TL-Ridaz96

Anyone know what light bulb Lexus uses for their gauge clusters? I like the brightness.

cambo

what year model?

most likely its LED.

Ken1997TL

They're LEDs. If you know what you're doing, you can mod our gauges to be like them.

vishnus11

could u possibly elaborate on this? It would be a REAL classy real cool mod.

Apart from switching out to brighter LED's wouldn't u have to tint the instrument panel cover, and install a black light or something inside, so that the gauges AND the needle (which currently doesn't light up in our cars) glow. Oh, and u'd have to wire it so that the instrument cluster lit up everytime we started the car instead of just at night when we turn on the lights.

Any info on this mod would be appreciated.

Ken1997TL

I'll get you a link later today. I've seen someone do an LED mod with a Legend which has very similar gauges to ours

Acurasnake

here's a picture of my gauge... i just swaped the regular bulbs with LEDs

it looks better in person & it's really bright at night

UnsanePyro

I should raelly do that, I think I have a bulb burnt out near the top, everying from 60-100 isn't really lit up, sucks at night on the highway...

Ken1997TL

Links!

http://www.acura-legend.com/vbulleti...ghlight=gauges

http://www.acura-legend.com/vbulleti...ghlight=gauges

Ken1997TL

I'd like my gauges to look like this style in the end. (picture is from a 2004 RL)

loustylez

i don't know about you guys, but i like the inside of my car dark. i got the dash lights turned all the way down.

Ken1997TL

I think you're in the minority on that one.

UnsanePyro

I like the inside of my car dark also, but I also like to be able to easily read my guages...

IGGUS

I must also agree... for mentioned reasons as well as... especially still looking young, no matter how well I may drive (Only law I break while driving being the speed limit), I've found the more light you can give an officer to see who's driving, the more likely you are to be pulled over. I know they say they don't do it but...

You're telling me that if a cop sees a TL driving by, any year, heck, any car at all, and they see what looks like a 12 year old driving, Johnny 5, or a middle aged orangutan, that they're not more likely to get pulled over?

Yea ok

-IGGUS

TL-Ridaz96

I'm not sure exactly what model of lexus has the bright white light inside, but my guess is the LS430? Also the needle on the lexus gauge is clear instead of white like ours.

Btw, which LED size would fit? and possibly where can I get them? www.superbrightleds.com?

TL-Ridaz96

Also one thing that I noticed, the cluster from this picture is much darker than ours. I would prefer just the numbers and the needle to light up instead of the whole gauges. This of course would be a compromise to those who don't like getting blasted with all the lights.

03CoupeV6

Those Legends in the link have gauges that look amazing! Much better than the LED gauges on my 05 Accord.

Leviathan

My dad's ES has the gauges he is talking about. They are a nice, solid white. Like a flourescent bulb white. Not a hint of blue, like in LEDs. It looks very nice, especially with the red needles. Everything is very crisp, sharp, and deliberate. There is nothing that is "kinda" lit up.

It looks VERY VERY good.

PenancE

yea my friend has a legend too, their gauge looks so much better then us 2g tl'rs.

ljmushock

I'm with ya, I like it dark, so I got 5% tint all the way around... Still keep my dash lights turned up