Climate Control (yet again, I know) Options

[Kasper]

I've finally decided to change the lights in my CC unit, so I get on here and remember seeing posts about this in the past. It seems now that I can't really find anything useful on this topic anymore. All I can find is people saying, " No it's not #74 led, it might be 10mm, but I'm not sure if that will work." So what am I supposed to do? I don't want to buy led's if no one knows whether they'll work or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Zimluura]

hehe, i'm the one that's always saying i'm not sure if the 10mm ones will work. and in work, i mean fit the cc-unit's sockets perfectly. i have a spare toyota bulb and a 10mm led and they look the same. but i haven't had cause to remove my cc-unit again to make sure, maybe when the weather gets more moderate. when i did my cc-unit the 10mm leds were't available.

moving on - the only possible prefabricated led that will fit the cc-unit's back-lighting is the 10mm. when i did mine i inserted num74 led electronics into a bored out toyota bulb-base. other people have soldered leds and resistors onto their cc-unit's circuit-board. and others have used color filters with the original bulbs (first removing the green condoms) to get the color they want.

when next i take out my cc-unit i'll give the 10mm led a shot to see if it fits perfectly, and if so see if it lights up things as well as the hack-job num74 leds i have in there now. but in any case i think the next thing i'll try is to put smt-tower num194 leds into the toyota bases i have. that could make it light up really bright.

i have a big (like 1mb) html guide i wrote to the cc-unit mod that i can send you if you like, just pm me your email address. for a month i was taking it out and disassembling it so much that i wanted to write down all my notes in case i needed to do it later.

good luck

[Kasper]

That would be great actually. I've been wanting to do this for awhile now, but never got myself to actually look into it. I remembered reading how some people just replaced their current bulbs, so that's what I was looking for now. But all I found was topics on wiring a new circuit board in the cc-unit, which I would prefer not to do. Anyways I'm sending my email to you for that guide thing. Thanks