Subscribed! Looks like just the 5.
I like to replace mine too. I found I had one blown. I replaced it but it would be nice to have them brighter. One question can these be dimmed with the stock switch?
If I remember correctly, the gauge faces have an amber film that is laminated between the foil face and the plastic diffuser backing. If you put white (or whatever color bulbs in) the back-light on the gauges will still be tinted amber.There is no way to remove that amber tint without destroying the gauge face. I played around with white leds a few years back. They were a lot brighter but still amber
as for dimming.. You can still dim them slightly.
Interested to see what you come up with.
^ i did just that...
i converted my CCU face and HU from orange illumination to white illumintation.
i swapped orange selection lights to red leds and green bulbs to green leds.
I'm yet to convert the screens, but i already know what gel filter color i have to buy
to convert them to white light... have to source some tone samples to check what's
the right tone.
It was an intense conversion... lot's of welds and stuff... but i managed
If you need help with the voltages, i know them all!!
Thanks,
Nuno
Hi,
well ... first of all, don't forget that i only changed:..........
Nuno
Hi,
everything that dimmed before, dimms now too... what i did was a direct change from tiny bulbs to LEDs, or
Leds to Leds (to change color).
In the CCU, the whole illumination is done by only 2 Bulbs...replacing them directly with 2 LEDs won't do it...
i even sanded the LEDs so they diffuse more and project less, but i had to add more leds to it... not complicated.
I will add 1 or 2 more leds to the CCU display the next time i open it for balancing, just to smooth.
All in all...if you are familiar with a soldering iron and familiar to remove and weld back this type of electronic
components, you will do it with easy..
To resume it: It's easy to do, but take you time to do it right...lot's of testing....i'm far from done...but it's
rewarding to see the results (even beeing this bad balanced :tongue
I also changed the Cigarrete lighter ring and ashtray illumination to white...and the Euro/JDM switchs to white also.
The only thing still orange in my whole center console is the 3 displays: CCU, HU and Clock
Nuno
PS - when i remove everything to start the balance process, i'll take photos of what i have done and explain how
and why.