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OMG after all that.

So now I am back to my record of not ONE of the many packets that I have sent out going missing.

People need to have a little faith!

By a twist of fate my packets didn't end up going out till today anyway as I had given them to my wife to post yesterday and she ended up missing the post office.

So panic over and I can send that kit to the next deserving customer!


Just to confirm.

ALL PACKETS HAVE BEEN POSTED!

I can vouch for Julians work...he's installed two kits for me now. Previous kit was blue led/dash kit into my celica SR and then a white led kit into my celica GT.

I don't often come onto this forum but thought I'd give you all a heads up on how good the kits look

John - uk

Thanks for sharing the pics John. :-)

We will have to do some more when we fit your white clock filter too.

The new filter gel does the trick nicely as can be seen in this pic below of a skyline R33 climate control and clock that I have just converted.

Everything shown here is normally green....the white looks slightly grey in this shot as the skyline dims this illumination when the lights are turned on but its pure white at full brightness.



This post has been edited by Spree: May 28, 2011 - 5:07 AM

hey spree, just wanted to let you know my kit came in the mail today; only took like a week. You are the man!

so idk what im doing wrong but none of the leds will light up. ive rotated them 180 degrees and still nothing

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What part are we talking about?

I take it you have started with the ignition ring and then moved on to the instrument cluster?

Have you fitted the instrument cluster bulbs direct into the standard bases or kept them in the wedge bases?

You need to make sure the pins sit right as this can cause problems.

Sometimes it is easy to rotate the bulbs 360 degrees rather then 180 so you end up putting them in the same way.

You should also test all the bulbs on a 9v battery so that you can put to rest any worries regarding faulty bulbs.

Just to let you know that bulb failures are very rare with these bulbs..

Thers a few ideas to get you started!

they are still in the wedge case. but even when i tried to retest the regular bulbs they didnt light up either

fixed it

So I got to install the gauges for now and took a picture under a towel, now off to work to see snoop dogg =D

Patience pays off, got my white kit today! Cant wait to install it Thanks!

PM'd for order

Here is a pic of the filter to make the green clock illumination white next to my blue dials.

I am going to fit white led's in the dials today to show how the clock matches up against them but this pic below is good for indicating the 'white-ness' if the clock. There is a subtle purple tinge around it but the actual illumination of the numbers is white and this is what you see when you see it in the flesh.

I feel the need to share this as I have already had one person freak out when they got a pink filter with his white kit and then start spouting all kinds of nonsense about how it would make his clock orange.... (Roll eyes)




This post has been edited by Spree: Jun 4, 2011 - 6:41 AM

Ok.

I refined the filter today and have achieved a better result. As you can see no purple bleeding through now and even whiter plus the light level matches the main clocks better. These white filters have been a nightmare to be honest!

I will send anybody that is not happy who has bought the white kit the newest version of the filter and I will be contacting them anyway regarding this next week.

Got the gauge cluster installed today, as well as the clock and ignition ring. Here are some pics not great quality..







In the pictures, the clock looks a little more colorful than it does in person, you can still tell its not white though.. i kinda like it (its not green haha)

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Hi,

Looks good man. I did make a bit of an error with the clocks filters I sent out as I double layered them and this causes the overly pink tint.

If you remove one of the layers from the filter it will produce a white light.

I will also send you a whole new filter next week dude if you want one as I have nailed it now with the last attempt?( One layer if that pink gel and another layer of a tint to reduce the light output and mask the pink gel from the front)

I have my st205 back at home now so have had time to play with these things again. :-)

Julian.

This post has been edited by Spree: Jun 5, 2011 - 3:43 AM

does anybody have a good suggestion as to how to make the speedometer needle red to go with the white LED dash kit?...perhaps a thin layer of red nail polish?

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That'll work


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That's actually what i plan to do too
Im probably gonna head to the craft store and grab some candy red "Testors" paint. People use that for redding out tails so i figure it'd do the same for the needles. its only a couple bucks.
Nail polish might work, if you try lemme know how it goes.

This post has been edited by smkr3w: Jun 5, 2011 - 10:44 PM

I wouldn't use nail polish, you with have uneven coats and you will see streaks

I am planning to test this kit on my st205 dials as this looks far more interesting then painting the needles. If they are good then I may approach the company as a supplier for them.

http://www.xtuners.com/catalog/product_inf...r-needles-p-494

Here is some needle paint on ebay though if thats what you want to do...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RED-1oz-Needle-Paint...=item53dcfc162d

Just ordered a set of blues.

