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has anyone swapped out their dash/climate control lights to LED's?

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Old Mar 23, 2009 | 10:13 PM
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has anyone swapped out their dash/climate control lights to LED's?

in a 5th gen?

how do you do it?
Old Mar 23, 2009 | 10:16 PM
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I have some lights out on mine.....here is the thread
http://forums.maxima.org/5th-generat...s-how-fix.html

I will most likely be doing it this weekend. I will probably swap to blue or red...the green is boring...I'll let you know when I'm done unless you find an answer before hand.
Old Mar 23, 2009 | 10:24 PM
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blurry pic but here you go, finished product of the dash and blose sytem (the blose is gone now and replaced with double din.

Old Mar 23, 2009 | 10:26 PM
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^ is that 5 or 5.5? so blurry cant tell..looks like 5th though...and you have to login to view that thread...not signing up lol...oh well ill make a write up on my 5.5 while im doing it
Old Mar 23, 2009 | 10:36 PM
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5.5 gen

try this one, might not have to login

http://gtamaxima.darkbb.com/5th-gen-...t_yyz-t278.htm
Old Mar 23, 2009 | 10:40 PM
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Nice I will use that. I will have to try to make a write up for the center controls (heat, stereo etc)
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climate controls are easy, just buy neowedge bulbs from autolumination. The bose is a major PITA, but it turned out well. You will need a ton of PLCC-2 leds for that to do it properly.
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K sounds good, I'll make a write up while I'm doing both. Thanks for the info
Old Mar 23, 2009 | 10:58 PM
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If i can find my old bose faceplate i will take a picture of it to show you how you can do it the messy way. It worked fine and no one would now that it looked like hell when I was done. I used 5mm wide angle led's. I didn't know you could buy the proper led's for the bose on ebay.
Old Mar 24, 2009 | 10:01 AM
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Knight,

In your write-up, did you simply use the original bulb locations, or are they surface mounted? Do you have any pictures of the other side of the gauge cluster after you finished?
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