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...

[6gcs3nz]

I had a question... how did you wire the led's?? I'm wondering if I should wire them to the cables going into the dash or just solder into the bulb holders.

BTW: Which is the positive connection and which is the negative?? I traced the bulb circuits back to the socket. The 3 main dash bulbs go into 1x into the centre socket and 1x into the right socket.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks