A buddy of mine who works with LEDs help me make these. He did it to all 4 window switches and they came out good. These pictures don't do the switches any justice. The pictures also came out a bit blurry so don't mind the pictures.

Front driver



Front passenger



Rear passenger



Rear driver

 

These pictures do not do them any justice since they didn't come out the best. My friend will also be doing my climate control pretty soon as it will have a blue and white combo.

 

That looks sick! I now want to do that to my car, but I'm not so good with that sort of thing.

Can you tell us how he did it?

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....=58751&t=37439

this will give you an idea of how to start

I'm doing red since everyone did blue

 

He opened the switches and soldered the leds onto the circuit board. It was a bish trying to figure why some would light up.

 

what size did you use

 

I forgot I'd have to ask him. It was a pain in the a$$ to do or thats what he told me.

 

nice **** rite dare yo

 

law, yeah holmes, find out which voltage leds he used, you shoulda got him to snap pics of it while he had it opened and in the process (hindsight is 20/20 i guess). anyway, yeah that looks hot; i've been wanting to do my clock, ignition ring, and climate control buttons too. the climate control ones ar what worries me the most.

 

He is about to do the climate control buttons for me soon. He has the control at the moment taking his time to see where he can place LEDs to make everything light up evenly.

 

awesome, if it isn't too much trouble for him, could you see if he could snap a couple of "in-progress" pics for reference for the rest of us? much appreciated.

 

Yeah, I'll talk to him and see if he will do it.

 

The LED's to use are 3mm. The brightness depends on the value of the mcd's. The higher the number, the brighter the LED. I used 3mm, 5000 mcds in my door switches, and underneath the climate control unit. I also modded the LED shifter indicators in the guage cluster with 5mm LEDs and also did the turn signal indicators as well. Here are a few pics of them installed in my car. There's plenty of write-ups on these LED mods. Search is your friend.

 

THANKS DAWG!!! thats what i needed to know and nice tweeters

 

wish i knew how to make some of these, damn... somebody sell me some plzzz

 

My friend might actually start selling them but you'd have to be without your window switches for a few days. But I'd have to ask him if he would be willing too.

 

It looks pretty cool. Maybe I'll try it if I'll find some spare time.

 

I just finished my drivers door side mod, hehe heres a pic. and you aint lying, IT IS A PAIN IN THE A$$ Only the driver door switches have surface mount leds, the rest are normal, and theres 4 contacts per led ugg.

 

looks like a lot of work to me. It does look very nice though

 

It took some time, its well worth it, This pic is with the switches apart, I used a 9 volt battery to power them up and make sure i installed them all correctly.hehe the top left one is off center and i cant put up my rear window lol, ill have to fix that later, i had a headache and said screw it for now , plus it was 94F lastnight at 2 am when i deceided to do it.

 

Ugg the passenger side door was worse, it has 2 contacts, 2 springs and 2 *****, i was not expecting that when i popped it open, but the led just slides right off on a rubber mount, Looks good