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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 11:32 AM
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What do you think about my new lighting combo? I used Red for the small gauges because the Blue LED's do not show the red part of the gauge face.
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 01:12 PM
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i think its different and def a good job. i personaly would never change my orange/yellow/red combo in the TA because i have had 3 pontiacs and well, i love the orange lol.

nice work tho
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 01:17 PM
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i like it! something differnt
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 03:07 PM
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Yes I like the Firebird dash too, I tried to change my cluster with one from a Firebird but it did not work so I decided to make my own design.
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 04:26 PM
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Very nice. I love the sony Hu im looking for the cheapest place to get a 630ui right now. How did you do the light dimmer?? I tried when i replaced my gauges & HVAC but no success
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 04:52 PM
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Whose bulbs did you use? I am looking at doing something like this now. Are those led's?
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 06:00 PM
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I got all of my bulbs at superbrightleds, just add the dot com to the end. I have a list of what I used but they are at home and i am working right now.

the Sony is HD and $144 on Amazon that is a really Good price!!

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Old Apr 26, 2010 | 03:26 PM
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you forgot the blue in steering wheel buttons.
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you forgot the blue in steering wheel buttons.
I dunno if he forgot cause i did my cluster and i dunno how the hell to change em.., dint know how to get to the dimmer light either though.. :/
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Remove the dimmer switch and you will see what looks like a little slot for a screw driver, It Is the bulb. I used a screwdriver for eyeglasses to turn the bulb and pull it out. It was Very easy, I believe there is a picture of it somewhere on this site.

The bulbs in the steering wheel must be unsoldered to be replaced and I don't think I want to try that. I was looking for some sleeves like the Rirebirds have but so far no one can tell me where to get them. Blue or Red is fine I have both colors in my dash.
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Ok so ive gotten to it and i still cant figure out what to do! I removed the black piece, took the old one out, took a 194 or 83 (whatever the small HVAC bulbs are) apart so i could use it without the plastic piece in the way, threaded the leads through the black piece and all that, it works but i have to press down on it (trying to figure out how to make it stay down).

Is this how you did it??
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OMG no I don't know what you are talking about. I bought a replacement bulb for the headlight switch from superbrightleds. It is a NEO3-X, all you do is take out the old bulb and put in the new one, there is NO work here no taking anything apart, it is a direct replacement. This is for a 98-02 Camaro correct?
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OMG no I don't know what you are talking about. I bought a replacement bulb for the headlight switch from superbrightleds. It is a NEO3-X, all you do is take out the old bulb and put in the new one, there is NO work here no taking anything apart, it is a direct replacement. This is for a 98-02 Camaro correct?
Oh ok yeah im trying to get a 74 led to work cause i ordered 10 of them off ebay for $2 or something. I didnt know you were using a different size. Ah well, i'll figure something out to keep it in there.
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Sweet job. How did you get the Camaro to light up? I need to do that.
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Old Jul 28, 2010 | 07:50 PM
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I bought it from a guy in Canada, just google HUmount and you should see it. I think I paid about $70.
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