Led Gauges
After taking my gauges apart for a clean I realised quite a few bulbs had blown and the bulb behind the big red warning light was missing altogether.
So I got myself some goodies in the mail from superbrightleds
1x WLED-x6: 194 LED Bulb - 6 LED Wedge Base, WLED-G6: Green
1x WLED-x6: 194 LED Bulb - 6 LED Wedge Base, WLED-A6: Amber
2x WLED-x6: 194 LED Bulb - 6 LED Wedge Base, WLED-R6: Red
1x WLED-x6: 194 LED Bulb - 6 LED Wedge Base, WLED-B6: Blue
4x WLED-x5: 194 LED Bulb - 5 LED Wide Angle Wedge Base, WLED-NW5: Natural White
Coloured bulbs look like this. Each 'bulb' has 6-LEDs set at a narrow angle to direct light straight out of the cluster:
For the four natural white 'bulbs' I chose to use wide angle versions to cast the background gauge lighting. These have 5-LEDs, one bulb directing light vertically, with four others casting wide light:
Fitting is very simple once you have the cluster out.
Though I found that after taking everything apart to clean the gauges and glass and then putting it all back together again that the LEDs for the tacho background lighting didn't fit through the holes. As you can see, the 'bulb' is bigger than hole. So apart it came and I fitted the 'bulbs' from the reverse side.
All sorted and small wiring harness reinstalled. I am missing one bulb holder (bottom right), will source one of these later when I do a full cluster restore.
All installed and tested. Lights are much brighter - though not too much so.
Red warning light lights up properly when the handbrake is on, though it never quite extinguishes when the car is running. Very dim, yet still there. Thinking it could be a bad ground or something, another thing on the list to check later.
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