blue dash convertion

[dodgyracer]

Hiya, i just wanted to check that i have got the right idea about changing my dash lights from green to blue, basically if i take the dash to pieces and the heater control panel, remove the green film and put blue bulbs in the dash should look blue? is this right?

[...joe]

pretty much, do a search as this has been covered by many people so you should find some good tips.

some bad pics of mine:





some say its a bit chavvy but i think its better than the green. did think about doing plain white? might look cool?

[baz_the_man62]

just emember to check ur leds are in the right way round or they wont light up.. and they need a resistor

[Malloy]

Sorry to hi jack the thread, but.........

How did you get inside the heater controls when you made the change from green to blue.  My bulb has gone and I spent ages trying to find away to gain access to it, and failed?  Did you have to break the grey backing when it came off?

Plus, do you know if you can buy replacement bulbs to fit inside the dash switches, as none of mine seem inclined to work at the minute?

Thanks

[...joe]

if none of your switch lights work then you have a bigger problem. more likely it'll be the headlamp switch. there is a blue/grey wire that feeds the illumination for them so check that out as well.
i bought 12v l.e.d's with resistors attached fromn www.ultraleds.com for all my switches and the same for the dash ones but soldered them into the original holders. the heater panel just pulls apart with some force but its easy to damage it. run a sharp knife round the joining faces. then it should be obvious how to get the old bulb out and solder a new one in.

[rubjonny]

you have to split the rear casing off the heater surround ideally.  The way I did it was to chop the plug off the back of the surround with a hacksaw, pull out the 5mm bulb and fit an LED in the hole.  Then soldered the resistor & wiring to the plug so It plugged straight into my car.
I aslo fitted a second LED on the right side of the surround so the light pattern was more even

[Malloy]

Thanks for the info,

I'm reasonably confident that it's issolated to the bulbs, when I bought the car in Februrary it was just the heater controls, and headlight switch that weren't illuminated.  Unforutnately I pulled the dash out to change a bulb, which finished off the fog light switch, and has left the rear window switch very dim. 

Guess i'll have to have another go at the heater controls, perhpas I'll source a second one first as surly I'll suceed with one. 

Had anybody reading this got a spare MFA vacuum sensor that plugs into the back of 160 mph single plug dashboards.  A mokey has managed to destroy mine and snap the feed that the pipe attaches to

[rubjonny]

i take it you've played with the dimmer slider on the headlight switch?

[Judderi]

Have a look in my project section. I did a small write up there. Its about page 6 i think.

[VeeDubGTI16v]

how do you wire up the neon strips in the footwell to go with them





joke