Gauge light during nightime

[naoandlata]

Factory?? I have pictures of mine after the LED conversion.

I digging the JDM amber. I wanted to do it but my HD doesn't match

 

[DarkSideAccord]

sooo bright! but sexy tho....

i wanna do white too, but i heard it's a pain to get rid of the filters... is it easy to mess up the gauge tho?

 

[Jeffro]

Here's talontsiawd's DIY... Pretty good, although I personally wanna go Blue, even though everyone seems to go blue or red... I still like blue

 

[Sketch o5]

Replacement all the way, although I haven't figured out how to get rid of the dead spot on my temp gauge.

maybe some aluminum foil layed out behind the gauge?

 

[talontsiawd]

maybe some aluminum foil layed out behind the gauge?

That's what i did. The only place it didn't work that well was the speedo, but it's defineatly good enough for me. And i'm rather picky. It's weird though, i had no trouble with my temp gauge.

 

[talontsiawd]

sooo bright! but sexy tho....

i wanna do white too, but i heard it's a pain to get rid of the filters... is it easy to mess up the gauge tho?

If you are ambitious, do white. I wouldn't say it's hard, but it's not easy and takes a lot more effort. And yes, you can easily mess up the needles. I used a datalogger to get mine back on spec. The temp and fuel is easy, the tach is pretty easy but i can pretty much garrentee you'll mess up the speedo so you need to be able to check it against your actual speed sensor reading.

 

[Totalimmortal]

maybe some aluminum foil layed out behind the gauge?

That's what i did. The only place it didn't work that well was the speedo, but it's defineatly good enough for me. And i'm rather picky. It's weird though, i had no trouble with my temp gauge.

Is this going to require me to remove my gauge face??

edit: We need multi-quote.

 

[talontsiawd]

Yeah, it will. On the temp gauge, it's hard to mess up but i'd probably stay away from it, i forgot others didn't have to take the faces off. Maybe a different style led.

 

[Sketch o5]

Yeah, it will. On the temp gauge, it's hard to mess up but i'd probably stay away from it, i forgot others didn't have to take the faces off. Maybe a different style led.

actually, not really. yes, youll have to take the gauge off, but you wont have to take the needles off to remove it. what youd do is remove the gauge assembly. like, their are these little tabs on the back of the curciut board, you bend them our, carefully, then you take something small, and push on the metal circle between the tabs, and the face should pop off, needles and everything still assembled. but youll have to do it to 2 needles assemblies, since that face has 2 readouts on one piece. its alot easier then it sounds. i had to do it to my speedo when i did the polarizing film on my odometer.

 

[talontsiawd]

actually, not really. yes, youll have to take the gauge off, but you wont have to take the needles off to remove it. what youd do is remove the gauge assembly. like, their are these little tabs on the back of the curciut board, you bend them our, carefully, then you take something small, and push on the metal circle between the tabs, and the face should pop off, needles and everything still assembled. but youll have to do it to 2 needles assemblies, since that face has 2 readouts on one piece. its alot easier then it sounds. i had to do it to my speedo when i did the polarizing film on my odometer.

True, i didn't think about that. I did that when i put my foil in . So yes, this is very true, pretty easy as well. Sorry for the misinfo, it's actually pretty easy once you have the cluster apart.