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Guide to Changing Interior Dash lights
- Thread starter Klang1.6
- Start date
Polo + Micra
ok ill try my best here.
once you have got the dials you will see there are clips holding the front plastic on.
once that is off you will need to remove the needles, i did this by hooking a piece of wire under either side of the center bit and pulling.
then turn them over and remove the 8 torx 10 screws holding it together. once they are out the dials will come apart.
once apart you will be able to see the circuit board like this.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.thomas4/pics/1107992803__pcb.jpg
i have circuled the leds that need to be changed.
take you soldering iron and some thing to prise them of a little.
heat up the one side of the soldered part and lift with priseing tool, once its lifted heat up the other side and it should just fall off the circuit board.
repeat for all leds.
once they are off the area where thay have been removed will look like this.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.thomas4/pics/1107992803__oldsol.jpg
you now need to put a small amount of solder back on the board like this.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.thomas4/pics/1107993029__newsol.jpg
now putting the new leds back on. you do this by placeing the led on top of the solder you have put on the board and heating the solder and apply a little pressure to the led while the solder is hot. !"£ REMBERING TO PUT THE SIDE WITH THE NOTCH MISSING FROM THE CORNER TOWARDS THE K PRINTED ON THE BOARD £"!
once all 10 are done just put back together and try them out
Nippy white cup
good guide m8! Might do this myself...were are you getting the leds from m8? Any pics of what it looks like when done?
Chris
Polo + Micra
Silly question but if the LEDs are white how come the dials are blue? Did you do anything else?
Nippy white cup
Any way of keeping the needles red?
Chris
cheers. Ill get both blue and white leds and see how they come out with my dash. want to do a fair few of the illuminated stuff so itll be a bit of a hobby of mine until uni!
also got to find some stick on chrome trim (dont worry, Im not doing it chav style, just trust me
)Yeh, Ill see if it works! I dont see how it shouldnt, just depending on where I place them (you said the white ones behind the trip computer screen made the surround blue, right?) Hopefully thatll work on my non renaultsport
Do you tihnk the same sized LEDs will work with other backlit displays on the car?
Yeh, Ill see what it turns out like when Ive placed them
You said the trip compter screen display went blue with white letters when the white led was behind it? Just hope that works on my 1.2 16v!
You reckon that the same sized LEDs will fit where the other backlit illumated areas of the car are? ie clock, buttons!
Polo + Micra
the clock has TINY 1.2w filament lamps in them rather than leds
and i dont know what is in the rest of the dash(mines on a 1.6 16v so it has the same dials in it)
http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/default.php?cPath=44_65these are the led equvilant of the ones behind the clock
[Edited by Dink on 6/27/2005 8:48:57 PM]
Ah, cool - will look nice then - even better when my interior doesnt look like someone has spilt right green paint down it
I know a shop that supplie lamps like that. Dont know what to do though as my interior bulb is actually green! but i guess my clock can be blue or green, with a blue/white dash. makes a change!
