I'm goin LED crazy!!!

Done it all, and quite happy. Very beautiful blue all over, incldn: Courtesy lights, overheads, any orginal green LED was changed to blue, All internal dash lights but the really dinky ones (e.g. the turn signals, trans postion lights....ect.), including the ingition, cigerette lighter, sunroof switch, cruise switch, defrost switch, seat memory switch, master window switches (it's how i screwed myself by trying to fix the full auto down for the drivers side ), blues in all the symbols for climate control *hard, need to use tinfoil to get more internal reflection, and painting it with silver aluminum like does NOT work and actually made it worse then the foil, and it takes a bit of work to get it so the bulb doesn't just make the floor switch, and air recycle switch brighter then the others*, External door key light on drivers side, ashtray- none cuz there's no reason for me to go in there, basically you name the spot, i've got it there.

Places I don't recommend them:
Glove box- way too hard to get the light to refract so you can still see what's inside, so it stays dim mostly, but super bright in one spot.
Trunk- you won't be able to see anything I even stuck 4 bulbs in there hoping it'd help.
Dome main courtesy- leave the area to dimmly lit, and hard as hell to find something if you drop it unless it's litterally pitch black out
and anything with those bulbs that are less then 1/4 inch behind the gauges, it's really hard to get work in there, and to lacking in space to get a resistor their, and no it won't work if you link wires around to it, unless you do it for every bulb, and every bulb is seperately triggered buy someing in the car, say like being in 4 gear as opposed to 3rd.

Thing I recommend: heh- really wish I could keep some of this to myself to be extra unique, but i'm always glad to help you all out here.
If you switch the green stock LED's to some other color, cut the tips of with something like a dremmel disc cutter, then dab paint ( i used silver, but it doesn't matter ). the reason you do this is so you 1, aren't driving a big blue ball down the road....as these things seriously are bright, and 2, so you don't blind yourself or any other on lookers driving beside you as I did notice at some angles it severly for a moment, could blind the person in that other lane, 3, you'll never be able to play a game of cat and mouse again if you don't since if you duck into a dark alley you'll stick out like a sore tumb as they stay on when ever the car is running.

Use tinfoil or something else to get more internal reflection in areas where a piece of plastic is used to deflect the light around.

use eletrical tape, or something similar to keep the tips of the + & - end of the LED from touching where needed.

soildering is a simple and easily reversible process as opposed to cutting of something, as it T-Taping in some situations. ( I just soildered everything ) In the door lights, I soildered them to the contacts for the regular bulbs then aimed them properly (give the sweetest glow to my rims when I have my two front doors open.

The LED's work great as undercar lights for many reason as long as you can protect them well enough. They don't use nearly the energy Neon does, they will virtually never burn out and neon does, you can leave them on for weeks and not drain your battery at all, they are very discrete and you don't have to worry about smashing them into something if your ride is droped, you can use them as wheel back lights, and well, virtually everying.


Not sure what else, but I know there is more. If you have any Q's feel free to ask, I've tried lights everywhere. And the really great ones are the UV ones....on a white set of gauges that with blue...they have this amazing look, but I opted to stay with blue, much easier on the eyes.

I did this for about 3 days straight going through every bulb, but the time was well worth it, as I'm VERY SATISFIED. And the compliments never stop. I'll post some picks of the final look when I stop working 15 hour days next week. Till then..

L*8*ah
SID :2cool:

PS- All these ideas are protected by patents, copyrights, etc.....and don't try it at home unless you light lawsuits.



HA- Just Kidding

Ur box was full sh0ck3d

Reply to sh0ck3d's question on the climate control, clock, & bose fac. stereo. His PM box was full. HEHE

Well, for the clock...there's pretty much nothing you can do easily right now. The easiest thing to change the clock from icky greenish to some other color is to replace it with some version from a new type accord or such since they've got a bit more bluish clock.

Climate control, same deal applies. But this time there is no replacement for it.

As for your bose unit, sure something can be done to it. But it involves disecting it and replacing those bulbs one by one. So in the end you'll probably be able to switch the numbers for preset buttons and such, but you'll still be stuck with icky greenish for anything with a readout type deal. But, if the alarm and clock can be done, the radio readout can also be done.

Although, note to self, chaging them would be able to be done if it also can be done to say....a standard red style alarm clock. I guess as a test subject I can visit walmart and pick up some cheap alarm to play guinnea pig.

Thanks for the tip on the bulbs. Basically I was going for something where it'd produce no heat, and if one day the terrible tragedy came around that I leave my dome lights on, I wouldn't have to worry. Even in humor I could leave'm on just to hear people tell me I forgot them on.

Anyway though, I'll let you know what I find out about the clock and such. I'll gladly spend 5 bucks or so to disect one.

Till then,
SID :2cool:

DrEemAr gUy said:

Just one thing that i need to know, how did you insert the led into the headlight housing? I would like to put some kind of blue light (either led or strobe) into the high beam area. Thanks!

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Just do a search on the thread, or check in the DIY section of the forum for ( LED Headlight ) and you'll come up with how it's done. I know Koji's done it, his was the first one I read before.

For speedo lights, that's easy to swap the bulbs to LED's depending on your approach. One way is just to unplug all the main bulbs used to back light the gauges, and use the ones that shine infront. Take those and swap them to whichever color you'd choose. A second approach, and unrecommended is to remove the front bulbs, and replace the rears with LED's. But this will leave you without being able to see your needles and a very dim backlighting. Third, combind the two, but it'll leave with the same effect as the first.

I decided on none of those and went with reverse indiglo gauges. One thing I must add, if you have reverse gauges and you swap the front lights in the instrument panel with UV-LED's....it gives ya a sweet arse affect at night. I like it, but I prefer a cooler blue. :werd:

SID :2cool:

Ok, here's the best I can do for pics right now. It's deadly foggy here and that's why you see the shimmer from the flash. Anyway, someone please give me some info on how to take pics of lights during the night so it doesn't look so not there.

But these first two pics are in the same spot, one with flash on, the other without. The other pics are just ramdom ones I guess. You'll also get to see my broken master window switch
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the following one shows the interior key illum as blue instead of green

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This one you can kind of see the blue light coming from the window switches, but not at all coming from the memory seat buttons.
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Switched out cruise buttons here, and gauges. So dim, serious help me out on how to take night pics. plz.
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That's about it, i'll get better pics when I learn more. Sorry about the :****: ness of these for now though.

SID