I'm converting everything that is lightbulb wise to LEDs and I'm not buying any of this pre-made I'm removing the light bulbs and putting in the led the voltage that these bulbs run on is 13.70 volt DC respectively just got to put a 1K resistor between it I had to do the test if this was going to heat up or not and it's actually better than the bulbs there's a bit of things to fix like for an example light focussing only in one area but that's going to be fixed later on with just filters and something.

 

Results would be better from premade LEDs as they would sit further back and diffuse light.

 

I did the same thing for most of my dash - as Karanx7 mentioned, sitting the LED further back and diffusing the light will give a better look.

I made my LEDs such that the resistor actually stuck out the back of the plastic housing - made it a bit more annoying to install, but it let the LEDs sit at the same spot the OEM bulb would've. I also lightly sanded the LEDs to diffuse the glow.
For some areas, like the temperature knobs, I used hot glue as a diffuser to avoid the hotspots that we're seeing in your picture. I'm sure someone's gonna pop in and tell us that this ain't a good idea, but honestly I've been running the car with those diffusers for about 3 years now and it's been fine. I also live in GA and park outdoors in the sun most of the time if that helps paint the picture.

All that aside, the blue lights look great man! Great work for sure.

If you'll be doing the gauge lights too, you'll have to make a cluster of LEDs for that. IIRC there's only like 3 or 4 bulbs in place for the entire gauge cluster. In my car I just bought pre-made LED clusters for that, except way oversized. I then remove the plastic housing and soldered the bulb clusters in directly to give it a powerful, well-spread glow.

 

I wrote a full guide here:

https://acurazine.com/forums/second-...terior-955089/

 

Your DIY is pretty good. I fix the leds where they defuse the light evenly and instead of going with white leds I want with Blues. I'll post a follow-up later tonight.

 

Everything on the dash except the cluster is led converted I still have some work to do if anybody can give me a recommendation on what leds I can use for the cluster?

 

that diffused light is looking real good!

check out the thread that Karanx7 linked, he's got his bulbs listed out a bit down in the thread. some had amazon links too, if i recall correctly.