I saw these pics on the Legend forums






They arent very clear.. but if you've ever seen LED gauges up close.. you'll know they look classy. I'm hoping to get some step by step details on how he did it on the Legend.. and that will give us a guide on what to do for our TL's

 

yes please. I just had the opportunity to tear out my whole entire center console because I spilled a full cup of SUnny Delight onto it. Tore the whole damn thing apart just to not be able to clean the shit all out! I just sprayed a bunch of LithiGrease in there and called it a day. But back to the point... Tearing out the dash shouldn't be that much harder. There is already a full on kit available somewhere for about $50 I think. A couple of people have done it already. There is a DIY somewhere. Good times.

 

I want...




I want everything... EVERYTHING!!!

 

aint that the one where you just take out the stock wedge blub and insert led wedge bulbs? if so, i did it way back and liked it for a while then changed to reverse glow gauges.

 

Got pics of the LED setup?

 

sorry no i dont have any pics. you can also change your climate controls, sunroof button, mirror button, basically any button you want to led, all you gotta do is buy the led [2 specific sizes] and solder a resistor on it... someone did a right up on this a long time ago... crap wait... ill go take pics of the remaining led buttons i have on still.

 

the color i choose was violet/black light and blue. the reason why i change most of them back to stock is because they started to flicker off and on and eventually died out and another reason is it was very dim due to that led shoots to a point while the stock blub "sprays" out the light

for the gauge cluster, just take out the cluster, look for the 168/192 wedge style blubs and change those to the wedge led ones or colored 168/192 bulbs... i did both ways and eh, wasnt really happy with the turn out. if my memory serves me correctly, i think there was around 5-6 bulbs

 

man if we can get our dash to light up like that then kinda looks like a newer style guages ala 3G TL?

 

I want my gauges to look like this

2004 RL

 

HI folks,
I just started to noticed something about my gauge and was wondering if yours were like mine. Is it suppose to be normal?
What I noticed was at night, the RPM and the thermometer needle doesnt light up. And its hard to see the little white needle. But for the speed and gas part, the needle is lightup. Is this suppose to happend or my light bulb have blown out?

 

 

Mine is somewhat like that. I can still read the tach and temperature gauge but its not light up like the right hand side of the cluster.

I assume its normal as its always been like that

 

Ken, no need to get an RL. A lot of Hondas are having those gauges now...like the Accord and Odyssey:

Here's our Ody's gauge:

You open the door...


Put the key in...


Turn the ignition on...


Turn the ignition off and arm the security system...

 

u are talking about hot spots from the LED.. i see it in ur shifter.. if u have that problem that means the LED u got is not a wide enough angle... but usually to fix that, just sand the top of ur led with sandpaper to make it flat.. will disperse the light better...

btw.. 5 bulbs... i put the 6th one in the trunk...

 

Oh I know

I've seen all of the LED Honda gauges (except the Odyssey) for myself, they look amazing. I like the Accords and RL's the best.

 

whered you get the bulbs from? and can you post a DIY on changing those lights? thanks.

 

Accords gauges are too plain, but great. The RL is fairly small for me. The Odyssey's gauges, especially the speedometer, is big and easily legible...and on top of that, the looks of a solar eclipse is just plain awesome!!!!

 

Alright so Im not alone after all. It does kind of pissed me off now that I noticed it. I guess the Acura/Honda designers forgot wasn't paying attention to this detail. For one side to be brighter than the otherside lacks consistency and just doesnt make sense. It was suppose to be easy for drivers to look at. I guess I just have to modify it then.

 

Here's a thread where two people did two different things with the guage lights: https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109927 Mongoose posted a guide about it but it's still not very clear to me.

I really want to do that mod as the TL's gauges are the worst I've ever seen in a car (hell, even our old 92 Camry had better guages) and I hate reserve glow guages. It's surprising because a 96 Accord had LED guages (which look really nice) and you'd think the TL would get it too as it's a more expensive model based with many relations with the Accord.

J-Spec, that looks really cool... too bad it didn't work out.:-(

 

The '96 Accord never had LED's.

The only Honda/Acura in 1996 that had LED's was the RL.

BTW, the TL actually has very little in common with the Accord. Its a strange lovechild mixture of a Vigor, Legend and an RL.

 

ahhhh the vigor, i had that!!! i loved the front fenders on that puppy!!!

 

thanks for the advice, if i have time ill do it

 

i did this on my CL when i owned it, it looks nice at first them ends up looking like crap when the LED's burn out

here is the link to all the pics
http://rbf351.com/rob/CL-S/?path=./cluster/

here is what the cluster looked like after i was done

 

Nice, got a "how to" for that project?

 

I wish we could have light up needles..i'd be happy with tha revese's and tha needles.. Even tho ^ thats waaay better

 

man is that a cls6???? man i want that car... so sweet

 

sorry, i cant really remember the specs on the bulbs [size wise] but i did get them off of ebay and the resistors from radio shack. just do a search for led interior or something like that.

 

never made once, since i got rid of the car. it just takes a lot of time to do it how i did

 

NEW LEDS



Used to look like this

 

looks pretty nice, too bad the needles dont light up

 

Still looks great

Please let us know what you did

 

i changed out all the bulbs to leds I'm still trying to figure out a way to make the needles light up

 

just white LEDs? do you need to get a resistor or something? cmon now

can you just replace the needles with ones that could be lighten up and then wire a light behind it somehow?

did you disconnect the bulbs that shine onto the guages so you can see the needles?

 

Here's a DIY link. http://v6performance.net/forums/show...=&threadid=548

 

damn if you can figure a way to get the needles to light up i think ima copy you

 

damn thats just too much effing work.. forget that then cause im a lazy bastard

 

Did you use plug and play LED bulbs in a 194 configuration or did you actually sodier in 1 LED at a time with a resistor?

 

plug and play leds..imma lazy bastige too hahahah. I am going to solder the HVAC controls though. oh and the sunroof and mirror lgihts too. I only changed out the cigarette lighter, coin holder lights and the guages oh and the shift gate lights. gonna put white led's in the cup holder next

oh and yeah i took out the 2 lights on the top

 

where did you get the plug and play LEDs Mongoose? do u just basically take out the original bulbs and plug in the LEDs or are there other procedures involved?

 

When I had "white" leds from superbrightleds in my parking lights and turn signals, they had a slight blue and were not pure white like I had wanted.

In the pics of your newly revised gauges, they look solid white, is this the camera or are they really that white to the human eye?