. best way to capture low light..

 

the step lamps are using 4 3mm led's.
the climate control has i believe 3 led's. their is a slight hotspot on the 3 setting as ive seen w/ all led climate control mods. i never did the a/c led. thats why its dimmer.

i also wired my dome light w/ a set of 10 led's. those are bright.. *no pics*

 

very clean me like

 

looks very nice, how hard would you say the project is for somebody who doesn't have experience but has a solder?

 

looks good.
i wish i had some extra time to do leds in my car

 

i've done everything he's done. very easy, just need to know how to remove the trim pieces and such and patience

 

this is not a job that you can complete easily.
1st, the parts u are dealing w/ are small
2nd u need to angle the bulbs into small angles.
3rd, a LOT of trial and error to make sure u have no hotspots.


so now, let me get w/ the basics. sand all your led's. this will reduce *hopefully eliminate* any hotspots.
2nd, make sure u dont cross any of the led leads. especially when working w/ 3 mm led's. use shrink tubing on all the led leads.
also, make sure u use resistors for everything. when i wire a single led, i use 470 ohm led's. when i wire 3 in series, i use 150 ohms.

the doors were quite easy. maybe 2 hours total. the climate control was a bit harder. maybe 3 hours.

the instrument cluster was definitely the hardest. many many hours.

 

that sucks, becuse the instrument cluster is what i mostly wanted to do...i guess i'll do some reading on it and try it, thanks!

 

No LED in the temp control slider?

 

man that looks sweet, me like a lot

 

nice and clean man, i like your gauges

 

that looks awesome, I'm not adventurous enough to mess with my needle... lol, don't know that much about electronics...

 

red x's for me

 

do you know where I could buy the same LED's you used?

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/100X-UltraBright...QQcmdZViewItem

PLENTY OF EM on FLEA-BAY

 

I was about to mention the same thing. It is really easy as the orginial one is already an LED so it's pretty much a direct desoider/resoider. 3mm led fits perfectly in there.

Also the climiate control lights (the little ones that shows you which one you selected) is pretty easy to do as well.

By the way, why does your guages shows "fades" of blue as you stated. I put some hyper white bulbs behind mine and 2 of the guages light up a tint of blue as well. I'm guessing there's no way around it?

 

very nice. Do you plan on changing the color of your clock?

 

yeah, just didnt think about the a/c bulb when i did it. *stupid me*
the shades of blue are due to camera being at a low shutter, but was not low enough. the lower it is, the more white it captures. in reality it is a hint of blue all around. i rather have it all white. but the se stock gauges have a blue film on the back that i cant remove.

 

You're off to a good start, young Jedi.

 

looks good.

 

I am not brave enough to take out my clock and gauge cluster or I would do it. I would like to install something brighter in my clock so I can see it when the sun is really bright. With my windows tinted, its a little better but still, when I open my sun roof I can't tell what time it is.

 

What would happen if i just put Blue LED 194 bulbs in my gauge cluster? how would it look?

 

good start padawan. slider is easy, u don't even have to remove the whole unit again, just pull off the slider and you shoudl see a thin green LED, yank that one out and take a 3 mm led and use a file to shave down the sides so the fit and cut the leads so they're the same length as the green one. Just insert back in and if it doesn't work, flip it around and it should work.

 

wow that looks nice. I wanted to do something with LED like that but didn't have the time to do it.

 

Damn, looks good. I like the way the instrument panel looks...

 

Looks really good how you able to get rid of hot spots?

 

pure hotness

 

believe me, its not very easy.. a lot of trial and error. but generally, u want to avoid direct led lite to the numbers on the dial, and angle it a bit off center. and a must is u have to sand the led..

 

Anyone wanna make an LED 99.5 Instrument panel for me? :-P

 

sandpaper is your friend...

 

I Just completed mine sorry no pics. i used blue leds for the fuel and temp gauges, and white for tach and speedometer. This mod is very tuff and time comsuming on top of that i messed up my speedometer i guess being to ruff with it. Now i need a new speedometer, very tuff to set the led in position with the analog speedometer there is to much in the way to set it perfectly my tach is way brighter cause i was able to get the led right in the middle of the gauge.Anyone attepting this mod, get ready to spend a lot of time on it.

 

Looks good, I really need to get off my **** and put my LEDs to use...