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jdmcg3

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its not currently in the car.. but its a little something im working on.. very slowly at that

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Took a shot of the whole dash on my way home. I played around with the LEDs some more today and think I'm satisfied for the time being. Will try to take a better pic soon to replace this one. The lights all look more red and less orange in person.
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Took a shot of the whole dash on my way home. I played around with the LEDs some more today and think I'm satisfied for the time being. Will try to take a better pic soon to replace this one. The lights all look more red and less orange in person.
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Looks good, by any chance do you remember the bulb sizes for the temp controls?

My clock and emergency lights were out and I replaced the bulb but it still didn't work. Anybody have suggestions?
 

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If you replaced it with an LED , try flipping the bulb. The have to be oriented a certain way to work, if they're backwards they won't. Search through some of the LED DIY threads, they list al the sizes.
 

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My blue LED dash. Makes me want a new head unit because the dash lights up blue, but my radio lights up red. Clashes too much for my liking.
 

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Makes me want to try and reverse polarize some stuff... too scurred that I'd mess it up though :squintrun:

haha, well the only way you can mess up is by cracking the glass. but thats the worst way to too, haha. its not too bad though, just have to take you time and be gentle.

Your gauges look great, Andy. Is that how the euro gauges come or did you do something to them for just the numbers and needle to light up?

the car was off, and the odometer is constantly lit when the car is on, so its not controlled by the light switch. and thats the stock usdm cluster that came on my car...i just swapped a km/h speedo in, haha.​
 
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