Gauge cluster, lights Options

[celiracer]

I looked at the how to. And noticed when you change the color in your gauge cluster you can barely see the gauges at night? I'm wanting to change them to red. Does anyone have pics of what there's look like, and or know how to be able to change the color and still be able to see the whole cluster?

[blu94gt]

did mine with the 5-LED Matrix bulbs, worked really well there's no dark spots or anything like with some bulb changes

[celiracer]

Ya that looks really good. Any body have their gauges with red LED's for the cluster? i just got done doing my heat/cooling panel and turned out pretty good /thanks to coomer with his how-to guide. But i'm gonna be doing my gauge cluster in a couple days i'll take a pic of both and show all of ya.

blue 94 gt how come there isn't lines after 6100 RPM's? just curious

This post has been edited by celiracer: Nov 26, 2005 - 3:25 PM

[blu94gt]

blue 94 gt how come there isn't lines after 6100 RPM's? just curious

there are lines but they're hard to see since I used blue. The blue light hits the red redline area and turns it purple. If you use a red LED I'm supposing that it will show up just fine

[Starcraftjunkie]

I did mine in white. 5-led matrix bulbs. Only have a close up right now tho.

[celiracer]

U think that it would show up just as good as yours if i used red LED's? and how many of them do i need to buy? and anyone know the bulb number?

[blu94gt]

You'll need 3 bulbs, they're a 194 wedge style bulb.

CLICK HERE FOR BULBS

I think red would show up well. I can't remember who it was on here that did theirs in red and it looked pretty good.

[JoKeRkId613]

I think it was one of the girls on the site that did theirs in red. Not sure. But yeah, it'll come out just fine. I did mine in blue and the redlines do come out a dark dark blue so you can hardly see it but in the day time, you can see it perfectly. You need 3 #194 5Matrix LEDs. I got mine from autolumination.com. Very good bulbs. Removing the gauges is pretty simple. It's just a couple of screws. Common sense.The Matrix bulbs are good at distributing light evenly so it looks real good.

[CelicaZR]

I dont think red would be a good colour
to have in the cluster, because you'll
find that when you look at red for a while
your eyes will begin to hurt. This is what I found
out in my friends car when he had red neons in it.
Here is mine

[JoKeRkId613]

^damn, i never really thought about that. it could be true. howvere, neons and leds are 2 different things so maybe you can ask one of the people on the site that have the red gauges to see what they say about that. because i heard that about blue too and mine are perfect. looks like the car shoulda came with those. lol. but if anything, white would be a good alternative.

[celiracer]

I'm not wanting to go any color then red. Because all of my interior lights and interior is red. So i am hoping someone with red ones shows me a pic. I like all the other colors guys thank you. But i just really want red cause of the rest of the interior i'll show pics but i need to figure out how to change my cd player lights to red so all my interior is red. thank you

[Zimluura]

my last batch of autolumination matrixes hung over the side to o much to be inserted into the gauge cluster from behind. a little work with a file might've been able to fix them.

though this place has some cheaper matrix leds. that (when i bought them about a week ago) didn't hang over the side very much.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/1157.htm
not a very well organized site, gotta click on the 194 then search for 194 to get them.

[celiracer]

Ya, But everyone has to remember that if the lights start getting irritating all ya gotta do is use the dimer that dims the dash lights. I'm still looking for someone thats on the site that has red gauges. But havn't found yet. But thanks for the input and everything guys.

[lagos]

i think defgeph has red ones. i tried red once too, didnt really like it all that much. now i have reverse indiglo overlays and i like them more then anything else i tried.

[celiracer]

Ya but Lagos do you have any other interior color in your car? my acsent color is red and black in my interior. So i'm doing everything red. And i'm thinking im gonna do the gauges red and then the RPM and Spadometer lines are gonna be a white LED. i think that would look good.

[xRaveNx]

i think macavely has red or orange-ish looking colors in his, ask him?

[blu94gt]

Ya but Lagos do you have any other interior color in your car? my acsent color is red and black in my interior. So i'm doing everything red. And i'm thinking im gonna do the gauges red and then the RPM and Spadometer lines are gonna be a white LED. i think that would look good.

how do you plan on separating just the lines?

