DrTynanol

Hello Azine, after finishing exams I finally had enough time to spend on doing the conversion because most of my bulbs were out.

I spent literally the whole night, till sunrise in my unheated below freezing garage stripping the interior trying to get to the bulbs

Since it was my first time taking the interior apart, I used:
https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-2004-2008-93/f-051-diy-video-how-remove-center-console-lower-dash-glove-box-733555/
this DIY thread for a guide

Overall the process isn't hard if you have a lot of patience with the detailed stuff..

-Hardest part was the trial and error of getting the 'positive and negative' of the LEDs in correctly.
-Another difficult part was removing the cup holder..the way is it seen in the video, he was able to remove the whole armrest pack but my armrest would not budge one bit.

Led on the left is the T3 bulb that I bought from ebay (30 for 20$, different colors available)

Bulb on the Right is the stock bulb


The bulbs arnt making the whole car blue btw, its from the dome lights (T10 Blue LEDs)

If your planning on doing this I would recommend getting making sure you have extra bulbs, I ended up breaking like 6 trying to get them to fit.

I'm also planning on doing my steering wheel but when trying to remove the T30 torx screws on the steering, my T30 torx screwdrivers handle actually snapped from the pressure (still trying to figure out a way to get the damn things out without having to drill them)

Oh and im also planning on converting the lower bulbs, also trying to figure out how to get to them lol

thorws

the lower bulbs on the radio are soldered into the board. So unless you wanna dismantle the radio then I would not recommend it. And I'm interested in seeing how long those ebay bulbs will last. I bought mine from vleds and they didn't last that long.

DrTynanol

hopefully they last a decent amount of time, now that iv done this i dont mind redoing it again if they go out, better than the shit acura put in...

rossv1

Wintergreen?


LEDs look good.

DrTynanol

actually, stokers mint. just using it as my refill tin lol

teeeejaay

So for this did u use 10 bulbs?

Looks super good this is going to have to be my next mod.
Did u do the small ones on the doors as well? Like window button etc

Gil'sUA5

Man those dome lights are wayyy too dark on the blue id find that annoying but to each his own

pearl905

12 bulbs r needed. And the window and door locks r soldered like the radio leds.

DrTynanol

Lol, ya they are pretty dark. I don't really use the dome lights much so I thought might as well make em blue

teeeejaay

Ok thanks! Where should I look for the led for the window and door locks? Any part # or type I can look on ebay or something

DrTynanol

you actually only need 8 for the climate buttons, there is 4 on each side. I would definitely recommend getting a couple extra incase one of the bulbs break while installing

pearl905

^yea ur right, 12 bulbs if u have navi.

JTS97Z28

iTrader: (4)

OEM looks best, but that's just me. Your red arrows aren't even lit up on your temp buttons now.

DrTynanol

yep. im assuming its because of it being red, its not letting light through or something O.o

I have no idea why lol

DrTynanol

I hate the OEM color...plus the blue matches the gauges

CLOS_TL

Yup ble looks good

pearl905

got mine from autolumination.com 1year later still going strong.

raindogt

Re: the torx screws, get a set of torx bits (not the torx drivers) and use a wratchet and a quarter inch socket to hold the torx bit. that should get them out.
//edit// Also, digging the blue.

Damin1123

That looks good bro! I'm planning to do mine soon hopefully

Duclair23

that looks really good guy