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...

[946thGenGT]

Looks pretty good 6gcs3nz.

And I like yours too doGGy, what exactly are you using there? Looks like you have some ultra-bright white bulbs behind the gauges with a blue light underneath the gauges somehow?

[doGGy]

I dont have this lightning anymore Cuz it was like 2 years before

About bulbs, i used Philips Ultra White bulbs, and about front light, i used small neon light in front of my gauges. Just cutted small line to fit the neon, in front of it i made small wall out of plastic (you can actually see it in this picture). and thats it better then any leds

Looks pretty good 6gcs3nz.

And I like yours too doGGy, what exactly are you using there?  Looks like you have some ultra-bright white bulbs behind the gauges with a blue light underneath the gauges somehow?
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This post has been edited by doGGy: Nov 24, 2004 - 12:51 PM