Re: Has anyone upgraded the cluster lights?
The guy I discussed this over with that had performed the LED swap in both the cluster and in his vdo/autmeter gauges went by the name of "helfmann" from socal. He pm'd me the following:
[qoute]Hi Ryan;
The VD boost gauger has Video's old lighting technology so there is not too much you can do. I widened my socket to get the 6 LED in, the contrast is great though it's not really bright. Doesn't bother me too much since I like it dim anyway. The newer VD gages (like my oil. temp) are much better.
The aftermarket gages are 194 bulbs, stock ... look at whitetyphoon.com, he has all bulbs listed. Do not try to use white LEDs for the stock dash bulbs, they are too dim. I tried it and failed.
Cheers
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[qoute]You're welcome. I meant with "6 LED" that you can get the 194 style LED either as single LED (like for license plates, they shouldn't be too bright) as 4 LED setup or as 6 LED setup. Take a look at
http://www.superbrightleds.com/. I ordered all my LED's BESIDE the ones for the taillight from them, they are fast, reliable and friendly in case a LED goes bad on you and btw very reasonable in pricing. If you are looking into LED's for the stock taillights do NOT use the LED's from superbright. They make a "little bitty tiny round spot red light dot" even with the 18 or 21 LED filament, look at ledtronics. They are $$ (guess 34 a pop not a pair) but GOOD
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I didn't due the cluster change over yet.. because im lazy and have other stuff that has to get done on the truck first and well im too lazy the oil needle is still stuck under the stopper too lol but good luck
