Alright... Well I finally got around to installing these LED's (and reverse film for the LCD displays) I ordered from LEDmod today... I'm not gonna bother making a "DIY" because there is a few good ones on here already...

Weapons of Choice:


Notice the fine tip on the Soldering Iron - It's a Weller WM120 12w:


Stock Gauges:


Final Product:


Stock HVAC:


LCD Removed (No Cracks Thanks to the "Solder Sucker"):


LCD and LED's installed:


Final Product:


Removal Of Steering Wheel Buttons:


Steering Wheel Buttons Board:


Final Install:










Overall I had a lot of fun doing this... I think it looks awesome - the blue is much better in person than on the pictures...

 

Oh, btw... Anyone bother to mess with the resistor values for the steering wheel LED's?... They're not bad, but if I could make them brigher that would be great... All three LED's appear to be in series, so there should only be one resistor... When I had it apart I forgot to check what the factory resistor value was...

 

that looks SOOO good. bump.

 

nice job

 

nice work! kenwood nav with the garmin action?

paint your needles son!

 

Yes Sir!... DDX 8019 with external NAVI... I dunno about the needles... I kinda like it that way... I'll concider it... It's great that all the lights match the Head Unit now... lol...

 

I may have to do this myself on my 08.

 

Ya, it's not as hard as some people think... As long as you have some Soldering/Desoldering experience it's farily easy... Although the resistors on the HVAC are super small surface mounts, and a bit of a pain to swap out, those tweezers came in super handy for that part...

 

looks good ur camera made the stock gauges look red.

 

Actually that's really close to the Factory 2008 tC color ... It's different from the 05-07 tC's factory color... It's a more "Burnt Orange" than yellow like the 05-07's...

 

I agree, the stock color on my '08 makes me think of a poor attempt at looking BMWish.

 

Among some other aspects of the car... lol...

 

sexy.
im gettin mine done next weekend.

 

Good work! On the wheel controls, use a 331 "330 ohm" & they will be much brighter and still be well in the safe zone for current draw through the steering wheel ribbon cable.

 

I think we found our next joint project....

 

Thanks for the info!... I'll probably do it over the weekend...

 

i know what 08's look like, its not that red tho.

 

Ya, I know... I need a new camera, it's like one of the first digital cameras Canon made

 

check out the new canon XSI, i just got mines :D

 

That's a nice camera... I was actually looking at that one, and the Nikon D40... I'm trying to save for some nice rims, so the camera's gonna have to wait