Dash Globes

[H20PRF]

Hi All,

Does anyone know what the Dash globes are ? or pulled em out or made a change ? im thinking of turning it all to electric blue the same as the Vw's , I found that NARVA make replacement globes for all colours and manufacturers.

Cheers

Daz

[Dluxv6]

Daz
check prevoius threads on cruise control i think someone in that mentioned about globes

Cheers Drew

[Diegothecat]

they are some wierd globes

Iv changed the covers to my globes in the center console form green to red then to blue but the blue isnt very good,

Check my build thread to c the difference, but i guess if you change the globes completly you'll be right,

Please keep me informed on how you go as id be interested on how what you end up with.

[H20PRF]

Diego,

What i did was measure the globe , case and width and Depth, then ordered some actual LED ones that are 1.5W..... So i will see what happens when they arrive........


Daz

[Diegothecat]

are you talking bout the instrument cluster?? or the dash lights??

the ones in the dash have an interesting mounting system are you leaving it intact and just replacing the bulbs??

[H20PRF]

Diego,

The center dash area not the instrument cluster as i looked at that today , but bugger me how on earth dop u get to the bulbs ?

Daz

[Diegothecat]

its pretty easy, you just got pull the whole ac controls apart just be sure you know what ur doin as its a little fiddely.

If your really keen you can pull apart the rear window demister switch apart and change that bulb too, and dont for get the ash tray bulb, youll have to remove the green visor thou

[Parr]

Well this is about a year old now, Just wondering how the installs went, how hard it was and if anyone had any photos? I looked a diegothecat's build and there was one in there.
also what bulbs did you use? H20PRF mentioned NARVA?

[H20PRF]

Yes i used NARVA, but the result wasnt that great id love to change the INstruments and center A/c to the VW blue but its near impossible

[jap]

Don't they use a backing on all the transparent pieces? this will make it green anyway, putting a blue bulb in will yield results similar to what you have.
I did this in my commodore and declared that I wasn't going to do it ever again lol.
Spend the money on the engine instead.

[Parr]

Yes i used NARVA, but the result wasnt that great id love to change the INstruments and center A/c to the VW blue but its near impossible

dam a... that was what i was hoping. when you say that it wasnt great did it make a difference at all or not workth the effort?

[Diegothecat]

yea i got blue silicone covers too and they dont do it any justice but i think its a bit better than standard.

I couldnt find any other brand other than Narva that make a silicone sleeve, if only you could replace the bulbs to blue led's im sure that would do it but trying to source the bulbs that will be the hard part.

[Parr]

there is someone on ebay selling leds for patrols i might drop the a email and see if they can do one for hiluxs looks like this

[Parr]

that dash uses - Super White 4-LED Flux Car Light Bulbs T10 12V
im just trying to find were to source them from

as stated here http://www.patrol4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42828

does anyone have photos of the original dash globes or know what they look like??? my car is 3hrs away so i cant look.

http://shop.ebay.com.au/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=t10&_sacat=See-All-Categories

[metalux]

You can replace the bulbs in the console area with LEDS. Im pretty sure there is a company called 'newlightworld' which you can get auto bulbs from in any colour. But the dash lights have soldered LEDs on the circuit board. They can be replaced but trying to solder them out and back in your gonna need a sturdy hand. I wanted to upgrade my workmate LEDs to a more whiter brighter set like the SR5's or even go blue

[qberus]

Can be easely done using leds like those

( R3 neo wedge )

I just did it in cold white and it looks way better than the factory green. Only thing i still have to do is get rid of this green radio unit light Working on it atm but it seems its gonna take a while ...

[Parr]

Can be easely done using leds like those

( R3 neo wedge )

I just did it in cold white and it looks way better than the factory green. Only thing i still have to do is get rid of this green radio unit light Working on it atm but it seems its gonna take a while ...

Qberus were can you get these from??? Have you got any photos of the install and what it looks now i reall want to do this mod

[qberus]

Parr LED's you can get in any decent shop that sells electronic components or your local ebay I guess. I bought mine in a shop few blocks from my home. The installation is very simple, you just have to remove few parts to be able to take out the buttons. Here's a picture



The tricky parts:
- lighter globe is a one part thing - to change it for a LED you need to crush the globe and drill it out to make space for a LED so it looks like this



- those LED have slightly different shape so they don't fit exactly ( especially headlight positioning button )
- LEDs are +/- sensitive so when it doesn't work u need to change it's position
-I had to add two leds in the center of the dash as the heating console was partially dark so instead of 2 in factory points I have two more on the outer ends

I still have to change the colour of the radio but it's beyond my abilities . I need someone to do that for me. When i will be removing radio unit to do this I will also take out the clock to change it's colour too.

And here's how it looks atm



Picture quality isn't the best but it looks ok in reality

cheers

[murph44]

How do you actually remove the 2 lights from the aircon controls?

[junga23]

Any more updates on this i'm keen to change my centre console lights to blue