dome light, redded out! Options

[KOWABUNGA]

i dunno if anyone else has done this but i thought i would share.. i just took a small flat head screw driver, popped out the dome light lense, took sum candy apple red paint and put a couple coats on the smooth side.. then clear coated it and put it back in the dome light opening. the light was kinda pink, becuz i didnt put enough coats on.. i didnt have enough paint.. so today i bought more but i tinted the inside becuz i had a really nice finish on the other side and didnt wanna ruin it.. it turned out really well! i ended up with a nice solid red, much like neon underbody, but in the dome light! its pretty tight. i dont have pics since i dont have a digital camera anymore.. but its really easy to do

[dustin15brown]

does it lose it's functionality though?

[Volks]

I have done this to mine, I just painted the inside first off though. I also get a nice darkish red light. I actually find its easier to red a map or text at night with the red light, because you eyes dont have to adjust so much to the light comming on and then adjust again to the light going off

[Clipsetuner]

I had my own fix to this, I used the stock dome light bulb, and add about 20 leds in there, so I have blue LED's and stock white bulb and made a toggle switch bettwen them.

DTE

[FSX_Celica94GT]

got any pics of that clipsetuner? what kind of bulb goes in the dome anyway?

[Clipsetuner]

I dont have any pics off hand, on my other comp. but I made one for MJM4Soccer, something like that for his SN.









DTE

[Zimluura]

when i was first doing my dome light i made a series of 3 THC^3 leds all pointing downward and soldered them into a Ba9s base. when i opened the door it was like "damn that's allot of light".

the problem is, i think, that my resistor wasn't rated with a high enough wattage. it's resistance was good, but i think it couldn't disipate the heat so well. the light would always turn on, then a few seconds later it would turn off, then back on. because it stayed on for longer when running off the batttery. might try to re-wire that with a half watt resistor instead of a quarter. but anyway, i'm getting off topic.

what i really mean to say is that you can probably wire up your own Ba9s LED fabrication with 3 leds (of varying color perhaps, as the translucent lens in the dome light will probably blend them all together a bit) and get a accented colored light that is still just as bright as (if not brighter than) the normal one.