How to spruce up your dash lights for 2 quid.

Hi,
I noticed that on my car, the dash lights hardly did anything. I was considering removing the green filter and lining the light box with tin foil,  but then I decided on LED's. 

Bought a super bright 12 led strip from eBay,  let the pics talk. 
Firstly I removed the bulbs from their holders. 

Then I soldered some wires to the holders
  . 
Then some wires to the led strip.
 
Self adhesive 3m backing held the strip in place



In car
 

What do you guys reckon? 
I left them green for a more oe look and there's a good reason most dash lights are green. They are so much better than before,  and still work with the dimmer

Cheers

Brilliant!
Do you have an item number for the led strip by any chance? The lack of light has always been a niggle that evades me until nightfall and it'd be nice to fix it!

I have done exactly the same only mine are blue  in a set of 16V clocks !! The only downside is that the MFA does not light up well at night

Bravo! 

I updated the bulbs but that looks blinding! (Pun intended)

Cheers, I was pretty pleased! here's the led strip I used-
Check out this item I found on eBay:

End time: Apr 9, 2013 11:09:17 PM

Item: 12 cm 12 led Lighting Strip ultra bright White for model rail building/coach 12v

URL: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=300874112497

Alt URL: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12-cm-12-led-Lighting-Strip-ultra-bright-White-model-rail-building-coach-12v-/300874112497

I had to cut the strip in half and slightly overlap the ends,  and trim them a bit as the length was a bit long. Worked fine!  

Lhasadreams,  you could always try one of the multi led dash bulbs in there? You can buy smd ones or just ones with 3 square leds coming from the housing. I'll get a link if you want. 

Genius !

What a great idea.
Simple but very effective!

Very nice job  

looks great, idid one similar with the interior light by putting 2 strips of 3leds in, that worked really well and much brighter and crisper

Very nice indeed mate. Great ingenuinity. If you fancy making me one up let me know

Cheers for the compliments, smudger,  send me the bulb housings with a self addressed envelope and order the strip to my address and I'll make you one foc. 

Good job man. I like it!!

Brill thanks for the link! Again excellent modification! Kudo's

r_chez_08 said

Cheers for the compliments, smudger,  send me the bulb housings with a self addressed envelope and order the strip to my address and I'll make you one foc. 

You're a top man mate. I might just take you up on that

Great! Just ordered one

this is brilliant and proves once again what a great forum this is with someone always ready to help or coming up with a great idea which they`re willing to share just ordered mine too.

Do you reckon I should ask the guy on eBay for some royalties for flogging his stuff  

that link is for white led's. is there a green filter on the clocks?

Yeah. 

My dash lights are so dim i can never tell if my lights are on or not when its lighting up time.. these look great in the original style!!