My Custom Gauge Lighting, Just thought I'd share... Options

[946thGenGT]

So I took a look at the how-to on replacing the gauge lights. I proceeded to order some LED's off eBay, they arrived, so I installed them... wasn't all that impressed, they made the gauges look sort of blurry and weren't bright at all. So I decided I'd try a different route. I drilled 3 holes in the bottom of the bezel and popped the LED's in. I just wired it into the bezel itself 'cause I didn't really want to splice into the harness or anything else. I just did it this afternoon so I haven't seen it at night yet but from what I can tell inside my garage it looks pretty good. I now have no lights behind the gauges themselves but the LED's I installed are UV so I'm hoping it makes the gauges glow pretty nice. Here's some pics:



The lights look blue in the picture but they're not really at all blue.


I thought I had measured the spacing out pretty good but as you can see the rightmost LED is a little too far to the right... I'll live with it for now but if it starts to annoy me later I'll probably fix it. Let me know what you guys think...

[946thGenGT]

Hey that looks awesome!  Will definately love to see the night pics when you u/ld them.  I also recently changed the interior bulbs to blue, but its come out exactly as you said "blurry and dull"...

I was planning to feed 2 led bulbs through the top 2 holes you can see in your second pic and point them towards the guages.  Will post pics when I get around to doing it - hopefully this weekend.
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Hmm... I wonder what putting two bulbs through those screw holes on top would look like. I'd be worried that there would be too much glare off of the plastic piece covering the gauges, but definitely give it a try. I don't know what's wrong with my camera, but apparently UV purple comes out as blue when I take a picture of it. The picture is a bit blurry but I think you get the general idea of what it's like. The tops of the gauges are still a little dark so I think I may throw back in two of the stock bulbs (one left one right) just to give it a little more illumination. Oh and the LEDs aren't actually as blindingly bright as they seem in the picture, but I think I might put some sort of curved plastic piece in front of each bulb so that it reflects the light back towards the gauges and doesn't blind me. Anyways thanks for the feedback and here's my night pic: