Dash color change!
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:40 pm
Hey y'all,
It was time for a change! I'm done with the green. Early 90's green is not my cup of tea especially that I got my drivers in 2003 so it's not like I had an emotionnal attachment to kitch or old fashion!
To complete the project I had to find LED that would be plug and play as much as possible because I wanted the project to require minimal mods. SO I thought! There's about 3 billion type of LED and all of them could ish work.
A thing to remember about LED is that they're not made to work on 12 volt unless specified otherwise
The other thing to remember is that LED are polarized so if they don't light up, have them do a 180 in the wedge and they'll work!
Something I've noticed: Blue is way more intense then red.
The hardest part was the gear selector because I had to weld resistance on the circuit board and also because the light that illumanate all the letters is also a ''master resistance'' to the hole dash. Go figure. Basically if that light is not there, none of the lights will illuminate and it pisses me off because this circuit only work with incadescent light! F*** So until I find a solution I'm stuck with a yellow white and it looks terrible instead of having a clean white white!
SO I went for the all red dash with a couple of blue accent!! Blue could've also been done but my radio unit I bought was either green (beurk) or red.
basically everything is red except the flasher and Park Neutral Reverse
The only green left is the clock!
So here's the list
Cluster:
3 x T10 9 SMD 12v
16 x T1.5 5mm (give or take depending on what you want to change color) 12v
Heating unit
3 x Neo wedge 4mm 12v
2 x plain LED with two wires
Instrument panel
1 x plain LED with two wires
1 x 1K ohm resistance
2 x T10 5 SMD 12v
Glove box, cigarette lighter and ash tray
3 x T1.5 LED - Here you only need the LED and not the wedge
Gear selector (here's the fun)
7 x plain LED with two wires
7 x 1K ohm resistance
Dome reading light
2 x T10 9SMD 12v
The pictures:
in the reply
It was time for a change! I'm done with the green. Early 90's green is not my cup of tea especially that I got my drivers in 2003 so it's not like I had an emotionnal attachment to kitch or old fashion!
To complete the project I had to find LED that would be plug and play as much as possible because I wanted the project to require minimal mods. SO I thought! There's about 3 billion type of LED and all of them could ish work.
A thing to remember about LED is that they're not made to work on 12 volt unless specified otherwise
The other thing to remember is that LED are polarized so if they don't light up, have them do a 180 in the wedge and they'll work!
Something I've noticed: Blue is way more intense then red.
The hardest part was the gear selector because I had to weld resistance on the circuit board and also because the light that illumanate all the letters is also a ''master resistance'' to the hole dash. Go figure. Basically if that light is not there, none of the lights will illuminate and it pisses me off because this circuit only work with incadescent light! F*** So until I find a solution I'm stuck with a yellow white and it looks terrible instead of having a clean white white!
SO I went for the all red dash with a couple of blue accent!! Blue could've also been done but my radio unit I bought was either green (beurk) or red.
basically everything is red except the flasher and Park Neutral Reverse
The only green left is the clock!
So here's the list
Cluster:
3 x T10 9 SMD 12v
16 x T1.5 5mm (give or take depending on what you want to change color) 12v
- The back of the cluster. The 3 big wedges are the T10 9SMD
- IMG_3132_DxO.jpg (106.97 KiB) Viewed 11247 times
3 x Neo wedge 4mm 12v
2 x plain LED with two wires
- The temperature unit! # neo wedge and two LED that DON'T need a resistance because it was green led that were there before for the outside air and rear control button
- IMG_3139_DxO.jpg (64.4 KiB) Viewed 11247 times
- Rear of heating unit. You can see the 3 gray neowedge LED
- IMG_3140_DxO.jpg (112.95 KiB) Viewed 11247 times
Instrument panel
1 x plain LED with two wires
1 x 1K ohm resistance
2 x T10 5 SMD 12v
Glove box, cigarette lighter and ash tray
3 x T1.5 LED - Here you only need the LED and not the wedge
Gear selector (here's the fun)
7 x plain LED with two wires
7 x 1K ohm resistance
- The gear selector lights. On the far left is that stupid light that control all illumination of the car #@$%?&
- IMG_3136_DxO.jpg (47.94 KiB) Viewed 11247 times
- The gear selector color GREEN filter. I've used paint thinner to take off the color. Be sure not to wipe off the O/D
- IMG_3135_DxO.jpg (41.91 KiB) Viewed 11247 times
- Under the gear selector where I've weld the resistance. To do so I also had to cut in the board to bypass the connection!!!
- IMG_3137_DxO.jpg (71.83 KiB) Viewed 11247 times
2 x T10 9SMD 12v
The pictures:
in the reply
