Just wanting to start a new thread on cluster LED options. Currently, I have superbrightled plug and play warm white 3 LED installed. I like the white color they produce in my SE cluster but don't love the hot spotting.


The hot spots are not as noticable at night, but at dusk they really stand out. I picked up some lighthouse LED flat top cool white to try out but they are quite blue in the cluster and didn't reduce the hotspots.
In addition, they are a nuisance to install requiring resistors and custom fabrication to use the 74 base.

I found these vleds VLED 74 6 LEDand wondering if anyone had tried these out? I'd prefer a warmer color temp than they offer though.

 

Thanks for posting this. This was going to be my next task after the swap. My cluster is entirely too dim. I may even have a bulb out, not sure. I've had the car since July and have yet to drive it even just around the block. Is the cluster removal pretty intuitive? Any tricks to disassembly? I hate asking questions before I assess an issue for myself as I'm usually able to figure most things out, but I'm starting off with zero knowledge about stock cluster removal and this will be my first.

 

I guess you'd need to make a diffuser to help with the hot spots. or maybe they make higher end LEDs with better diffusion, other wise i'd probably just run bulbs for that very reason.

 

 

https://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/...ed,121,39,360:

The 5mm, 360 degree led's in the above link are the only ones I know that dont hot spot. They work great in my HVAC.
Obviously a little soldering and a resistor is needed...plus this for the dash:

http://www.autolumination.com/wiring...-bulb-base.htm

 

 

Thank you for this info! Definitely on my list!

 

Interesting. I have super-bright led's blue color installed without any hotspots.

It's been a while since the install, but I do believe there are 3 leds per bulb. Maybe I find the exact bulb type that I ordered if that would help you.

Can you turn/insert the bulbs 180 deg to see if the light is dispersed differently?

 

is the cluster hard to take out and switch bulbs? my MPH side has been out (of and on randomly) for couple years and i got LED bulbs to replace...i can post results if I can do the cluster myself =)

 

 

These bulbs look pretty similar to the ones I got from superbrightleds, and pretty similar results.

Even though I want a plug and play solution, those bases might make the process tolerable. My HVAC hotspotting is currently worse than the dash, but I don't spend as much time looking at it.

 

Thanks dude ! gonna try this soon dosent sound too bad, and i will post results, i got plug and play bulbs superbrightleds.

 

cant find my bulbs now.... sigh... my shifter light is out too, any one know that size?

 

great member, found this searching for shifter light.

 

What's a shifter light? I could have the cluster out in about 3 minutes. It's really easy. I also have super bright led's throughout my car with zero hotspoting. I bought them within the last year so maybe they have? newer versions that work better.

 

thanks ChrisMan and freezer! just got a maxima daily again to add to my M3 and Accord and first post back I get some great info from one of the OG's

 

where did you buy them ? and sounds good w taking the dash apart ! i always thought it was a head ache, but yea most interior stuff isnt all that bad

 

pics ! or no proof =)

 

 

2003 titanium edition with 88k on it fell into my lap at work , quarters are PERFFFECT and just had it wetsanded , cut and buffed. so far EVERRRY bulb replaced LED besides the cluster which I ordered the leds chrisman /OP said to to reduce hot spots. next is putting on the track editions I had on the Original maxima I had (I have 3 sets of track editions!) , coilovers and install my DDIN I kept from my maxima lol love it just got the bose harness in BUT maybe one of you will know the DDIN dash kit I got isn't titanium! its a grey color. where can I get the correct one

 

 

 

I think he is referring to the small bulb above the area of the ash tray where the light shines around the shifter and central console.

 

very nice man ! that thing is freaking mint, body and mileage! wow especially NE car too! wow, sweet color too. i made a badgeless grille for mine ! =) i figure give or take 80 hours from fab to paint. before there was an ebay one arghh!. lol
what coils are u thinking? and sorry i have no idea on the dash kit stuff. but welcome, good

nope ! i was referering to the back light at the actual shifter that illuminates PRD321

 

so I got "white" leds and it looks blue -_- I ordered new actual white leds and im gonna try again. the seller claims white .. nah blue

 

If you have an SE cluster you need to buy warm white ( yellowish) if you want the cluster to appear white and not blue.

 

SEM color match paint

​​​​​​​I was making a joke about not having a manual.

 

5.5 gen clusters will always look blue because of the tint on the cluster face

 

 

looks great man ! i cant find the bulbs I got for this, so i am gonna agree with you and get warm whtie to avoid the blue look as much as possible.

 

are the oem bulbs in the guage LED? or incandescent? i cant figure out why the past 4 years the mph side has been out for 80% of the time, and then turns on when it wants on a rare ocassion, today driving to work, and it turned on in middle of drive, but then stays off for days at a time.
my key ring is out, shifter light, and mph light, and come to think of it probably glove box.

 

The 4 illumination lamps are incandescent, high beam indicator and turn signals too IIRC. Everything else in the cluster is LED for MY 2002-2003

 

thanks Freezer, i have no idea then why my MPH gauge turns off an on when it wants too , it was on this morning but not on last night.

 

Can you just pull out the old bulbs and plug the LED bulbs in, or do you need resistors and other parts?