Thread: started changing the interor lighting to leds, and cleaned up the trunk a bit

well i finally started the switch to leds on my interior, so far ive got the gauges done, one lock switch, and the fog light switch. gotta order some more leds now lol. This is deffinately much brighter than stock, and i love it so far.

Heres a quick shot of the trunk after i tucked all the wiring


Heres the lock switch i got done


Fog light switch


and the gauges

ordered some blue leds off ebay (search blue led 194) which is how i found them, and they slide right in the twist lock connectors that hold the old bulbs. as far as the gauge face itself, you have to pull the cluster out, pull the front cover off that goes over the inlay/needles. Pull the needs off carefully, and pull the gauge face off. It is just held on with glue and it takes a little work to get it off. after its removed, get some goo gone and remove the glue on the back. after the glue was gone, i took some 320 grit sandpaper and went over the entire surface of it (minus warning indicators) until you could hold it up to the light and not see red through it. after all the red is gone, reassemble everything and you should be good to go.

jteske: im not sure what your asking, but my gauges are pretty clear and bright if thats what your asking.
cameron: no the switches were a little more involved, i pulled the switches apart and disassembled them. On the bottom of each led youll see two posts that theyre soldered to. I plugged the switches in to the harness when they were still torn apart and used a voltmeter to see which pin supplied the voltage when the lights were switched on. Next i desoldered the old leds, set up my new resistor, and led setup, and glued them in place. after i found where they would fit and everything would go back together i ran the power side of the led to the posative pin on the switch connector that you checked power for earlier, and the neg. side of the led to the other spot on the switch. I will be doing the other switches tommorow if radioshack got more leds in, and ill take some pictures to better describe it

and doug, it should be a plug and play twist lock connector on the shift selector, so you should be able to use one of the same bulbs the cluster used if you had some left over ( i think theyre the same size bulb but not posative since i havent done the shift selector yet)

ok cool and i just wanted to show you what blud led interior lights look like i have them in my car and i like them alot i think i pent a total of 15 bukcs for all of them. i need to paint my jams really bad i hate that green blah

just went and threw in my extra bulb in my shift socket its the 194 bulb, just plug n play

if your gonne get more, id a brighter one for the gevr selector, the ones i have lit it up, but the (p, 1) arent lit which doesnt bother me considering i had the bulb anyways, and it was burnt out before so its still better than it was lol. but if your gonna order them, might vs well get some brighter ones if you want all the gears to show up.

looks like theyll work to me, and there is just one. not sure if theres more on the 97, i wouldnt think so but mine had one right in the middle on the underside

that should be more than enough, you may be able to do some sanding on the underside of the shift indicator panel also so the light will come through better, it was dark, and really cold though so i didnt take to close of a look lol

let me know how it goes, hopefully radioshack has some moer led so i can finish my switches, and get a more detailed write up