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I've eventually got round to uploading the pics of my blue dash. It was quite easy to do just got to have a (slightly) steady hand .

Looks the business mate. What did u use? Leds? How did you do the clock ones?

very nice mate.
thats what idid with mine but had to stop on the heater controls,
iguess youve been soldering

that looks very good.

in some clocks the illuminator bulb is just a 501 side light bulb in a big holder.

i replaced mine yesterday with white LED 501 side lights. theres 7 in total on my clocks.

The mfd is same as sidelight bulbs,
but the heater/aircon pannel is solderd in bulbs , smds ithink they are,

ihad abash at it but its very fiddly,

ye my main clocks use standard sidelights as well

Didn't you need to scrub off the white stuff from the back of the MDF to get rid of the orangey glow. Love this though... looks very good, especially the clocks.

The clocks were smd bulbs that had to be soldered on just like the mfd. The bit with the clock was them twist in bulbs. The mfd had an orange bit of plastic on the rear, all I did to solve that was take it out and replace it with a bit of a cravendale milk carton then put blue lights behind it . I've also done the cigaret lighter soket blue and all the window switches

Looks very cool that

That looks absolutely awesome.

That looks great.
I want my dials like that too, but I would prefer the needles to be red. Would this be possible?
Cheers
Dave

It should be possible. Theres a white led under the needle that makes it glow white so i dont see any reason it wouldnt glow red if you changed the led to a red one.

JD406 wrote:It should be possible. Theres a white led under the needle that makes it glow white so i dont see any reason it wouldnt glow red if you changed the led to a red one.

Cheers JD406!

Can I ask how many LED's you used for your setup? So I can make up a shopping list.

Thanks

Dave

I think I bought 30 smd's, 3 twist in bulbs and 10 of them little led's with the 2 long legs (sorry I can't remember what they are called). That did the mfd clocks and window switches.

What colour you doing if you don't mind me asking.

Cheers Mate
I was planning to do the blue backlit dials like yours. I have since been massively put off the idea as it seems that it wont be a case of simply twisting out the old bulbs and replacing with twist in LEDs. Later dials are backlit by the those tiny LEDs mounted directly to the PCB.
Way too much faff, if at all possible.