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Old 10-21-2013, 06:59 PM
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As for where you can get them from - 100's of vendors on EBAY....
Some of the cheaper ones are across the pond so plan on 2+ weeks for shipping (mailing). Superbright has good quality and service and I have purchased from them also: (I have interior LED lighting in all of the families vehicles....)

As for the green tint - yes I believe some of the folks have been taking the clusters apart and removing the green film (Scraping or solvent??) I am fine with the OEM colors just wanted the increased brightness and reduced heat.... especially as they get older!
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I got blue LEDs for my dash and amber LEDs for my signals off of eBay and didn't have any troubles at all. It was like $15 for 20 blue and 20 amber.
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This is probably a stupid question, but how do you get to the lights? And is it a 194 bulb?
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Todss..... yea the black face behind the needles has the green tint fuaed into it so has anyone left it be and got a food blue look out of it with only changing the bulbs
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considering the fact im going to school for electrical engineering, im pretty ashamed I didn't clue into the fact that they only worked one way lol.. makes perfect sense now, gonna try again this weekend.

and I got 20 red and 20 blue bulbs off of ebay for 14 bucks free shipping from china. took 3 weeks though to get them. I tried both of them and the ones I did have in the right way, went through the green tint no problem. im gonna stick with red though.

apparently you can also change the bulbs in the temperature selector switch's too.
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Originally Posted by gelpidamian
Possibly a dumb question ......i swapped the bulbs in mine to bblue they were still rather green bc the light shines thru a green coated film .....any ideas ive seen it on here in a forum before but they were blue and bright.....with only swapping the bulbs....im so stumped

I talked to a guy who had the blue bulbs, and he said he took apart his cluster and lightly scrapped away the green film.
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Originally Posted by matthew13sanderson
considering the fact im going to school for electrical engineering, im pretty ashamed I didn't clue into the fact that they only worked one way lol.. makes perfect sense now, gonna try again this weekend.

and I got 20 red and 20 blue bulbs off of ebay for 14 bucks free shipping from china. took 3 weeks though to get them. I tried both of them and the ones I did have in the right way, went through the green tint no problem. im gonna stick with red though.

apparently you can also change the bulbs in the temperature selector switch's too.
Do you have a link to the item?
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any pics of the finished product with red bulbs? id like to see it
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