Alright so tonight while my girl was drivin my car i deicied to rip the rubber off the knobs so they are clear. I dont like the color they glow. So how do i change the color that they glow? I seen someone used a transparent (sp?) paint. What kinda paint is it and where can i get it?
yea, there is candy coat model paint you can get or i believe krylon makes a stain paint.
u use stained glass paint
LED's are the way to go...2 #74 leds...pull out old bulbs...pop in new ones
Grillrd wrote:LED's are the way to go...2 #74 leds...pull out old bulbs...pop in new ones
Detailed instrucions? where to get them? is it hard?
Grillrd wrote:LED's are the way to go...2 #74 leds...pull out old bulbs...pop in new ones
i agree. i put red leds in my girlfriends sunfire and have blue ones in my cav. i also put blue bulbs in my gauge cluster so that it lights up blue at night
I read about a lot of problem people have with replacing those HVAC lights. Just be careful.
hvacs dont sound hard, its the cluster thats a major PITA
exodus 259 wrote:I read about a lot of problem people have with replacing those HVAC lights. Just be careful.
problem is the glass breaks....so u use a needle nose pliers to take it out...wow that was hard...that's honestly the only "problem" i encountered...that and sore fingers
change the led's its not hard at all the worst part is taking apart the dash but even thats easy just time consuming. thing is the leds will last alot long then the viynl or paint that will fade and youd have to be a pretty good painter to make it look even
You could go with the stained glass paint im sure, but if you could get lucky enough, you could go somewhere to get liquid tint, like maybe an eyecare place, thats where i might get mine done sometime.
i think ill go with the leds since i like the intense light they give off. Is there any store i could buy them at? like radio shack or someplace?
Ryan Shissler wrote:i think ill go with the leds since i like the intense light they give off. Is there any store i could buy them at? like radio shack or someplace?
Yeah. If you're getting a small quantity of LED's (1-4) Radio Shack has them.
Anything more than that, for cost efficiency, try either eBay or [URL=lsdiodes.com]lsdiodes.com[/URL]
^^^^^i was just at radio shack and they had some, but there were like 3.99 for just one, and they had a tiny light bulb on the end, with a little strip of metal goin back or something. The ones that are on ebay look totally different. You need 3 bulbs for the HVAC and i wanna do this, so i might just do it on ebay! seems like it would work better.
you need 2 bulbs for the hvac
That sounds pretty hot. right now I have indiglo guages but think i might switch back to stock with different color LED's behind it. Do you have a pic posted anywhere so I can see what it looks like? Also how many LED's does it call for?
if you look at the post directly above the one u just did...it says you need 2 bulbs...bulbs = leds.
ok this sounds like a coll idea but you lost me do i take my whole dash out for this or? what did i miss
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after changing to the new colored leds, how well do the printed displays as to how hot/cold, or what fan setting you're on show up? does it still light up blue/red normally for cold and hot from using, say, a blue led?
replica48 wrote:after changing to the new colored leds, how well do the printed displays as to how hot/cold, or what fan setting you're on show up? does it still light up blue/red normally for cold and hot from using, say, a blue led?
See 2 posts above yours. Grillrd posted a pic w/ blue LED's.
Thanks for the pic...I got the post abut 2 bulbs for the HVAC but how about the guage cluster in the dash. I have a 1999 Z24
Kardain wrote:replica48 wrote:after changing to the new colored leds, how well do the printed displays as to how hot/cold, or what fan setting you're on show up? does it still light up blue/red normally for cold and hot from using, say, a blue led?
See 2 posts above yours. Grillrd posted a pic w/ blue LED's.
I saw that pic, it just isn't clear enough for me to know if everything shows up.
