LED Dashlight Conversion

[Nezar86]

So today I took apart my entire dash, which was a pain. After getting it completely off to replace with new LED bulbs I bought online I came to realise I bought the completely wrong ones, and I also need to solder them in. I was just wondering what the best bulbs are to buy and where to get them? As they're not the regular LED Dash bulbs?

 

[BoatNonce]

PLCC2 SMDs, get white ones, they're just better.

 

[Drc12369]

Can anyone here do this on a 200? No way I'm touching it myself :smile:

 

[loggyboy]

White for sure, happy to assist anyone local doing these, ive done 3 sets now.
And added a colour change to the rev gauge linked to the shift LED.

 

[Drc12369]

Can you do the whole farm radio, climate, monitor etc? And can you do 200's? Where's local?

 

[loggyboy]

I'm in basingstoke, and yes I did all climate etc, but never on a 197/200.
Check out crazyleds if you want a serviced option https://crazyleds.co.uk/

 

[Drc12369]

It has Megane 2 on their website for £99 which looks like the same layout as a Clio mk3. I'm assuming that's them doing it for you. Can't see an address anywhere though? I'd do it at that price too. Any idea what their works like?

 

[Usr117063]

@loggyboy
That looks spot on! Just needs the black trim now :smile:

What type of led are they? I want to do the whole car now, are all the window switches and various all the same type?

 

[Drc12369]

Yeah crazy LEDs are up in county Durham.. woe

 

[Usr117063]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but how do the lettering/numbers work on the milage and other displays when you change teh back drop? If i wanted it to be green with black lettering, will i only have to change the backdrop leds?
Like this

 

[Usr117063]

PLCC2 SMDs

Sorry is this for all of them?

 

[BoatNonce]

All of the ones in the dash cluster, I'm not sure about the rest. Think the window switches are 3mm LEDs though.

 

[loggyboy]

@loggyboy
That looks spot on! Just needs the black trim now :smile:
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What type of led are they? I want to do the whole car now, are all the window switches and various all the same type?

It varies.
For the 182, the Dash is 10x 3528 style, and about 12-16 (IIRC) for the climate controls, but varies if you want to change colours for whats turned on (will upload a picture of mine as I use a mix of white red and blue.) The climate and speedo digital gauges have an orange filter, but a blade soon scrapes this off, and using white leds creates a cool blue tint thru the lcd. The central locking, electric windows etc all use small legged Leds. The central clock/ratio display uses regular bulbs which are harder to get decent change to as they use an orange filter to get the standard colour, replacing with LEDs can make it look crap as they are too directional. I dont have that display anymore (installed a phone for datalogging there instead).

 

[loggyboy]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but how do the lettering/numbers work on the milage and other displays when you change teh back drop? If i wanted it to be green with black lettering, will i only have to change the backdrop leds?
Like this

You would need to use green LEDs and scrap the orange filter to make it white.

 

[Usr117063]

Much appreciated. This is another thing to add to the list