[Kirky]

I have just completed the blue LED dash mod on my AU but have one small problem, I can not see my speedo,tacho,fuel or temp needles at night. I thought fine no worries i will scrape off the orange paint on them, now this worked a little but is still not very good.
I used 3000mcd LED's do you think I should have used 4000mcd LED's instead?

I only used the 3000mcd because i heard people saying that the 4000mcd were too bright.

Any help would be great.

Thanks guy's.

 

[Dellboy999]

Paint the needles with glow in the dark paint, they will be white at day and glow white at night, and being white the will reflect the blue.

Just a thought.

 

[Kirky]

Thanks,
Would you know where I could buy such paint?

 

[Dellboy999]

I would try Riot craft stores, or any craft/hobby store for that matter :0)

Let me know how it goes, I would like to do the same, when I get my dash changed to white numbers.

 

[HOTDBZ]

Don't forget to upload pictures when you're done. Sounds very interesting.

 

[Casper]

hahahahaha MAl, you cant help yourself.
Already drawing up the next list of mods?
Cant be that much more you can do is there?

 

[HOTDBZ]

Nope, Shane, I'm just curious.

 

[Casper]

hahahaha. Actually, I'm very curious too. Wouldnt mind it in blue.

 

[Kirky]

I have to say that the blue led's look great...... really great but i just cant get the needles to light up.
Just put in the 5000's but seems to make no difference.
I will post all info as it comes to hand aswell as pics.

 

[Casper]

yes, pics would be great!

 

[younggun]

save your self the trouble, I changed mine to blue by putting blue celaphane behind the numbers, meaning I could leave the bits I wanted in there original colour (i.e. needles, red line etc...) I also went for a dark to lighter colour effect by using different amounts of cello, just trying to be creative lol.

 

[Kirky]

It is now complete, I will post pics as soon as I can.
In my opinion..........well worth all the mucking around!