5000MCD LED's, Hard to Install? Options

[celiracer]

Hi guys. Well i'm wanting to make my guage cluster all red but leave the needles white. And i will be getting a boost, oil pressure, and a EGT guage for my a-piller. I have a few questions to be answered.
1. Should i get black faced guages? Or white faced?
2. Does anyone know if i painted the numbers and everything red with a type of paint and got bright white bulbs would that work?
And 3. with the guages in the pillar how could i match them with my guage cluster if every guage that i find has orange needles?

Also wanting to redo my climate control, and all my little bulbs to red. How hard are they to install? I can't get into the how-to.

This post has been edited by celiracer: Oct 9, 2006 - 12:49 PM

[vsideboy]

Depends what you are wanting to change mate.
If you are simply wanting to change then green leds that currently lightup the top of the switch when it is selected then it is as easy as desoldering the old ones out and soldering the red ones back in no resistors or anything else needed. I think they are 3mm leds. Be sure to put the new ones back in the same way the old ones were. i.e. 1 leg is negative and 1 positive.

If you are talking about including leds instead of the bulbs then you would need resistors to drop the voltage from 12v to about 1.5v

I think its the first part that your wanting though so just buy the leds and swap them over.