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OMG after all that.

So now I am back to my record of not ONE of the many packets that I have sent out going missing.

People need to have a little faith!

By a twist of fate my packets didn't end up going out till today anyway as I had given them to my wife to post yesterday and she ended up missing the post office.

So panic over and I can send that kit to the next deserving customer!


Just to confirm.

ALL PACKETS HAVE BEEN POSTED!

I can vouch for Julians work...he's installed two kits for me now. Previous kit was blue led/dash kit into my celica SR and then a white led kit into my celica GT.

I don't often come onto this forum but thought I'd give you all a heads up on how good the kits look

John - uk

Thanks for sharing the pics John. :-)

We will have to do some more when we fit your white clock filter too.

The new filter gel does the trick nicely as can be seen in this pic below of a skyline R33 climate control and clock that I have just converted.

Everything shown here is normally green....the white looks slightly grey in this shot as the skyline dims this illumination when the lights are turned on but its pure white at full brightness.



This post has been edited by Spree: May 28, 2011 - 5:07 AM

hey spree, just wanted to let you know my kit came in the mail today; only took like a week. You are the man!

so idk what im doing wrong but none of the leds will light up. ive rotated them 180 degrees and still nothing

What part are we talking about?

I take it you have started with the ignition ring and then moved on to the instrument cluster?

Have you fitted the instrument cluster bulbs direct into the standard bases or kept them in the wedge bases?

You need to make sure the pins sit right as this can cause problems.

Sometimes it is easy to rotate the bulbs 360 degrees rather then 180 so you end up putting them in the same way.

You should also test all the bulbs on a 9v battery so that you can put to rest any worries regarding faulty bulbs.

Just to let you know that bulb failures are very rare with these bulbs..

Thers a few ideas to get you started!

they are still in the wedge case. but even when i tried to retest the regular bulbs they didnt light up either

fixed it

So I got to install the gauges for now and took a picture under a towel, now off to work to see snoop dogg =D

Patience pays off, got my white kit today! Cant wait to install it Thanks!

PM'd for order

Here is a pic of the filter to make the green clock illumination white next to my blue dials.

I am going to fit white led's in the dials today to show how the clock matches up against them but this pic below is good for indicating the 'white-ness' if the clock. There is a subtle purple tinge around it but the actual illumination of the numbers is white and this is what you see when you see it in the flesh.

I feel the need to share this as I have already had one person freak out when they got a pink filter with his white kit and then start spouting all kinds of nonsense about how it would make his clock orange.... (Roll eyes)




This post has been edited by Spree: Jun 4, 2011 - 6:41 AM

Ok.

I refined the filter today and have achieved a better result. As you can see no purple bleeding through now and even whiter plus the light level matches the main clocks better. These white filters have been a nightmare to be honest!

I will send anybody that is not happy who has bought the white kit the newest version of the filter and I will be contacting them anyway regarding this next week.

Got the gauge cluster installed today, as well as the clock and ignition ring. Here are some pics not great quality..







In the pictures, the clock looks a little more colorful than it does in person, you can still tell its not white though.. i kinda like it (its not green haha)

Hi,

Looks good man. I did make a bit of an error with the clocks filters I sent out as I double layered them and this causes the overly pink tint.

If you remove one of the layers from the filter it will produce a white light.

I will also send you a whole new filter next week dude if you want one as I have nailed it now with the last attempt?( One layer if that pink gel and another layer of a tint to reduce the light output and mask the pink gel from the front)

I have my st205 back at home now so have had time to play with these things again. :-)

Julian.

This post has been edited by Spree: Jun 5, 2011 - 3:43 AM

does anybody have a good suggestion as to how to make the speedometer needle red to go with the white LED dash kit?...perhaps a thin layer of red nail polish?

That'll work




That's actually what i plan to do too
Im probably gonna head to the craft store and grab some candy red "Testors" paint. People use that for redding out tails so i figure it'd do the same for the needles. its only a couple bucks.
Nail polish might work, if you try lemme know how it goes.

This post has been edited by smkr3w: Jun 5, 2011 - 10:44 PM

I wouldn't use nail polish, you with have uneven coats and you will see streaks

I am planning to test this kit on my st205 dials as this looks far more interesting then painting the needles. If they are good then I may approach the company as a supplier for them.

http://www.xtuners.com/catalog/product_inf...r-needles-p-494

Here is some needle paint on ebay though if thats what you want to do...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RED-1oz-Needle-Paint...=item53dcfc162d

Just ordered a set of blues.