helpppp!!!! i installed the leds in my dash and put the whole thing back together without testing them...stupid move i know...well now on side of the dash works and one side doesnt me speedo gas battery n temp all have light but the tachometer circle dosent what could this be...also the turn signals and high beam lights etc etc dont work...please help its drivin me nuts

 

What angle are the mini's? 32* or 90*?

 

Old I know, but I love posting pics.





I'm getting some smd 194's this week. Should be way brighter.

 

I have a 91 z28 do i need to paint anything inside the cluster for led's if so what and what color to paint it. Thank you

 

i have a 91 z is their any way to get rid of the yellow on the numbers, it gives my blue led's a green tint

 

What I would try is nail polish since it is easily purchased and readily available. But I don't know if it can last the elements. But before you try it, color something else and put next to the light for comparison. U might wanna paint a soda can and leave it outside for a months to see if the elements make the color change, peel, or crack.

 

i dont think the lights would shine thru then since nail polish isnt transparent i just want to get rid of the yellow tint

 

Hey guys,this doesnt have much to deal with dash lights but its in the same area so to speak

My shifter lights lightbulb died,and i was wondering if you get a replacement bulb somewhere or if youre suppose to replace the harness? Sorry i dont know much about this haha.
Im guessing theres a bulb at autozone and such but i just wanted to make sure

 

Maby you can find a colored thin plastic film such as that of window tint. It would be tough to know what the resulting color would be since there will be 3 different shades of color (led, plastic coloered film, and the color on the gauges).

 

there is a small light bulb just like the ones inside the gauges. Autozone has them.

 

i believe its a size 74 bulb? in my automatic 89 you have to remove the plate then unscrew the two screws from the shifter light. its like half the size of a 194 bulb hope this helps

 

I went ahead and just put red LED's in my stock '91 cluster. It actually turned out better than I thought it would. It doesn't look great in the pictures because I was using the camera on my phone. It's actually very evenly lit throughout unlike how it looks in the photo. There are no dark areas on it, overall I'm very satisfied for the time being.







It kinda reminds me of the cluster in my '06 Grand Prix. The camera on my phone makes the red lighting look pink and distorted on both the clusters...

 

Wow i like that, too bad my stereo didnt light red or i would do that.

the yellow numbers on the cluster didnt mess with the color of your lights as much but since i put blue lights in my numbers look green.

 

I've got a blue CD player display (super bright too haha), and a blue Interceptor scan gauge on th a-pillar. I don't really care though, the red in the cluster turned out better than the blue in my opinion.

 

did you put one in your hvac?

 

Ya but for some reason it doesn't light up near as well as the cluster.

 

i agree probably because they put it all the way to one side instead of in the middle

 

how many bulbs exactly are needed for just the gauges in an 87 IROC cluster?


Nevermind. found out it is 11

 

Here is another happy and satisfied customer of Super Bright LEDS (which is me).
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Just wondering what everyone who has done this mod has decided is the best colour to paint the back side of the metal bezel to make the LEDs shine brighter on the gauges. White, Silver, Chrome, or just put foil tape on the back side?

Brent

 

anyone?

 

I painted my bezel white and got a good enough result. I think that any white, silver or chrome is better than the factory light blue paint on the back of the bezel.

 

that's amazing, how did you get the white to be so distinguished from the red ?

 

well here is mine

 

5215 WHERE DO I GET THOSE WHITE GUAGES? I saw some youtube videos of Camaros doing burnouts, and someone had a dash that looked like that, and said it was $20 brand new. I wonder if he just meant the LED lights? I want the white, and the LED. Thanks if anyone can respond, that would be greee-at.

 

I believe i posted my results and pics a looong time ago in this exact thread, so scroll back if you want to see mine. I sprayed a gloss white and thought it looked much better!

 

Do you mean these kind of white gauges? http://whitegauges.net/categories/Wh...vrolet/Camaro/

 

I installed the LED's in my dash today, and I have a couple extra so I decided to try to put them in the map lights on the rear view mirror to match the LED dome light I got. But they dont fit? the housing is to wide.

So my question is, has anyone else run in to this problem? and how did you fix it. Or which is the proper LED to order that would fit in there?

