My Custom Gauge Lighting, Just thought I'd share... Options

[946thGenGT]

So I took a look at the how-to on replacing the gauge lights. I proceeded to order some LED's off eBay, they arrived, so I installed them... wasn't all that impressed, they made the gauges look sort of blurry and weren't bright at all. So I decided I'd try a different route. I drilled 3 holes in the bottom of the bezel and popped the LED's in. I just wired it into the bezel itself 'cause I didn't really want to splice into the harness or anything else. I just did it this afternoon so I haven't seen it at night yet but from what I can tell inside my garage it looks pretty good. I now have no lights behind the gauges themselves but the LED's I installed are UV so I'm hoping it makes the gauges glow pretty nice. Here's some pics:



The lights look blue in the picture but they're not really at all blue.


I thought I had measured the spacing out pretty good but as you can see the rightmost LED is a little too far to the right... I'll live with it for now but if it starts to annoy me later I'll probably fix it. Let me know what you guys think...

[tim86]

wow i like the look of them... but yea id maybe put a couple stock bulbs in to light em up a little better... looks like youd get used to it after awhile though, also if u put that plastic piece infront of the bulbs, maybe the tops would light up better and itd reflect better on them, which means you might not need the stock bulbs? interesting man... i like what you did a lot