^^No earthly idea. I know Neo-3 fits the 96 manual controls but can say with NO certainty if it will fit 99

 

hmm...well, that's interesting. May have to do a bit more research then and dis-assembly to verify. Hmm...

any ideas on radio LEDs for the stock NON-bose?

 

not interior but superbright's LPCxW2 brackets...

 

^^looks good but that should be in the exterior thread...not the interior

 

Ok I'm stuck and need help liek a n00b.

I got the shifter trim put, but how to I access the T10 connector for the illumination for it?

Her's where I am:

 

I see no screws holding this in...only two tab things on the right side but I pulled them up and nothing happens...

 

Feel underneath and you'll find the bulb base with the 2 wires leading into it. Twist and pull.

 

GOT IT!!

Thanks...I thought I had to take the other part out...

 

Post a pic!!

 

the bulb is located under the "N". The connector is oriented East--West. Twisting the connector counter-clockwise to North--South will let it release. I just used one of the T-10 bulbs I had left over (WLED-x6: 6 LED T10 Wedge Base Bulb), and below is the result...you can see the hotspotting on the N, right above. Mounting it back was a b!tch but I finally got it.



I plan on ordering one of the T-10 base 360* HP LEDs in the Cool White to make it even and avoid the hotspotting.


I also did the following:

Dome light arrived (36SMD w/ festoon adapter):



Key ring LED:

So I ended up removing the whole steering column trim since I was a dum-dum and didn't actually realize the key ring area pops out. Whoops :-)

I also re-installed the instrument cluster LED that came loose last week.. fulll illumination FTW!

 

Jelly of that key ring lol. What led did you use?

 

From SuperBrightLEDs.com:

74-x: Wedge Base LED bulb (74-W: Cool White). This "cool white" also shows up as a normal white, not much in the way of blue.

I might pick up a blue one and see what that looks like, or for that matter might pick up either a 74-WHP or 74-CWHP3 (the-3 is the 360* one, might do a more complete light, not sure)

 

I heard something about sanding the one you got to help disperse the light better. I think a 360 degree one will be hella bright lol might be cool tho

 

does anyone know if you can replace the light with an led in the security system thing next to the cruise control on/off swith??

 

The little red light that flashes? I don't see why not...I actually think it is a regular 5mm LED standard though but I'm not sure.

 

Yes that one, I think im gona try it when i get home from classes. i dont have any solder left though, think ill have to end up soldering it in?

 

your guess is just as good as mine lol

Probably, though maybe not. I don't have the FSM on me right now (work) but if you look at page 250 (iirc) of the EL section where it gives the wiring diagram of the security system it may tell you what the light is...

I could just go out and pull mine off and take a look...might do that at break

 

wow i cant believe i didnt think of that lol, thanks

 

Security light...

unclipped and removed from the housing:


Another view (this shows polarity)



The gray rubber piece just slides right off from the black piece...


It IS an LED, a red led. There is NO FILM covering the little window so if you throw any color LED in there it will show that color. I didn't disassemble further, but you can probably get away with bending the leads in.

There IS A RESISTOR ALREADY IN PLACE, if you look closely @ the above picture you see a bit of blue...this is the resistor. It's a 680 Ohm resistor (I measured it). So it should be simple to swap out another component LED. 3mm or 5mm, either one.

 

Just swapped out the led on the security light for practice before even attempting to do the door switches. Awesome write-up.

 

You can hit up the 5th gen sections for additional help with doing switches look for the thread that says led poll by Tuner.
I also just did a Full led swap on my 4th gen A/C controls ill post a write up when i get a chance.

 

I am in the middle of doing my door switch LEDs...did the passenger front and both rears so far...flawless!!

I love down time at work

 

im in the process of all this also, need to get an extra set of switches for the doors to experiment on,aside from that i got bulbs for cluster ACC and doors on the way,map and dome are already done,also thinking of running an underhood LED light for visibility purposes at night,nothing special,just a simple 36 or 48 smd panel...just need to figure where i want to power it from,probable a good idea to connect it to the sensor when you open the hood...idk yet

 

All LEDs on the door switches - DONE

Rear Defrost LED - DONE
(For this one, I left the standard orange light that illuminates when the defrost is on, but I swapped out the backlighting for white LED...the backlighting bulb was out anyhow).

Going to order some LEDs for the manual climate control tonight...going to try and use 5mm 360* LEDs from SBL and solder resistors, using stock housings on 'em

 

^^^Thinking of re-doing this...with a 1k resistor instead of the 470 ohm I used...way bright. OR I could use a 3mm amber or red led here as well...what do you guys think?



Thinking of changing these out to blue, or maybe to LEDs that are not quite as bright...? Will decide after driving for a few nights.




edit: so now I have to change out the Hazard switch as well LOL compared to the defrost switch I can barely tell it's illuminated :-) I'll probably throw a orange LED with a 1K resistor on that baby.

 

Would you mind posting up a shopping list of all the led's and locations of placement for the SBL's that you have installed? I would like to do most of the same items myself and would prefer to order them all in one shot.

 

Sure, but I am in no way a pro at this...besides, I'm likely going to be changing stuff up. If I were you I'd read al the LED threads that have a TON of info on 'em on what to use and how to use them, and pic of 'em in action

 

^^ Im going to add some links to the OP to other LED threads.

This thread was just supposed to be me showing how i cheaply acquired the LED mod, and to show others how I did it. But the thread has took off since the actual LED thread hasnt been posted in in a while

 

Are you OK with the direction your thread has gone? If so, I have a bit more info to give re: EASILY changing the color of your 3mm LEDs. If not, I'll bump that old thread.

 

curious of where you folks tap the wires that run to the door courtesy lights from inside the cabin.

 

???

We don't tap any wires...we just use a T10 adapter to a multi-SMD LED board, like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vehicle-Car-...item337205fae2


plugs right in to the current door courtesy light. The above is an example, about 5 bucks too expensive though

 

thanks for the info. i meant extending the wires from the courtesy lights to take advantage for the door trigger function so the lights turn on when a door is open.

 

 

3 of the 4 NEO4 bulbs go in the auto-climate control unit with the positive side up. The 4th one, the LED for the fanspeed up and down switch mounts positive side down.

I have a multimeter, spare 12v external supply and some LEDs to figure this out.

Thank you much Tigersharkdude for this thead

DW

 

I now have these in my reverse lights
http://www.ebay.com/itm/120931904028...84.m1497.l2649
Here is a comparison between some Silverstar reverse bulbs and the Cree Q5 7w bulbs.

 

my 1995 manual climate control only had spots for 3 bulbs.

 

Correct... manual climate control has 3 backlighting LEDs while the auto has 4

 

quick question , it has been awhile since I had the front door panels off. I already popped out the rear window switches easily and soldered new LED's in them, but both front switches do not want to pop out easily like the rears. does the panel come off first then a screw? of do they pop out form rear to front like the rears.

 

th front window switch bezels pop out from the FRONT of the car....while the rears pop out by prying the rear of the bezel up.

 

that worked just fine thanks. as i was soldering the led's into the front switches I happend to notice all the resistors built into the switches where on the negative side of the LED. they all worked fine but when doing the dimmer/security/hazard/defrost LEDs i soldered the resistors onto the pos side of the LED. guess it works both ways?. "LED NEWB" here