Dash mod complete

thanks for the help

 

Can some one give me a website that sells blue needles for a 06 tacoma?

 

I don't think the needles are blue. It is the LEDs that get changed out that turn the needles blue. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I have never actually seen the needles in a different color unless someone repainted them.

 

Here's an example of a purple needle since I haven't seen any pics of one. I did this as a test using a white, blue, and red led, but ended up using only white and blue. The needle is painted white too.

 

The needles in my truck are red so dose anyone know where I could get some clear ones or any other ideas would help thanks

 

needles are clear with an orange film on the back of them. to get clear needles, scrap the film off (either by hobby knife (what i always do), chemical (acetone or nail polish remover im told) or sandpaper). to change the color, replace the LEDs that light up the needle. i highly suggest you also paint the back of the needle as well so that light shows up. i personally always suggest white, as this will have whatever color you change the LEDs for the needle to show up well at night.

to my knowledge, there is not a company that sells just the needles. have to get a spare cluster to get them...which i would imagine would be costly.

 

So if I paint the back of the needles white and put blue LEDs it will show blue ?

 

^^yes it will be sort of a light blue...for a darker blue paint them blue lol

 

How would you get the already red paint off the needles?

 

Post #186 just told you. look a few posts back at that one.

 

yep. the white basically gives something for the light to reflect off of, so it shows the LED color.

they will be a nice blue, just like the LEDs original color. if you paint the needles blue, they will not be as bright at night and the needles could possibly be harder to see during the daytime. this is why i always suggest to anyone that i do the cluster for that they keep the OEM needles or go white on the background. it does not change the LED color at all and is still easily readable during the daytime light.

 

Plan on doing this very soon.

 

This is freaking awesome!!!!!!!!

 

Damn, wish I had the skills of soldering! Wish they were like other bulbs, just plug and play. I would be doing this in a heartbeat!

 

Where are y'all getting the leds for the clusters?

 

@rafterc7
Check the first post:

 

i get them from lighthouse LED, half the price of oznium. check my sig for links.

 

It's not that hard, YouTube has a wealth of videos. It's pretty cheap to get started too. Radio shack has these little kits they sell usually on clearance forlike $5 and has LEDs and resistors usually a Christmas tree or heart or light changing circle..I would buy the solder there since they have electrical solder, but the solder gun i would get somewhere else like harbor freight or even AutoZone.

 

Hi there, I am new to this forum. I am looking to do the dash board lights as my first Mod on my 2015. However I prefer the look of the older dash templates (not sure what its called) where its predominantly backed out and the numbers glow. As opposed to the 2015 dash template where the outer half is lite up and the numbers are black. Does anyone know if you can order different templates? and if so where?

 

This is my dash currently.. (sorry for the bad photo )

Looking to change it to this ;


Any help on tracking one of these down would be greatly appreciated