Agent 99 (Retirement)
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Two mods for this update. Smoked tails and an LED swap.
Broke down and had someone professionally paint my tails, TBL and side mirror turn signals. I didn't go too dark as I just wanted to take the edge off the reds and whites.
And I did my own LED swap. It isn't terribly hard, just time consuming. I think I destroyed about 10 LEDs trying to swap out about 25 and probably made at least 25 trips out to my car to see if the lights were working. I have a few other lights to swap (Headlights On, Cruise & SET) and I'm going to change the red LEDs I added to white. Sounded cool, but it really doesn't look right. I'll do an LED swap write-up a little later. Being a novice solderer and this being my first time ever doing a swap, I learned a few things the experts on here didn't mention.
Broke down and had someone professionally paint my tails, TBL and side mirror turn signals. I didn't go too dark as I just wanted to take the edge off the reds and whites.
And I did my own LED swap. It isn't terribly hard, just time consuming. I think I destroyed about 10 LEDs trying to swap out about 25 and probably made at least 25 trips out to my car to see if the lights were working. I have a few other lights to swap (Headlights On, Cruise & SET) and I'm going to change the red LEDs I added to white. Sounded cool, but it really doesn't look right. I'll do an LED swap write-up a little later. Being a novice solderer and this being my first time ever doing a swap, I learned a few things the experts on here didn't mention.
If you want to recolor the clock, you actually need to replace the orange colored filter. I got mine from www.sickstick.com for $5, but the picture you see is the clock without any filter. I'll get a pic of the blue filter today.
Since I'm not sure what exactly you're asking, here is the link to the thread to do both the dash and clock recolor and the specific link to the clock recolor
Since I'm not sure what exactly you're asking, here is the link to the thread to do both the dash and clock recolor and the specific link to the clock recolor
You both talking about adjusting the headlights? It's easy and just like other headlights. Find a flat, level surface facing a flat, smooth wall, park as far from the wall as you can while still able to clearly see the light line and go to work. I believe counter clockwise raises the beam and there's a nifty bolt head on the **** so you can use a socket screwdriver to make the adjustments.
I went slightly greater than level when I adjusted the lights. The car is low enough, at normal driver height, I don't blind anyone but it's better to see oncoming stuff.
Hope this helps.
I went slightly greater than level when I adjusted the lights. The car is low enough, at normal driver height, I don't blind anyone but it's better to see oncoming stuff.
Hope this helps.
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you guys. Was out of town for 10 days, back for a day then went out of town again. Just got back a few minutes ago.
JPfeffer: I'm going to have to go back and look at what I wrote to begin with, but a couple key things I would suggest if you're going to attempt the LED swap. First, buy extra LEDs. I burned out quite a few bulbs along the way. Don't use the a battery powered soldering iron unless you can find one that stays hot. The battery powered one I found required me to keep holding down a button to stay hot and that didn't work. Other than that, just take your time.
Druidiron: I'll get you a picture of them installed tonight or tomorrow. For now, the pros and cons are the Oznium LED strips are much brighter than any others I've seen. It's not real noticeable until you stand back about 30 ft. The only negative is the last bulb on each strip is slightly more yellow than the rest. I doubt anyone else would ever notice, but I'm **** enough I caught it.
JPfeffer: I'm going to have to go back and look at what I wrote to begin with, but a couple key things I would suggest if you're going to attempt the LED swap. First, buy extra LEDs. I burned out quite a few bulbs along the way. Don't use the a battery powered soldering iron unless you can find one that stays hot. The battery powered one I found required me to keep holding down a button to stay hot and that didn't work. Other than that, just take your time.
Druidiron: I'll get you a picture of them installed tonight or tomorrow. For now, the pros and cons are the Oznium LED strips are much brighter than any others I've seen. It's not real noticeable until you stand back about 30 ft. The only negative is the last bulb on each strip is slightly more yellow than the rest. I doubt anyone else would ever notice, but I'm **** enough I caught it.
Audi Style DRLs with the strips from Oznium turned out great! They are incredibly bright and look like they belong. I took a few pictures this evening at dusk and had issues with them glaring. I'll get pictures with them on tomorrow during the day.
And the clock recolor
And the clock recolor
Last edited by MightyP; Jul 19, 2011 at 04:44 AM. Reason: Almost forgot to add the pic of the new clock color
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Those look good! And you can see the yellowish bulb in the glare lines. Lol. I was like "I probably wouldn't even notice something like that" when I read your post, then I saw the lines glaring off and it was "white-white-white-white-white-yellow". Haha. Still looks great though. And thanks for the picture of the clock recolor from SickStick. That blue is neat.
I think I'm going to the same look on my wife's Escape now too!
And I think I've come up with the name! Agent 99 or just "99" for short. The spy thing works with the blacked out look of my car and, well, Anne Hathaway is hot. What do you think? Once I settle on a name, I think I'm going to have one of the vinyl guys on here do up some stickers.
And I think I've come up with the name! Agent 99 or just "99" for short. The spy thing works with the blacked out look of my car and, well, Anne Hathaway is hot. What do you think? Once I settle on a name, I think I'm going to have one of the vinyl guys on here do up some stickers.