How to spruce up your dash lights for 2 quid.
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Cabfan- you know the clear plastic folder divider things? They supposedly work well for a colour change.
I need to sort out the colour of all the bulbs in my dash. Not a massive priority but having a white led on the radio, Green on the instruments and incandescent yellow on the vdo's is a bit annoying, plus the vdo's are quite dim too! Maybe leds here too.
Oh and another lighting tip-
Get an led festoon bulb for the interior lighting. I got a 9 smd one, it's really bright, a lot better than the standard one. Think it was about £5. Slight blue tinge, but that's my only complaint.
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It's for a mk2, but principle is the same.
If you meant the mfa light, I'd just put an led one in there.
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r_chez_08 said
I was thinking the same! I have bought a strip to do that and the ash tray. I'll post some pics when (if) I do it.
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r_chez_08 said
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.
I thought that I would resurrect this post - I would like to do the same as my dash lights are so faint. But does this require removing the whole dash? I looked at the instructions, but I am scared that I would screw it up and wouldn't be able to put everything back together. Plus, I don't have tons of space (not to mention, that I am very new to all of this and the repairs that I have done myself always seem to take 3x longer than they should).
Don't even get me started about trying to replace my brake light sensor. I can't figure out a way to even fully see it, let alone access it and take it out (hint, hint, help lol).
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I have 16V Mk2 160mph clocks in my Mk1, he does them for Mk1 clocks as well.
You need to remove the clocks to fit, not the complete dash though.
Click Search to see what he does.
https://moman.pl/en/search?controller=search&s=Golf+mk1
I also bought fluorescent paint for the needles and UV Leds to make them glow at night!
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lhasadreams said
I went with the lit dials sold by moman.pl
I have 16V Mk2 160mph clocks in my Mk1, he does them for Mk1 clocks as well.
You need to remove the clocks to fit, not the complete dash though.
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I am after! I will take a look
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lhasadreams said
I went with the lit dials sold by moman.pl
I have 16V Mk2 160mph clocks in my Mk1, he does them for Mk1 clocks as well.
You need to remove the clocks to fit, not the complete dash though.
Sweet. I have the same same clocks as you. What colour are your switches, also blue?
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