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First off, I'm sure someone has done this before, but I just did it and I want
to see if there's some improvements that can be done.
Well, it will need some revisions, but the first place I put them was the top.
This made the cluster much brighter. So bright, in fact, that I had to turn
the overall brightness down.
I'm thinking I'll sand down that green filter (leaving it in with the LED's turns
the entire cluster face this weird bluish hue) and paint it with a coat or two
of VHT Niteshades and see what it does. I also want to paint just the interior
of the black surround bezel a matte black color to prevent so much reflection
onto the windshield. You'll see it in the pictures. I took one up close and one
about face level.
I tried replacing all bulbs with LED's, but this didn't turn out to be a good
plan as they bled over into each other. I think in the end I replaced all of
the smaller bulbs with LED's and just replace the big ones on the side and
the three on the top with LED's. All of the rest are the standard bulbs.
Picture numbers:
1.) LED's in the turn signal.
2.) LED CEL.
3.) Shows how much it lights up the needles (before I couldn't see my fuel level when it was dark)
4.) Parking brake LED
5.) All of the warning lights. Not sure why "Charge" is so much dimmer.
6.) Full brightness
7.) Dimmed a bit to make it tolerable
8.) Reflection from dash cluster up close to the windshield
9.) Reflection from dash cluster at head height at seated depth from windshield
10.) Overall brightness
I think between dimming the upper LED's with a tinted light diffuser and
painting the interior of the bezel to prevent glare this will turn out to be
a pretty nice modification when it's done. The old lights were just so dim.
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to see if there's some improvements that can be done.
Well, it will need some revisions, but the first place I put them was the top.
This made the cluster much brighter. So bright, in fact, that I had to turn
the overall brightness down.
I'm thinking I'll sand down that green filter (leaving it in with the LED's turns
the entire cluster face this weird bluish hue) and paint it with a coat or two
of VHT Niteshades and see what it does. I also want to paint just the interior
of the black surround bezel a matte black color to prevent so much reflection
onto the windshield. You'll see it in the pictures. I took one up close and one
about face level.
I tried replacing all bulbs with LED's, but this didn't turn out to be a good
plan as they bled over into each other. I think in the end I replaced all of
the smaller bulbs with LED's and just replace the big ones on the side and
the three on the top with LED's. All of the rest are the standard bulbs.
Picture numbers:
1.) LED's in the turn signal.
2.) LED CEL.
3.) Shows how much it lights up the needles (before I couldn't see my fuel level when it was dark)
4.) Parking brake LED
5.) All of the warning lights. Not sure why "Charge" is so much dimmer.
6.) Full brightness
7.) Dimmed a bit to make it tolerable
8.) Reflection from dash cluster up close to the windshield
9.) Reflection from dash cluster at head height at seated depth from windshield
10.) Overall brightness
I think between dimming the upper LED's with a tinted light diffuser and
painting the interior of the bezel to prevent glare this will turn out to be
a pretty nice modification when it's done. The old lights were just so dim.
photo 1.jpgphoto 2.jpgphoto 3.jpgphoto 4.jpgphoto 5.jpgphoto 11.jpgphoto 21.jpgphoto 31.jpgphoto 41.jpgphoto 51.jpg
I don't think you need quite that many, but two of my smaller LED's didn't work so it's good to have backup
I could use that aluminum foil tape. I appreciate the ideas
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