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...

[redtcel]

you could be creative and do it in the piece of the dash but thats more work!!!
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You could yeah. I imagine there would be a good amount of glare off the plastic piece in front of the gauges though.
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yeah i wish i could say i get glare but i dont, cause there is no plastic peice in front of my guages. i bought it like that, and when i am driving down the road at high speeds with my windows down (air conditioning is for sissies) my needles move. so i am usually doing about 5 under what my spastic speedo needle says. lol unless my windows are up, then i have no problem. this will probably one of my up coming mods. the lights look awesome guys