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I am considering changing out the bulbs in my cluster for LED units, focused green for the turn signal bulbs and blue wide angles for the rest. Does anyone have any experience with this? I am concerned that the color will not come through correctly as the cluster has opaque colors printed on the speedo etc.

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You shouldn't have any issues with the blue,but as for the turns i would just leave them alone.

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Search, its been done recently, twice :thumb:

 

me being the first to do it

 

iirc, it's been done many times over.

 

i've done it several times over the years that i've owned w bodies.

 

i used the diffusion prisms from ohter clusters for best results with leds.

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1loudcutty I thought I remembered someone posting something along that line but I searched multiple terms and could not find it. As I recall didn't you say you ran into some difficulty doing yours? If I remember correctly you wired yous up manually; just out of curiousity why did you choose that route over the leds with the 194 bulb socket?

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1loudcutty I thought I remembered someone posting something along that line but I searched multiple terms and could not find it. As I recall didn't you say you ran into some difficulty doing yours? If I remember correctly you wired yous up manually; just out of curiousity why did you choose that route over the leds with the 194 bulb socket?

 

No, what was a bitch was swapping out LEDs in the DIC and aut climate control unit.

 

I tried just addind LEDs to the existing bulbs sockets for the cluster but soon realized actually solding the LEDs to the cluster board was an easier and more secure method

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1loudcutty, i did the same thing using 3mm leds and mini resistors. then i didn't have any fitment issues like you say you did

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Ok I plan to make the HVAC match as well so do any of you LED veterans have any tips or advice before I begin?

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Ok I plan to make the HVAC match as well so do any of you LED veterans have any tips or advice before I begin?

 

If its the CS's digital unit, then grab a bottle of rum... your gonna need it :lol:

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