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by **festasi** on Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:14 am

bridgend_boy :so how do i get a blue dash light by using the standard bulbs?

fast car had "R-TEC'S" fiesta turbo which had blue dash!
but did'nt say how or what they did!

so is it possible to have blue lights without cutting or anything?
dont midn changing bulbs, or painting or taking that filter thing ur on about!??!?!?!?

cnt jus changwe bulbs....theres a green filter

do LED's it aint hard :wink:

by **RS rob** on Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:20 am

so with these LED's do they fit straight in? any extra wiring?
do i leave the green filter in???

where's the best place to get the LED's? how much about?

by **heeman10** on Thu Feb 27, 2003 4:06 pm

Some guy was selling them on eBay, complete with OSRAM fittings so you can simply replace the standard bulbs...guess how much :-?

..........................................................................................................

About £30 I think!!!! :O :O :O Think how much an LED bulb costs!!!

Surely someone does them for the price they actually SHOULD be, ie about £3 max, complete with OSRAM fitting??

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrG33kman · by **zetec_si** on Thu Feb 27, 2003 9:26 pm

Red LEDs - 7p each
Green LEDs - 5p each
Yellow LEDs - 5p each
Blue LEDs £2.58!!!!

All out of CPC trade catalogue thats in my mates TV and Video repair shop.

Nice sig by the way Phil :wink:

by **Rich si** on Tue Apr 22, 2003 8:58 am

Quick question, I'm poss gona change the colour of my dash and clock but is it possible to change the colour of the bits that light up on the heater controls and the bits above the buttons for the rear window and fog lights etc? Otherwise I think it'l look a bit od with a mix of colours

by **Smacattack** on Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:13 pm

takes one sec to take off so have a fiddle paint the bulb n see wot happens!

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrG33kman · by **zetec_si** on Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:03 pm

The bulbs behind the fan controls can be painted (or replaced) with colour. They are the same bulbs as ur sidelights so you could just buy bluesidelight bulbs if you wanted to.
The lights on the fog lamps, rear heater controls etc, cannot be changed as easy since the LED's are sealed inside them afaik. (these are dark anyway, but I'm gonna try to change them one day)

by **Cl@ssy Burd** on Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:06 pm

I just got some superbrite LEDS off ebay:

10 superbrite Blue ones
10 superbrite White ones
10 superbrite UV ones

All for £10 + £2 p+p

Now cud somebody please gimmie the link again on how to wire them in, ive took out the green filter, but now am abit stuck.

Cheers

by **df908** on Thu May 01, 2003 11:10 am

Cl@ssy Burd :Now cud somebody please gimmie the link again on how to wire them in, ive took out the green filter, but now am abit stuck.

Page 1 of this thread?

You need a 330 ohm resistor for each led like this:

o----res----led----o

then stick 12V to the "o"s. If it don't light up swap 12V and Gnd.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrG33kman · by **zetec_si** on Thu May 01, 2003 10:19 pm

If you want to use leds instead of bulbs (like I did) then you will need a 330 ohm resistor or you can wire 3 LED's in series to spread the voltage.

If they are the clear superbright LED's (like I have had experience with) then you will need to rough up the tip as the end of the acts as a magnifying glass and projects a more direct beam.
Scratching up the surface will help scatter the light and stop it from proding spots under the dash.

by **Cl@ssy Burd** on Fri May 02, 2003 12:47 am

OK tried this today, first attempt, led lit up then went out almost straight away.
Second attempt with diff resistor, the led fizzled hehehe

How did u find the best way was to hold the leds in place on the dash also?

by **SimonIce** on Fri May 02, 2003 12:42 pm

Tracing paper works well was a light difusser. Could use some of that to spread the light about more evenly.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrG33kman · by **zetec_si** on Wed May 07, 2003 12:34 am

Mine are held by low temperature glue from a hot glue gun so that they dont move or vibrate. It is tricky to get the glue there though.

by **mikester** on Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:08 am

has anybody done this on a mk4 yet?? i took the dash apart the other day and couldn't find a way into the dials?!

by **mikester** on Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:25 am

*bump*

by **Max M4X WW** on Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:55 am

mikester :has anybody done this on a mk4 yet?? i took the dash apart the other day and couldn't find a way into the dials?!

Same principal i would imagine mate, Looked at my mates mk4 dials the other day when they were changed to white ones with a rev counter and they look near enough the same as Mk3 ones

by **wywywywy** on Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:40 am

Any places to get cheap blue sidelight bulbs by the way?
They are like 6 pounds a pair

Thanks.

by **Max M4X WW** on Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:07 pm

I got some white ones on ebay from japan, £4 or something. They are cheap and s**t though. But they all are.

by **Ghaf** on Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:42 am

mate how much hav u lowered ur car by with what shocks also what inch wheels u got on do they rub any arch mods?
by the way ive done the dash mod backlight jet blue with red needles also changed rest of green lights to blue looks the mutts nutts.

by **mikester** on Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:25 pm

Max M4X WW :
mikester :has anybody done this on a mk4 yet?? i took the dash apart the other day and couldn't find a way into the dials?!

Same principal i would imagine mate, Looked at my mates mk4 dials the other day when they were changed to white ones with a rev counter and they look near enough the same as Mk3 ones

i took the dials out the other day, well i tried. i couldn't get them out far enough to unplug the wiring (presuming thats what you do) i couldn't see the back of it at all and didn't wanna yank at it just in case i ballsed it up

by **Badgerboy** on Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:04 pm

Or do what I do, which was think you had disconnected the speedo cable, when you hadn't...

SNAP!

No clip holding it on now, so sometimes the needle shakes a little. Suppose I better fix that this afternoon!

(Oh, for my dash, I stuck a 4" cold cathode tube into the area where the green filter goes. Work really well)

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