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Hi, i was just wondering if anyone know how to change the LED lights on the dashboard, really would love to have green LED's as that would be the matching lights for my interior and color of my car (green/black)

First, tilt your steering wheel all the way up. There's a little panel behind your steering wheel where your ignition and dimmer switch are. Take that off (there are finger holes on the bottom, so just carefully pop it off. Be sure to unplug the connector for the dimmer switch). Now you need to remove the gauge cluster cowl. Tilt your steering wheel all the way down now. There are two bolts immediately behind what you just removed, and two more holding the plastic cowl to the dash cowl. Remove all of them. Then there's gonna be 4 more bolts to actually remove the gauge cluster from the dash. Two on the bottom and two on the top. Once you remove those, gingerly remove the gauge cluster (it takes some creative angles) while unplugging the cables from behind it. Then, you can remove the main three bulbs for the gauge (they're the biggest ones, you won't be confused). Then just replace those with 194 LEDs. Some LEDs are have a polarity, so they have to be pushed in a specific way (you have a 50/50 chance of getting it right the first time, so just install all of them, push the cables back in, and test it out and reverse any of the bulbs that appear dim). Then just re-attach everything and you're good to go!

One thing though - these cluster LEDs/bulbs will not work if dimmer is disconnected, so keep that in mind, might save you a hour of two and some nerves

Type/size of these LEDs is usually T10 or W5W, aside from 194 that HectorTheRican said. When buying LEDs, be aware of the illumination angle (must be 120° or more) and power. I bought a cheap white LEDs, that have only 45° of illumination angle and run on just 0.3 W of power, now the clusters are barely visible...
From what I heard, these are the most apropriate:
-High power LEDs with 120° illumination angle and run on about 1.5 W.


Since you are from Norway, google SpreeLED. This guy is from UK has great LED kits for 6gen.

Forgot to mention to reconnect dimmer



Go to this link: http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/sto...mini-wedge.html

Should be the 4th group down, select WLED-xHP5. Once there, you can select from white, red, green, blue, orange, and purple. They're a cheap, 360 degree illumination bulb and they work perfectly. I have red ones in my gauges right now and I wouldn't trade them for any other bulb/color.