Got Blue Leds In My Speedo And Rev Counter

[guidom15]

Got my Dash LEDS replaced with Blue ones

http://my107.blogspot.com/2009/03/blue-led...do-and-rev.html

Guidom

[Lister2020]

I would consider doing that myself.

[KevinKevin]

Looks amazing. I'd probably edit it to have white LEDs and a black background just like my new Focus.

[Lister2020]

How difficult is it to do?

[jim shady]

I would love to have my lights in that colour.

Not got the ability to do it myself though..........

[Jan van de Wouw]

How difficult is it to do?

The entire speedo has to come out of the car, then be dismantled

to the bare PCB and 5 PLCC SMD LEDs will have to be swapped out.

It's about 2 hours of work when you get handy on it...

We've got a guy on our Dutch forum who does this modification

and I've taken it upon me to redo OEM radio's in blue:

This involves abit more work (about 3 hours), since there ar 45 "1206" SMD LEDs that need to come out

and to get to 12 of them the dispaly needs to be removed, including it's 47 pins that need to be desoldered...

I also "do" the light adjuster:

(don't mind the color: blue is quite hard to photograph properly; the

radio and adjuster are the same color as thee speedo you see above)

[Lister2020]

In other words I'll never be doing it

[guidom15]

How difficult is it to do?

The entire speedo has to come out of the car, then be dismantled

to the bare PCB and 5 PLCC SMD LEDs will have to be swapped out.

It's about 2 hours of work when you get handy on it...

We've got a guy on our Dutch forum who does this modification

and I've taken it upon me to redo OEM radio's in blue:

This involves abit more work (about 3 hours), since there ar 45 "1206" SMD LEDs that need to come out

and to get to 12 of them the dispaly needs to be removed, including it's 47 pins that need to be desoldered...

I also "do" the light adjuster:

(don't mind the color: blue is quite hard to photograph properly; the

radio and adjuster are the same color as thee speedo you see above)

We have talented people like Jan and EJS on our Citybug forum that are happy to swap the LEDs for the members.

Thx Jan for the explanation.

Guidom

[jim shady]

We need some people like that in the U.K.

[SJandMR2]

I love the look of the blue LEDS far to technical for me to do tho :( I wear blue shades instead :P

[yazkaygo]

how do you do that on your little temp controls?

[jim shady]

Look here, this is where I got my instructions from. It's an awesome site.

http://my107.blogspot.com/2007/10/change-m...sole-light.html

Sorry, not sure how to do a clicky link.

[guidom15]

Look here, this is where I got my instructions from. It's an awesome site.

http://my107.blogspot.com/2007/10/change-m...sole-light.html

Sorry, not sure how to do a clicky link.

Thank you that's my site :D :D :D

[jim shady]

It's a great source of information.

[jim shady]

I would love to get this done to my car. Anyone any idea where I could try that would replace the LED's for me?

I am located in Glasgow, Scotland.

[TonyAYGO]

I would love to get this done to my car. Anyone any idea where I could try that would replace the LED's for me?

I am located in Glasgow, Scotland.

Im driving all the way up to your land in April :)

[jim shady]

Can you replace my LEDs?

[TonyAYGO]

Can you replace my LEDs?

oops sorry, i didn't read that bit. But no sorry, i can't :(

[jim shady]

Ah well, never mind. Enjoy your visit to Bonnie Scotland.