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I did a bunch of searches through countless posts. I might have missed it somewhere. Does anyone have pictures of LEDS install in the gauges. I know it requires soldering. I just dont know where to solder for negative and positive to have the leds light up the gauges. Anyone have a picture of the leds soldered  in? Also can you just solder a LED to the foglight switch. Which one is the positive and negative. Thanks MAtt
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there is no soldering needed. the #74 bulbs from superbrightleds.com can just pop into the original socket of the bulb(s) you want to replace. you just have to be careful when pulling out the stock bulbs though.
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Originally posted by MattB:
I did a bunch of searches through countless posts. I might have missed it somewhere.
Does anyone have pictures of LEDS install in the gauges. I know it requires soldering. I just dont know where to solder for negative and positive to have the leds light up the gauges. Anyone have a picture of the leds soldered in?
Also can you just solder a LED to the foglight switch. Which one is the positive and negative.
Thanks
MAtt
here is a howto
http://coverstoryrock.com/auiotour/leds/tutorial/index.html
you can buy 5mm and 3mm here:
http://coverstoryrock.com/auiotour/leds.html
and here are the pictures you wanted:
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I know that howto is still a work in progress and all, but gotdaym that's sweet. I'm going to have so much fun this summer. I still have all the leds and resistors sitting on top of my computer monitor waiting to go in.  Question, though. In some of the pictures for the gauge install your car is obviously running while you're disassembling the dash... why? 
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Thanks, I could have sworn i had seen someone that just soldered some LEDS onto the back of the gauges. I rember seeing the back of the gauges and the leds soldered to the back. Is there any to tell what are the psositve and negative areas?
How do you get the factory bulb out, im having the tuffest time ever???
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Originally posted by MattB:
How do you get the factory bulb out, im having the tuffest time ever???
twist and pull.
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the #74 bulb fits all the sockets in the back of the main gauges?
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um... i must be blind but i dont see the #74 led bulb on that site anywhere?  can someone point me in da right direction? thanks!
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Originally posted by hetfield:
I know that howto is still a work in progress and all, but gotdaym that's sweet. I'm going to have so much fun this summer. I still have all the leds and resistors sitting on top of my computer monitor waiting to go in.
Question, though. In some of the pictures for the gauge install your car is obviously running while you're disassembling the dash... why?
I was checking how cool the lights looked off and on, during the installation. Unless you hook up something your not supposed to do something that has a negative affect you shouldn't have much problem. Besides my battery was starting to die so I had to turn my engine on in order to keep my battery from dying.
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