Bulb "condoms" for the tiny bulbs

A friend of mine found some rubber overlays for those tiny bulbs that go in the gauge cluster. I don't remember where he found them, but I can find out if anyone wants to know.

Autometer.com but those are crap just buy led bulds much brighter and better in my opinion.

After a couple of months, those things are gonna fade, man. Gelcaps advertise non-fading, but after that heat gets to it, beware the smell of burnt rubber. <_<

[brsexton]

Where can you get the LED's to replace it with? Also does anyone know how you can change the color of the gear indicator in the gauge cluster?. P and R are Red and the others are orange. I just wonder if anyone on here has replaced those? I would like to use green or blue for drive and the other forward gears and leave the others the same.

I don't know, depends on the quality, I've had some in all my interior lights for quite a few months, and they have yet to fade. About the leds, I believe they sell them on oznium.

Yeah Oznium sells them. They are cheap. Something like a dollar per.

I put blue condoms on my dome light. Got em at auto zone. Like 1.99 for two or three. They werk good. I know Ive never smelt them burning, and Im pretty sure they havnt faded....then again, how often is tha dome light on anyway..?? lol

[-Alero-]

heh thats pretty neat, i wouldnt mind changing the color of my gauge face and PRNDL and possibly my controls for heat and AC is there any way thats possible? i prefer yellow h34r:

for the gauge faces you can use condoms, leds, or colored bulbs. The middle 194 bulb behind the gauge cluster will change the color of the prnd321.

[sound_xtreme]

if i had an extra gauge cluster to work with i could start making sets. i took all the bulbs out in mine and replaced them with 5-3 led's

[brsexton]

Originally posted by sound_xtreme@Mar 6 2004, 03:10 AM
if i had an extra gauge cluster to work with i could start making sets. i took all the bulbs out in mine and replaced them with 5-3 led's

Did you have have to alter anything or did the LED's just fit in where the bulbs are? Also where do you get those LED's?

[sound_xtreme]

i totally custom made mine. includes led's, resistors, and lots of soldering.

[Aleromaster]

Yeah i'm in the proscess of replacing every bulb in the car with LED's. I'm soldering the resistors in teh switches and such so I don't have to modify the wiring but yeah it a tedias time taking prosses but the results are worth it

does anyone remember where/how i can find the resistor size that i'd need to replace the LED's in the guage cluster, and if there is a HOW-TO section with pictures?