Thanks
Brent

 

yups, know what you mean, the trick is to take the mirror itself out.
then take out the complete lampholders, change the lamps to leds.
put the lampholders back behind the mirror. put the mirror back in it. and done

will take you 20 to 30 minutes if you don't know how to do it. and have to search after everything.
if you know how it al works, it will take you 5 to 10 mniutes.
a small flat screwdriver will help you to take the bezef of infront of the mirror itself

 

here is mine now, part of it at least...

 

Thats what I did. but when I was trying to put the LED and socket back into the lense it wouldnt fit because the housing of the LED itself is wider then the regular bulb that went in there. Did you just force it and it worked? I dont want to break any of the plastic.

 

anyone else have trouble fitting the LEDs into the rear view mirror map lights?

 

Hey, those LED's are sweet. but i couldn't help but notice your temperature gauge is in Celsius, what temperature is our cars supposed to run at in Celsius? I've been reading Fahrenheit my whole life.

 

nonono , you still have to put the lens housing over the socket, put the led in it, then reassemble to complete thing back into the mirror. but it could be that your leds are bigger then mine.

about the temps.


195 degrees fahrenheit ( stock thermostat ) is 90 degrees celcius . ( operating temp )

230 degrees is 110 degrees celcius, temp the fan kicks in on a v6

212 degrees is 100 degrees celcius, temp the fan kicks back out.

 

I think thats the problem. The LEDs I have are to big. But they are the mini wedge from superbrightleds.com? is that what everyone else has used?

 

i used the mini aswell.. they worked great i would tell everyone to do this mod for sure.. OH and upgrade to H.I.D.s aswell.. i did all my lighting.. best money i have spent on the car so far for return.. and i did the back of my bezel with alum tape..

 

you used the mini wedge in the mirror map lights?

 

What did you have to do to get that effect? I assume the #194-4 wedge cool white LEDs from superbrightleds.com, but was there anything else besides that? That looks amazing and I would like to redo mine to look like that.

 

I did the same thing with my 83 interior. All blue LED lighting. I think Ill save up and just buy all new Autometer gauges (: blue of course

 

I see a lot of people posting about being happy and satisfied with results like this. Is this the best you can expect with non cool white LEDs. All of the pictures I've seen thus far look severely dim and blotchy. You can't even see some of the numbers in the pictures in this post. The only one that didn't look dim was the one posted before using the cool white.

I was thinking about doing my cluster in LEDs but if really dim results like above are what I can expect, I think I'll have to pass =/

 

These pictures are taken with my BlackBerry, which has no LED flash and a 2 megapixel resolution. They do look better than the picture shows. But other than that, the blue light can get brighter with another type of LED as well as some aluminum tape behind the gauges. Ill help keep the light from being absorbed into the back of the gauges and will help reflect the light.

 

How did you fit the pillow into your dashboard? HAHAHAHA. Just kidding bro. Cluster looks nice man!

 

They really do look nice, dont worry these pictures are dim, all the numbers will show up bright as day, I even made my turn indicators blue for extra style points. It really helps to pull the cluster out of the dash so you can twist off the light holder thingies and change to the LEDs that way, since they only work one way its a real pain trying to get to some of them with a pair of pliers! especially the turn indicators D: Just hold the cluster in place and figure out which LEDs need to be turned around. When thats done bolt the cluster back together (: Its a really nice setup for stock, the A/C and heat controls light up too, a bit dim tho and if you drive automatic that lights up blue as well

 

I noticed on superbrightleds.com, if you try to find LEDs using the vehicle bulb finder, they list a different number for the gauge panel than people have listed on here. They list 191 and 74 rather than 194. I trust the people on here who have done the mod, rather than the site, but what is the difference exactly? Why the different numbers?

 

DROOOOOOOL

 

thanks a lot, was a bit of work, I ordered my LED's off of Ebay, and made my own mounts/etc. Of course, in the car, I used the dimmer switch to make them not so bright, because at night time, they are just ridiculous bright if they are on full power

 

I just ordered mine bulbs today. gonna do all red for the gauges, courtesy light, shift indicator, and maybe a new set of courtesy lights in the rear I'm gonna make a video tutorial for this as well for anyone having problems or for future reference, I'll post the link and my end results when I'm done. Thanks for the great site for bulbs

 

I am going to watch it

 

what is the best red 194 bulb from super leds or vleds?

 

did i ever send you the pics of a actual Kitt car that showed up on out property at cruising the coast last year???