Dash lights

[Graham Taylor]

Following on from Borders thread regarding changing the cluster dials, I have always understood the actual lights are not bulbs but led's and fixed to the board so cannot be changed. Can/has anyone actually changed these for white (or any other colour) or can it not be done?

[g-man]

be handy if u could,i'm thinking red backlighting to match the sony unit....trouble is then i'd want to change the rest

[westers]

i know in the mk6 fiesta they had SMD LED's in the curcit board and you coulds change them to any colour you want... if your confident enough to solder them i assume you can do the same to the connect?

[Dub-77]

They are the SMD led's so why not.... Just looks a pain to do.

[Graham Taylor]

They are the SMD led's so why not.... Just looks a pain to do.

Not so bad if you know what to do. Bit supprised no one has had a go at this just to get rid of that horrible colour.

[CamsTrans]

I'd be willing to give it a shot if anyone has got a dash they've replaced? I've done a fair bit of work with SMDs

[BORDER]

I will be doing this when i have time to take dash apart and solder them on..

I want a blue dash , but also I will be looking into changing the colour of the electric door switch and heater controls also to blue ( im a stickler for consistency and a pro look )

when i do get around to this , I was already planning making a tutorial .. I did do this on my old mazda 323 ..

but there maybe an issue ...

Its all very well changing the blubs / Led's .. but if on your dials the actual increment part is green also ( as it was in my mazda ) that will have to be changed also ... and thats not such an easy job , hopefully on the connect its just the leds and the dials are black and clear .. again this cant really been seen until the dash is apart.. ( or unless anyone knows .. )

what would be good is a dash from an old scrapper that can be taken apart to see how to do it first, before attempting it on your own car.

so if there's anyone that has a dash to donate to this cause ... lol

[Graham Taylor]

Been away for past few days but will have a look and see if I can find a dash cheap enough on ebay.