[JoKeRkId613]

my last batch of autolumination matrixes hung over the side to o much to be inserted into the gauge cluster from behind. a little work with a file might've been able to fix them.

though this place has some cheaper matrix leds. that (when i bought them about a week ago) didn't hang over the side very much.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/1157.htm
not a very well organized site, gotta click on the 194 then search for 194 to get them.

Yeah. Mines wouldn't even fit through the back. Had to put em in through the front and attach them to the socket in the back... I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem tho except me and you.

how do you plan on separating just the lines?

i would love to know how you're planning on doing this too. lol.

[celiracer]

this is a picture of borghe's interior. He used all white LED's and wraps all the numbers in a red film to make them red not very good picture but you get what i mean Let me know what you guys think. I'll be starting on it this coming weekend.

[Verde97]

how do you plan on separating just the lines?

i would love to know how you're planning on doing this too. lol.

Me too.

[celiracer]

When I PM'd him he told me what i do is take all three bulbs and buy them as white LED's or just white, then you take all the numbering and lines that you want red and put a red film around it. Or in the back of the cluster. That picture that i posted of his. kinda showes ya guys what its gonna look like. When i do it this week i'll post some picks of my air/heat control that i made red. and my gauges. havn't started the gauges will saterday.

[celiracer]

Well starting on my gauges. getting the things done how borgche did his i hope they turn out good and will post pics if it turns out good.

[celiracer]

Well after about 3 hours yesterday of trying out my custom work. It failed. I thought maybe the hyper white LED's i bought would work. But turned out like crap. So I possibly will have 4 Hyper white LED's for sale and i just put regular white bulbs in for now. Will post a pic of what it looks like till i get regular White LED's



Let me know what you guys think of it as of now? When i get my white LED's it will not be as DIM and will be brighter

This post has been edited by celiracer: Dec 4, 2005 - 3:09 PM

[snapshotgt]

Well after about 3 hours yesterday of trying out my custom work. It failed. I thought maybe the hyper white LED's i bought would work. But turned out like crap. So I possibly will have 4 Hyper white LED's for sale and i just put regular white bulbs in for now. Will post a pic of what it looks like till i get regular White LED's

u should post some pics...even though it might looks bad...

{edit} i see you have posted pics...any mod can delete this posting...

This post has been edited by snapshotgt: Dec 4, 2005 - 3:04 PM

[Hanyo]

i have custom brown colored lights. they use to be blue, but the bulbs aged to horrible brown....

leds will be my next atempt

[blu94gt]

that's a pretty good combo of white and red, too bad it didn't work out better

[celiracer]

Gotta get my White LED's and it will look way better. I'll be getting them put in next week. and post a pic of them for everyone.

[se99jmk]

Very important warning:

I'm driving a UK spec (nn-import) '97 reg Celica.
After 3 different sets of bulbs, all in the wrong sizes, I found out that for my dash i needed 3x 501, NOT 194 like everyone else. Make sure you check that before you order.

[blaque_6thGen]

dude, red will be fine! there are so many cars that have red guages/radio/climate control lights in them stock. my mom's suzuki and my ex's grand-am both have red lighting...they won't bother your eyes. in fact it looks pretty slick. coomer used to have his guages red, but i guess he changed them back because he took that pic off.

[blu94gt]

dude, red will be fine! there are so many cars that have red guages/radio/climate control lights in them stock. my mom's suzuki and my ex's grand-am both have red lighting...they won't bother your eyes. in fact it looks pretty slick. coomer used to have his guages red, but i guess he changed them back because he took that pic off.

grand am's and pontiac's are actually orange because it's easier on the eyes. Red like blood red is too harsh of a "warm" color for most people to look at for long periods of time.

[blaque_6thGen]

dude, red will be fine! there are so many cars that have red guages/radio/climate control lights in them stock. my mom's suzuki and my ex's grand-am both have red lighting...they won't bother your eyes. in fact it looks pretty slick. coomer used to have his guages red, but i guess he changed them back because he took that pic off.

grand am's and pontiac's are actually orange because it's easier on the eyes. Red like blood red is too harsh of a "warm" color for most people to look at for long periods of time.

hmm...it looks red to me (especially on my mom's suzuki). but you may have a point.