hey i just saw a thread about neons, and im all about lighting....how do you change the bulbs behind the needles to...say blue...cause thats what i want....heres the thread i was talking about...

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....hreadid=109220

 

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Search the org for guage disassembly or something like that. But FYI, blue bulbs will not be bright enough for the guages. You need to get some blue LEDs. Search for LED bulbs and you'll find what you need.

 

Ben

Is that from your car? What kind of LEDs were used to produce that effect?

Oh, and BTW, which USP is that? I'm preferential to the .40Cal myself.

Thanks
Al

 

Those are plain old red #194 bulbs from autozone. Yes it's my car.

My USP is the .40 with the stainless steel slide. I have a Fobus holster for it.

 

Directions on how to take apart your dash: http://www.geocities.com/amixam69/nissan/dash/

I had red LEDs in my gauges too. And after they blew out, I put in orange 194s. Looked really good.

 

mzmtg, did you change all your instrumentation lights to red? i would like to change all mine (ac, window switches) like in my mom's bmw. is that a pain in the @ss?

 

Do you want to make just the needles blue, or the whole gauge? If you just want the needles then you need to get one of the Intelliglow needle kits from http://www.importintelligence.com/.

 

That looks just like mine

 

Check out this link from Maximadriver.com it's in there how2 section http://web.csuchico.edu/~ggross/LED.html
It will show you how to change the leds (lights) in the window switches at all 4 doors.

 

Thanks for all your help guys, but why is it nessesary to take off the bottom panels?

 

because when i tried to do it without taking the panels out i ended up cracking the black piece around the cluster, i had to squeeze it to get it to clear the stering wheel covers and it cracked, so take it all out to be safe.