Dash lights

[manic1080]

I want to change the dull orange dash lights, speedo , revs , and the console etc .... from orange to blue or white ...
Who has attempted this ? and how easy and what bulbs am i looking at ?

cheers

 

[W3JLT]

They are little surface mount LEDs behind the dials, i remember seeing a post on here a while ago where someone had changed theirs to blue, looked really good. cant remember who it was though.

 

[manic1080]

The thought of bringin my dash to pieces scares me . thats the main problem . Would be nice for someone to guide me through it.

 

[clio__chris]

think it may have been dink?

 

[Dink]

nah nothing to see here

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.thomas4/pics/1107969585__white.jpg

 

[manic1080]

Thats the stuff , can someone point me in the direction of where i can get the bulbs please . And do you reckon blue would be hard to look at ? the white looks nice and clean though .

 

[Dink]

http://www.rapidelectronics.co.uk/rkmain.asp?PAGEID=80010&CTL_CAT_CODE=30316&STK_PROD_CODE=M29417&XPAGENO=2leds here

i have still got a few white ones left over if you was thinking of going blue these would be ideal for the little lcd display

 

[manic1080]

Cheers . These cover everythin ? Speedo and rev counter or jus the LCD display like u mentioned.

 

[Dink]

yeah they are all the same leds. (2x speedo&rev 1x temp&fuel and 4xdisplay so you need 10 altogether)

white white ones on the lcd display give you better contrast than blue ones would

 

[manic1080]

Yeah cheers Dink ,
Im thinkin ..

Blue in speedo&rev

White everywhere else as the 05 model has lcd fuel and temp

Or just white everywhere including dials.


Should look good

 

[Dink]

ah well i might have got the amounts wrong for the fuel and temp for the 05 model.

what colour are the needles on your speedo, rev counter?. i had to get some white ones instead of the orange ones

[Edited by Dink on 4/12/2005 12:52:42 AM]

 

[xtreme_boi]

I got an 05 model Clio. But will this be easy a DIY, or is it tricky stuff?

 

[Dink]

i did mine myself.

its not easy as you are not supposed to solder smt stuff by hand, but if you are careful it can be done.

 

[richy92]

How easy is it to get to the leds ??

How does it all come apart.

 

[Dink]

well you have got to take the dast top off to get them out.

once you have got them out its easy to take them apart

 

[Rorrie]

Quote: Originally posted by Dink on 12 April 2005

i did mine myself.

its not easy as you are not supposed to solder smt stuff by hand, but if you are careful it can be done.

sorry, what is smt stuff? and how come?



Is it quite easy to see what to do when you take the dash off?



Cheers

Rorrie

 

[Dink]

smt = surface mount technology

here is an idea of the size
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.thomas4/pics/led.jpg

yeah once the dash is off getting the dials out is easy, the hardest part was getting the needles off. you need a torx T10 driver to take them apart

 

[dwj100uni]

holy crap theyre tiny!!

 

[rory182]

i dont trust my soldering ability... wouldnt wanna muck it up cause if you knacker a contact something will probably never work again.

 

[Rorrie]

you have to solder those!!! bugger that for a bag of laughs!

 

[Dink]

i thought that pic might put some people off

 

[manic1080]

Bet if you took it to a garage or somethin for this to be done the labour would rates would take the piss for the length of the job ?

 

[Dink]

you would be better of taking it to an electronics expert