Me and my dad are gonna do it.. I cant afford any downtime.. Hes got plenty of electrical background, thats what he does for a living.

And, I think its fromm yesterday when I was looking thru your TT build thread..

 

Well technically, you can drive without the speedometer, hvac, steering wheel buttons, and window buttons ^^^^^

lmao

I did it once I believe. A looooooooooong time ago =p

 

I dont want my odomoter to be off. Or will the mileage be monitored by the ecu..

 

Thats a good question.

As far as I know. The mileage is self-contained within the little LCD in the speedometer.

But I may be wrong.

 

Yea. I dont wanna send it off and it take a week to get back to me and ill have my milage all off.. Iunno really dont matter but it does to me I guess..

 

It's actually very easy to do the LED swap. I had about 30 minutes of solder experience doing mine, and by the time I was finished I felt like I could solder anything . It just takes time and patience.

I sent my HVAC during April or May. It was only gone for a little less than a week, I didn't mind driving around for a week without heater/air controls, especially since it was 75-80 every day.

 

the only tricky part is removing the HVAC lcd, its a PITA and i guarantee an impatient one that tries to pry it off will break it.. I broke mine but thats was after I carelessly left it on the sofa to take a break.. stupid 1 hour of carefully desoldering it haha

 

I broke mine before trying to de-solder it .

 

Hey jon and ace do you guys have better pics of your gauges n hvac. cuhz ace you said you have blue and jon you said you have all white in that last pic. but both of ya'll look the same color to me..

 

White is hard to actually get a good shot of and I'm at work, so I don't have access to any of my pictures, which are on my Mac. I'll look thru my photobucket real quick..

 

I think we both have two toned led swap, white leds with blue film at the back of the gauge faces.. the difference we have is the are that we placed the blue film and our needles..

 

Ok.. It could just be its soo bright hard to get the color good..

 

My blue was much deeper than Ace's. The white is hard to capture when you're not taking a direct picture of it. Most of interior shots make them look all blue.

Couldn't find anything my photobucket, I know I uploaded a shot of the all white when I did it, prob on the SW thread, can't find it.

 

Ok. Well Ill just search around some of your post..

 

Just took a quick shot with my cell phone lol.

 

do you want a richer blue? you can do all blue leds too but cant do the numbers white.. carbons last pic is like a light bulb shot so it doesnt look blue coz the aperture is too open

 

I think I read on garage 1217 that you have to do something special to get the rpm red line red and the temp. Or do younot change that from the how the cluster came stock. Sorry I have completely forgot how every small detail on these things. Been soo long since Ive drivien my tC.. lol

 

carbon are you using all blue leds on your latest swap? yeah that one is a richer blue.. that was my first led swap but got bored so i did something a lil tricky hhaha, might go back to that soon since i have a spare gauge cluster

 

Just like that.. But with white needles

 

All white LEDs with all red LEDs for the warning indicators. It's the best way to go. I used a blue film behind the face plates to make the two-tone. I just used that colored saran wrap ____ (can't think of the name..) and cut it out. One layer was too light, two layers was about where yours was, and 3 layers gave me the nice deep blue that I wanted.