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Interior/Exterior What's involved in changing the LEDs in the dials?

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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 02:45 PM
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What's involved in changing the LEDs in the dials?

I want to change the color of my dial LEDs from orange to green (as well the interior orange LEDs). What's involved? Any tutorials? Where to buy the LEDs?
 
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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 03:18 PM
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We discussed this a while back, because I was crazy enough to want to do it. However, after seeing how it works, it's nearly impossible. They're not backlit or anything like that - the LEDs are embedded in the electrical board of the dials themselves. The LEDs are maybe a millimeter square. Ian (GBMINI) did a similar mod to his stereo, and he's particularly circuit-board-handy, and said he'd never do it again - it was way too fiddly and tedious.

But as far as the regular interior lighting (the waterfalls, footwell lighting, boot lighting, etc), there's a thread around here somewhere about it, if you do a search.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 03:19 PM
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Old Jul 13, 2007 | 05:29 PM
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Wow, sounds too involved for my tastes. I have access to a professional soldering/desoldering station and I'm decent with an iron, but I don't have that kind of time. I guess I'll have to live with orange.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2007 | 01:56 AM
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Old Jul 14, 2007 | 06:26 AM
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I wish you had used color-change LEDs... then it would be the Disco Inf3rn0.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2007 | 09:53 AM
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Here's another thread on the topic: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=94118
Foxtrot_Xray has done the conversion for a number of people and you can make an arrangement to have yours done.

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I wish you had used color-change LEDs... then it would be the Disco Inf3rn0.
Not color changing, but EssentialMINI in the UK has done color mixes like this:
 
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