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HELP!!! Change out lights with LED in cluster gauge
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HELP!!! Change out lights with LED in cluster gauge
Hi All,
With the inspiration of others on this forum, I decided to mod my gauges so that it is white instead of orange. I kept the rest of the interior orange. I wanted it to have the luxurious look and feel like Lexus, new G35, Mercedes, etc.
https://g35driver.com/forums/showthr...remove+cluster
https://g35driver.com/forums/showthr...ht=cluster+led
I followed the examples of Accordfreak and Alan, whom advised me to get T1.5-W bulbs from http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b....17033&next=50 Here are my results thus far. The lighting appears spotty and it doesn't light up the meters. Not only that, it looks more blue than white. I am not entirely disappointed in this work, but it is not the best. Instead of sanding the yellow, I used finger nail polish remover with q-tipps. It was a lot easier, but caused some complication. The acetone caused cracks in 2 of the numbers and it literally cracked the plastic in two places about 1 inch long by the fuel gauge. I would recommend others using something less strong like alcohol or goof off.
If anyone has done this before, please provide me with a method that will show uniform light output. Someone suggest using defusors, but I don't know where to begin with that. I could also use regular bulb with blue tint to give it white appearance, but it would not be the true white that I am looking for. There are also 3-LED bulbs, but it may be too bright.
Also, what do you guys think, should I leave the kph in yellow or make it white all the way. White gives it a clean look, but the yellow kph gives it a unique look. I would like to change the color of the mileage lcd display to white as well, but it seems too complicated and I don't want to ruin the gauges more than I already have.
Any help would be greatly appreaciated.
With the inspiration of others on this forum, I decided to mod my gauges so that it is white instead of orange. I kept the rest of the interior orange. I wanted it to have the luxurious look and feel like Lexus, new G35, Mercedes, etc.
https://g35driver.com/forums/showthr...remove+cluster
https://g35driver.com/forums/showthr...ht=cluster+led
I followed the examples of Accordfreak and Alan, whom advised me to get T1.5-W bulbs from http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b....17033&next=50 Here are my results thus far. The lighting appears spotty and it doesn't light up the meters. Not only that, it looks more blue than white. I am not entirely disappointed in this work, but it is not the best. Instead of sanding the yellow, I used finger nail polish remover with q-tipps. It was a lot easier, but caused some complication. The acetone caused cracks in 2 of the numbers and it literally cracked the plastic in two places about 1 inch long by the fuel gauge. I would recommend others using something less strong like alcohol or goof off.
If anyone has done this before, please provide me with a method that will show uniform light output. Someone suggest using defusors, but I don't know where to begin with that. I could also use regular bulb with blue tint to give it white appearance, but it would not be the true white that I am looking for. There are also 3-LED bulbs, but it may be too bright.
Also, what do you guys think, should I leave the kph in yellow or make it white all the way. White gives it a clean look, but the yellow kph gives it a unique look. I would like to change the color of the mileage lcd display to white as well, but it seems too complicated and I don't want to ruin the gauges more than I already have.
Any help would be greatly appreaciated.
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to get the light spread evenly, get a polyethylene sheet, cut it to size of the gauge cluster and attached it behind the gauges to diffuse the light throughout the gauge cluster
http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=410&
http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=410&
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