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Old Feb 6, 2005 | 04:03 AM
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I got some LED's and installed them in my AC vents, center console and under dash. Cost me a bout $20. http://photobucket.com/albums/v692/txjcb5002/
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 01:42 PM
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You need to place picture on a server somewhere as far as I can tell...

One place for instance in picture sharing is Photobucket...

http://photobucket.com/

After placing picture there or any other place that-> very important*... shares
pictures... allows you to link to them 24/7... you copy and paste the
below the picture the http within [img] http blah blah blah [/img] codes that
can be found in the reply page buttons in between List= and URL...

And whalla picture... may take trial and error at first but by third try
just about anyone should be able to do what i said... cheers!

*the very important part is some places make it so that
you can't link to their server/site for pictures... and can only direct people
by link to the picture source. It saves them from high volume of traffic
as hotlinking pictures makes for gobs of internet traffic... and if they have
advertisements paying for webspace like photobucket then its do-able.
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 04:00 PM
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cant wait to see. ive found picturetrail.com to be the best hosting site IMO
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by txjcb
I got some LED's and installed them in my AC vents, center console and under dash. Cost me a bout $20. http://photobucket.com/albums/v692/txjcb5002/
Hey.. could you post how you did it please? and where you got the leds and how you did the wirings and stuff.. i want to imitate you..
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 05:18 PM
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I like that shade of blue...

For me, my most difficult decisions are going to be the colors, not where or how
to do it!

I like yours a lot.
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 05:22 PM
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This is on a TC. I got the Led's off ebay (Link below). I had to solder the resistor and some wires on them. If you have the tools it is allot cheaper. Remove the shift plat and the center radio cover. From the fuse access panel you can reach up and pop the bottom of the divers side AC vent out, the passenger side is harder (very carefully) with a small flat tip pry the bottom side of the vent until you can get a hold and pop it off. I then started at the center console light and removed the wires from the black plastic mount I them used the mount to hold the LED and reinstalled it back into the dash. Next I used a small punch to pop a hole about 2-3 inches back from the front of the AC tubes see pick for the center and on the inside of driver and passenger vent tubes. The wires I used were 20Gu so they are small the hole only needs to be large enough for the wires & resistor (with heat shrink tubing or insulation) to fit in. I ran all the wires to the center and connected them to the existing wire that ran the center pocket light. But you can run them to a switch if you want. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWN%3AIT
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 05:27 PM
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Thanks I had the same thing but I have the Black Sand Pearl and I think the blue goes very well with it.

[quote]For me, my most difficult decisions are going to be the colors, not where or how
to do it! [quote]
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 05:30 PM
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Thanks for the info. How did u get to the right and left vents? How long did the ptrocess take you? Looks really nice....
Old Feb 6, 2005 | 05:50 PM
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From the fuse access panel you can reach up and pop the bottom of the divers side AC vent out, the passenger side is harder (very carefully) with a small flat tip pry the bottom side of the vent until you can get a hold and pop it off.
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hmmm look out the fron window....it looks liek ur under water.
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Originally Posted by txjcb
From the fuse access panel you can reach up and pop the bottom of the divers side AC vent out, the passenger side is harder (very carefully) with a small flat tip pry the bottom side of the vent until you can get a hold and pop it off.
Thanks a lot..
Old Feb 7, 2005 | 01:01 AM
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can i ask why you took off the shifter to install LEDs in?
Old Feb 7, 2005 | 02:44 AM
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Just made it easyer to get in to the center. It took about two hours. If you wire into the power for the center lights the LED's will only come on when your parking lights are on. If you want more control you may want to add a switch.
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oh well originally i meant the ****, but n\m i see now what u mean
Old Feb 7, 2005 | 03:17 AM
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