Just to keep you guys informed. I am going to start doing PURPLE and AMBER full dash kits soon to add to the selection of BLUE, WHITE, YELLOW, GREEN and RED.

I will also be adding side repeater/indicator led's to the selection and am about to start testing various brake light bulbs with a view to finding the best.

My intention is to provide an LED replacement for every bulb on the car bar the main headlights and front fogs. I like phillips blue vision bulbs for those by the way as I had HID's before and became a very hated man on the road as I burned everbody's eyes out lol.

so what are you thinking for the headlights? I would deff consider buying led headlights =D

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I probably won't do led headlights as they are not legal in the UK at least and do not provide enough output to use for this purpose. You need to have the refector designed for the bulb and our cars are designed for normal old style incandescant bulbs. You can't really beat phillips bluevision in our cars imho.

Sorry mate!

Also I will be posting some better pics soon as I finally have a decent camera.

Here is one from the other night.

My kit arrived today thanks, but I'm having a couple of issues.

The climate control is okay, but doesn't seem as good as some of the pics in this thread. Some parts are really bright, but other parts really aren't. Both LEDs are working, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

But anyway, that's not so much a concern as my instrument cluster is. This isn't a complaint, because I know the lights have worked well for others, but I'm posting it here in the hope that Spree or anyone else can 'shed some light' on the issue.

I installed the two large LEDs in the back of the cluster (the kit came with three large bulbs, but my cluster only has two) and they are working fine, but the light doesn't come through the dials. This pic best shows what's going on, and I've removed the face/cover thing so you can see that the LEDs are definitely working:



As you can see, there is plenty of light but it just doesn't come through the dials. In this next pic I've put the cover back on, and as you can see the light is only showing through the odometer and a little through the needles, which a tiny bit of green light barely showing through the dials.



Any ideas on what's going on? I reinstalled the original bulbs and they shine through the dials easily.

Getting back to the number of LEDs supplied, I had three large ones but my cluster only takes two large ones, plus two or three small ones to light up the fuel and temperature gauges. My cluster is JDM so maybe that's the reason? I note that my Aussie dash takes three large bulbs.

I fitted the small LEDs provided for the climate control into the relevant positions in the cluster and they worked fine, but I had to take them back out to fit to the climate control, so now I'm short a couple of bulbs.

Here's a pic of the back of my cluster:



So... any ideas on why the LEDs won't shine through my dials?

Thanks.

are those after market gauges?

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Wow, There is always the odd variant and I have seen one car with the speedo bulb setup that you have but that was a late ss2 and it did not have the problem with the dials.

Basically I think what is going on is that those dials obviously do not let much light through and a normal bulb is far more diffuse then an led so the issue is not highlighted. It's very odd and the only way that it looks like you are going to get led's to work with them is if you modified the dials or get replacements.

A guy called mook @ www.skewer.co.uk sells fantastic custom dials over here but you would need to make sure that there is nothing else blocking the light first..

The climate control just needs a bit of fiddling with the two bulbs to get a decent light spread.

I feel bad that you have one of these uber rare cars and I do say my kit fits all celica's so I will send you some extra bulbs to cover the climate control again and would you like a free courtesy light kit so that you can at least enjoy some kind of lighting upgrade whilst you decide what to do with the dials?

PM me mate. :-)

PM'd
Thanks for the 6gc special Spree.

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Yep, my dash is from a late SS-II as well.

Bummer about them not working. I just checked out Skewer, not that keen on spending £90 on a new set of dials, although the Aussie dollar did hit a high against the pound today! I tell you what I did like on the Skewer site though, those WRC replica graphics kits. Very cool.

I'll PM you about the other stuff.

Cheers.

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Mooks dials are the very best though mate and I myself will probably end up buying a set and those castrol graphics are just what my white st205 wrc needs.:-)

Also, my courtesy light kits are $39.99 delivered by themselves so I hope you realize that I am doing you a very good deal in compensation for your freak ss-II dash lol?

I like to keep my customers happy with top quality kit and the best advice.

Julian.

NEWS FLASH!!!!

I am going to Dubai to work for three weeks next thursday so if anybody wants anything Spree LED related then get in quick otherwise you will have to wait a whole month!!!

Kind Regards,

Julian.