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nodark

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Yea I saw that also and I think it looks sweet... I want to do something like this. Does anyone know how about how much it costs to change out all the HVAC lights and the gauge lights?

well, going off of HAKS310 list (thanx HAKS), all of my interior lights and license plates lights were around $45 from superbrightleds.com
 

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Gang, on the off chance, would anyone know how many lights and what type (if not 194s) would be required to do the instrument cluster in an 88 truck? Was thinking of getting my Dad a set for xmas but don't know what it takes.
 

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Kickin in....

Gonna throw in $0.02 As I was looking for something to this effect before doing it myself, but didn't trip over any good comparison images...

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You'd think that's blindingly bright, but blue(at least) comes out, as has been said, with no determent to driving.
 

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Gonna throw in $0.02 As I was looking for something to this effect before doing it myself, but didn't trip over any good comparison images...

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You'd think that's blindingly bright, but blue(at least) comes out, as has been said, with no determent to driving.

What effect are you going for? Multi-colored? That's quite the hot-spot there.
 

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So that picture is comparing 1) no light on the left, to 2) blue in the middle, to 3) stock 194 bulbs on the right?

Sorry, just having a dense moment (a long one) ;-)

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Is there a separate bulb for the gear indicator? It comes on with the ignition rather than the park/head lights. I'd like to do blue in my gauges but would like to put a bright white in for my gear indicator, as it's been a little harder to see in the daytime since I did the white gauge overlay.
 

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No worries. It's stock 194's in all gauge illumination slots excepting the lone blue LED. Being able to see "LED Vs Standard" was something I wish I could have found/seen before I did mine.

To boot, I had to get some indirect ambient light so the phone/camera would even see the gauges that weren't LED lit. Apparently the contrasting levels of brightness were spread out enough that.. Well, ya know.




I -think- there is a separate bulb for gear indicator, but not sure if one can get to it(If its in the gauge cluster) or if its entirely separate.

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Note the opening at the bottom? I can't imagine that its light reflected through there, or something that goes in there.. but that's more a less the only access point near the shift indicator so, it may be you want to make one of those PITA changes.
 

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No worries. It's stock 194's in all gauge illumination slots excepting the lone blue LED. Being able to see "LED Vs Standard" was something I wish I could have found/seen before I did mine.

Ahh, gotcha now. I'm just a lil slow sometimes :sleepy10:

I -think- there is a separate bulb for gear indicator, but not sure if one can get to it(If its in the gauge cluster) or if its entirely separate.

Note the opening at the bottom? I can't imagine that its light reflected through there, or something that goes in there.. but that's more a less the only access point near the shift indicator so, it may be you want to make one of those PITA changes.

Yeah, I won't bother with it unless it's reasonably easy to get to. It's just one of those little nagging things that would be nice to fix while I'm there for the gauge lights, but isn't necessary. (Well, the gauge lights aren't really necessary either, but at least they're easy! :))

I used one of the gauge overlays that is more or less a printed piece of window tint. It's generally a great product (http://whitegauges.net/) but my install was just a hair off. I got everything lined up almost perfectly except for the gear indicator lines, which are offset by about half the width of each line. Plus there is a tiny bit of tint to the openings over each line, so the light is just a bit dimmer. Not a problem at night but in the daytime it's harder to see and impossible to see if the sun is actually shining on the dash--I sometime shade it with my hand briefly to see what gear it's in.
 

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Awesome post i was hoping u could elaborate on the hvac control lights and which ones to purchase

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Awesome post i was hoping you could elaborate on which lights to purchase for the hvac controls
 

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