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Old Nov 21, 2006 | 06:52 PM
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im looking to switch the entire dash lighting in my LT1 from the regular leds to red. Whats the best to guarantee no dead-spots, and give the brightest light? I know there are a bunch of places and some ppl mentioned macewan but i really dont want to deal with them anymore
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Old Nov 22, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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no one? i just need to know where the best place is to get these bulbs
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Old Nov 22, 2006 | 09:22 PM
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What's up with xenons in the title? You don't intend to put xenon bulbs in your dash, correct?
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Old Nov 22, 2006 | 09:34 PM
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lol. no there are these dash lights called xenon or something which are supposedly better than LEDs; eg macewan sells them. i just dont wanna deal with macewan, last time i ordered from them it took a few months to get the order

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Old Nov 23, 2006 | 02:25 PM
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ledguages.com im guessing or whatever that one sponsors called. If they specialize in leds they should have red ones. I was going to put leds in my car and radio shak had red leds but theyr more expensive than white. Then i found out in my ta its a film that makes them red and not the buln itself so i installed white ones that i stole from work.
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Old Nov 23, 2006 | 05:21 PM
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led have the red light set for the gauges, but not the HVAC ones... anyone know if I can get them from radio shack with a specific bulb number or something?
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You might want to do a search on cz28.com for places to get LEDs. On this board you're not allowed to post non sponsor links. You can get LEDs a lot cheaper than you can from the sponsors on this board.
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autozone also has them 3 for $10 but you have to wire them. And i dont know if theyd match. Buy a trans am hvac overlay and it will come up red then buy white leds!
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