do you find it uncomfortable at night? looks crazy bright

 

I never said you need them. I said that I tried it with them first and it didnt hurt so I didnt stop using them.

No they are not too bright i put them on max brightness for the pictures. I use the room dimmer to lower them at night. They almost turn off so they are always adjustable to your preferance.

 

Ill post pictures later tonight when its dark but yes i did do the rear window switches. I droped some solder here and there and just sucked it up with the gun somehow, you could also try cutting with small wire cutters or chip it off. The secon set of pictures up above is actually from the rear switches here r some more

 

looks good, pics tell a 1000 words

 

idk, i guess my 98 started the trend. In the rear window switch, nissan put in a flat led looking something like this: http://en.goodlamp.com/upload/flatpiranha.jpg
they did this because some type of black chip is on the other side, which would cause a problem if a regular led was placed in there.

this, in turn, is pretty annoying. it is soldered at 4 different points which are within 2 mm of each other...a brain surgeon would have trouble doing it.

 

bright and looking good,nice job

 

I noticed that your auto climate control was not lit....

Do you happen to have a brief writeup for the CD player?

 

I just swapped mine to red.. what I did for the back two was remove the board, go out to the car, and with the small green square LED lit up, I tried my red LED on the different leads connected to the green LED until I found the combination that lit up my red LED. I then soldered it (with my resister, of course -- though I learned it might not be necessary on window switches) and blacked out the green LED with a permanent marker. For some reason, though, after doing this neither of the back ones light up.. made sense to me at the time

Oh well, I don't really care about the back ones lighting up anyways. I never ride back there lol

 

wariow i was just doing some reading and saw that you were sourcing your LEDs from a guy on ebay. Have you tried http://www.besthongkong.com ?? I order all my LEDs from them, last time i ordered i paid $12 canadian for 100 blue LEDs including shipping. You get better deals with the more LEDs you buy and you can also select what range of illumination you want ( ie 10 degrees, 20 degrees etc). The guy you buy from may even get them from the same source as these guys

 

must be bright as hell in there at night. Looks good though

 

I did 5mm blue leds for my auto climate control. It is way too dim. I sanded them down as well. Should I just go with leds that are higher rated mcd? I think mine are 3600 or so.





The two images are both taken by my cell phone under different light conditions, thats why they look so different.

 

if you dont sand them they will shine through brighter and you can use your interior dimmer to adjust how bright you want it!!! Theonlyplace I would say to sand is the guages and the indicator light for the rear defoger b/c it doesnt hsve a stock defuser/shield and shines rightin you face ...

 

How did you do the door lights? I tried putting in one LED but it blew. Did you buy the ones on ebay? I like the blue. I have light blue/white in my window switches.

 

I used ~15000mcd white 5mm leds.
I made the dome of each led flat by sanding, trying to reduce the hot spots, which helped, in a way, for leds not to be too bright.

 

Cool man i will try it out soon

 

sig is old. Haven't updated for over a year now but if besthongkong.com is good, i'll try them out

 

huh? I used the auto climate blue led mod in the interior sticky

http://www.z3d.com/maxima/blueclimate.html

It taps into the 12V. There is another way to do it?

 

My auto climat control doesnt work after 2 days of trying to fix it. I figured you were talking to me and the leds that do work in my car ie: window switches, hazd., rear defog (the photos at the begining of the thread) are dimmable. Sorry

 

Some more new pics I dont like the diffused look although i did it on the map light and key ring led's (one's NA).
Finished to date:
~FR door
~FL door
~RR door
~RL door
~Courtesy lights
~hazd
~Rear defog
~Ash tray
~Glove box
~key light
~Map light
~Cluster
~Low fuel indicat

DAYTIME


NIGHTTIME

 

Dblock, How did u manage to do the key light. Ive been lookin, but dont see any stickies for that

 

You have to disconnect the housing around the steering column to get access to the wires. Pop off the pice that covers the ignition and key lock with your fingernails, use some muscals!! Unscrew the 6 screws holding the part together from underneath, the first pix shows only 4 screws there are 2 more closer to the engen. You might have to remove the bottom dash kick plate to access the front most screws. (look at the second pics). The white cap over the light must be removed, fliped up first, then the clear and white housing slide off the key igition . You have to custom the led and resistor to fit in the white housing but you have some room to play. Make sure that when you close the cap on the white pice it doesnt hit the led. I ended up not using this pice anyway for no reason at all, no extra light will shine through from not using this pice. I have another led on the other side of the clear ring to eaven out the glow but the solder broke and its no longer connected. I need to just get to it, its fairly easy to do as well

THESE 4 SCREWS


POSSIBLY REMOVE THIS KICK PLATE UNDERNEATH THE STEERING COLUMN



REMOVE THE WHITE CAP OVER THE STOCK BULB



SLIDE THE PICES OFF AND UNTANGLE THE WIRE HARNES

 

in a 95-96 cluster the 194 bulb should just be plug and play. I changed the 194 bulbs in mine to just blue coated halogen bulbs from the stock ones and it was a direct fit. I plan on changing everything over to led very shortly though

 

thanks alot Dblock great pics

 

i used an unsanded inverted LED bulb off ebay that fits in there...#74 or something (bear with me, I am at Annapolis and havent worked on my car since summer 2006 ). I 'lined up' the hollowpoint of the LED with the squarish end of the plastic injection that is the ring with tape.

there isnt really much of a hot spot since the ring has a kind of beveled surface to it.


here is the regular naked bulb with blue sharpie on it...terrible


much better


the same type of LEDs produced some hotspotting in the instruments, however but its not as bad as my camera makes it look. hope this helps



just my $.02

 

Wow, yeah thats alot sure does help

 

I mean thanks alot sure does help, perfect timeing too, i just finished installin inverted leds in my cluster and have left overs, so ima give it a try tommrow