Originally posted by HellaHydro:
Originally posted by JPett:
[b]Excellent idea. I'm in the middle of doing the same only it will all be in blue
It took a better part of the day do to, including ripping it all apart and putting it all back together. The hardest part was that you have to either find led's that will work w/ the current resistor or change that out also. 5mm led's are a bit too large but they will work in the switches. 3mm would be better though.
As for the color of the switches, they get their green color from a green led not an overlay like on the hvac panel. So you can put in what ever color you like.
As for changing the color of the hvac panel and the headlight switch illumination, you can either buy a new hvac panel to glow in blue or you can do what I plan on doing. I did this w/ my factory gauges when I got my new ones from BNM.
I took an exacto knife and scrapped off the overlay the causes it to be green from the back side, just over each number and cleaned it up with some not so harsh solvent. Then I used some blue celophane, dark blue as the light blue makes it look tealish/green, and used spray adhesive to secure it to the back of the gauge. You can hold it up to a light to see the color and add another layer if you'd like. It works really well, plus it makes the numbers glow a bit brighter than stock. I plan on putting the factory gauges that I did this way back in once I do the hvac panel too.
Oh yeah, and another tip: red led's are the least expensive and easiest to find where as blue ones are harder to find in a smaller size and are almost triple the cost of the red ones.
And also, it is better if you can find led's that have a 180 degree viewing angle.
