Savior
CEG'er
People keep asking me about where I got the bright vivid LED's for my gauge cluster and HVAC panel, so here's what I told one person, and a bit of my personal experience to save you from the pitfall of those bright "hot spots" in your gauges...
For your courtesy floor lights and the HVAC panel:
Go to http://autolumination.com/194.htm and scroll down to the "194 168 W5W 2825 Super Wide Angle Superstar Bulbs". These are what I have, but I am about to order a different set though, because these ones, althought they say they are "wide angle", aren't really all that wide-angle; they light up the areas right in front of them brighter, sort of creating bright, round "hot spots" in my gauges. So I am going to order a set of the ones towards the top of that page, the ones that have like 5 LED's in them, facing in all different directions. Also much brighter. I think these will be much brighter and wider-angle. I also intend to spraypaint the inside of my gauge cluster housing crome instead of black, I've heard this makes it considerably brighter.
For your actual speedo and tac gauge cluster:
You'll need about 7 (8 for good measure) of the #24's. They are on the page with the 74's, here: http://autolumination.com/74.htm They are about halfway down, and have "#74 too small?... #194 too big?... This is you bulb:" in the description. I am going to buy the "Matrix 5LED Bulb" version of these this time instead of the little single-LED version. They will be so much better I think.
As a side-note, everyone seems to be bent on blue gauges, but I always wanted to see someone go with something wild like red or orange or purple, although I'm willing to bet that if you can't/don't want get yourself a set of custom-colored gauge faces, you could just replace your old incandescent bulbs with those intense green LED's and it would look amazing too. I always thought it would look tropical or foresty or maybe super-techno. I would look really cool in a Tropic Green tour with the tan interior.
Well that's my advice and two cents. I hope this helps clear up the air on this subject a bit and makes peoples' gauges look all the better.
For your courtesy floor lights and the HVAC panel:
Go to http://autolumination.com/194.htm and scroll down to the "194 168 W5W 2825 Super Wide Angle Superstar Bulbs". These are what I have, but I am about to order a different set though, because these ones, althought they say they are "wide angle", aren't really all that wide-angle; they light up the areas right in front of them brighter, sort of creating bright, round "hot spots" in my gauges. So I am going to order a set of the ones towards the top of that page, the ones that have like 5 LED's in them, facing in all different directions. Also much brighter. I think these will be much brighter and wider-angle. I also intend to spraypaint the inside of my gauge cluster housing crome instead of black, I've heard this makes it considerably brighter.
For your actual speedo and tac gauge cluster:
You'll need about 7 (8 for good measure) of the #24's. They are on the page with the 74's, here: http://autolumination.com/74.htm They are about halfway down, and have "#74 too small?... #194 too big?... This is you bulb:" in the description. I am going to buy the "Matrix 5LED Bulb" version of these this time instead of the little single-LED version. They will be so much better I think.
As a side-note, everyone seems to be bent on blue gauges, but I always wanted to see someone go with something wild like red or orange or purple, although I'm willing to bet that if you can't/don't want get yourself a set of custom-colored gauge faces, you could just replace your old incandescent bulbs with those intense green LED's and it would look amazing too. I always thought it would look tropical or foresty or maybe super-techno. I would look really cool in a Tropic Green tour with the tan interior.
Well that's my advice and two cents. I hope this helps clear up the air on this subject a bit and makes peoples' gauges look all the better.