well, im new here and after looking arround, i see alot of great ideas. onthing with me is i dont like to spend money and like to do stuff myself, and so here lies my idea.

i dont like the stock gauges, or more specificly the gauge backlighting, now i know getting some indaglo (sp?) ones would look nice, but what i think i will try is replace the regular lightbulbs with these blue leds that i have. i was looking arround if anyone has done it, but havent seen anything. i have taken off the gauges on my car and see it is pretty easy to pull out the brown bulb holders for the backlights, and i will make some led/resistor combos and probably solder em in.

so my questions to u guys and girls is have u seen it done, and if not, should i make a tuitorial out of it? if u have seen it, could u post some links or tell me what they did?

 

What year is your civic? Alot of guys and girls here have done it... I got my LED climate control kit (blue) from LEDautomotive.com and I am just taking my time to install them.. for the dash ask like Chimera he has a killer dash on his 7th gen civic.

 

its a 95, but i just wondering if anyone as made eveything, no kits or anything, cause ive got like 100 blue leds buring to be used

 

im doing the same thing right now, pretty easy if you know how to solder not quite done yet tho... im taking my time, i dont wanna rush it but it's possible

 

i just soldered the first led in, looks great, im gonna finish up the others, and then ill have to take it for a drive 2 nite

 

yea man...superhonda.com has some hardcore threads for that stuff in the DIY section....BUT HCF RULES!

 

heres a easy way to do it..http://www.clubcivic.com/board/showthread.php?t=70190

theres another way also which im trying to find it..if i find it i will post it later

 

thats the same basic idea as mine, but i soldered the led to the resistor and then to the foil, i think mine looks better thatn the link u posted, a little bit evener light, but i keep forgeting to take a pic at night

 

Ok finnaly got some pics of the set up, since i posted last, i have also put leds in the temperature control, and dome light, i love the dome light, makes it look black light-ish. its not perfect, like the defroster icon on the temp control doesnt show up, but no biggie, one thing i have to do to the gauge lights is cut off the lenses on the leds to provide a more diffuse light, but all in time

oh yah, not really related to this, but my friend was looking at my car, and he said that looks like a silencer on my muffler, and sure enough, it was, we took it out and now it sounds great

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