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willie0503

Hello all. Been browsing this forum for a while and finally decided to join. Love this place by the way and excellent write-up. I did my gauges today and thought I would share the results. I did this using LED's I bought on e-bay and without having changed the resistors. I am going to end up getting the reverse LED eventually, but haven't yet. I'm also planing on painting my interior pieces (waterfall, gauge cluster cover, vents, etc). I'll post more pics as I complete them. I haven't done my hvac yet, but I will be doing that soon.

Before my swap



After my swap.

girlsdriveboosted07

anyone in md that can do this i have had the kit for about 2 years now really want it on my scion

merms

Anybody in San Antonio, TX or anywhere South Texas that can do this? Really want to do a swap in my tc

somejace

What's someones price on this?

Blue LED swap just like the picture someone posted above.

I'm located in Cleveland, Ohio.

HeyyJose

Wow! Looks really clean man

Raven_Nyx

Is there anyone in the Ny area that could do this for me? I'm daring...but I dont wanna ____ it up lol. :?

DaTRican

Is there a video on setting the needles back into position?

electrongeek

iTrader: (1)

I remember seeing a video on YouTube so try searching there. I did my own swap and pretty much got lucky when I mounted my needles back on.

They're all aligned and stops where they should be. It took a few tries, but I loosely mounted them, moved them back till I felt resistance and then pushed them down. I hope that made sense.

95maxrider

Wow, that is gorgeous, great job! I love your color choices. You're lucky you're able to use different color LEDs so close to each other. When I had mine done in my I30 there was too much bleeding and I had to stick to one color for the whole cluster. Here's what mine looks like:

Before: (95/96 Maxima SE stock gauges)



After:

BLIZZWHTPRL1071

You literally took the words right out of my mouth. I've also had my LEDs for about 2-3 years now. I bought them thinking I could do it myself. I wanted Blue lines with White numbers and Blue/White needles (Can't decide). After seeing the size of those LEDs I reconsidered and they've been sitting in my dresser drawer waiting for the money/time/convenience to get them done. I've got the LEDs to swap the cluster, HVAC, and stock radio to match.

I'm in Southern MD atm (Navy) but I travel to PA to see family often so anywhere in between would be superb! Let me know and thanks in advance.

FIREDOG21

^^This!! +1 hahaha yeah I love the way this looks and the orange is kind of annoying... id change in a heart beat, but don't want to screw it up... just my luck!!

DaTRican

I did my own led swap today! It was the first time I ever soldered anything. It was pretty straight forward. I love my new look!
It's kind of hard to see but the lcd screen is red and so are the turn signals here's another pic with the lights dimmed
don't mind the needles I'm changing them soon!

that_G_U_Ys_tC

Following for when I decide to man up and do this!!!

DaTRican

Did my hvac

Miguel22

Did my led swap

xdejablu3x

If I use another gauge cluster from another tC will my odometer still read the same? I need to use my car everyday for work and I figure that if I could get a hold of another gauge cluster I could do a swap on that and not worry about having my car down.

willie0503

I still have to do my HVAC and I wanna add slightly higher resistors to my cluster swap. I have the lights for the HVAC, just haven't had a chance to do it yet. I'm also planning on painting the "waterfall" and the accents on my doors, but haven't done that either. lol I work a LOT.

willie0503

That would have been an issue with mine too... had I used 2 different LED colors. Every one of my LEDs are white except for the turn signal lights and the Odo backlights. I used a blue plastic sheet that was stick-on on one side and cut it to size and shape that I wanted. That's the only way I was able to get two toned. I think it worked pretty well though.

Basebllstar

The gauge cluster will read what the gauge cluster reads. So if you buy a new one and install it, it will read what mileage that cluster has seen.

If you want to avoid sketchiness, i'd pull your original one and replace it with the purchased one for the few days you'll be doing the swap. Permanently swap the two and you're looking at fraud charges when you sell the car or lengthy DMV mileage changes and paperwork.