[Mk2] [Generic] LED Mods

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oteck
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[Mk2] [Generic] LED Mods

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This is just a compilation of places you can possibly jam led's

First the hard custom items

LED Cluster
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LED Climate Control
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oteck
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Then the Simpler stuff


LED Door Controls
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LED Trunk Light (needs tucking)
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LED door lights
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oteck
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LED dome light
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Interior Led in action
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oteck
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And my latest work albeit too bright and doubles as a reverse light spotter and floor light

LED License plate
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looks good, I like the keeping with standard colours instead of blue everywhere.
how have you got such a good spread on the clocks?
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Love what you did with the heater controls... I would like this mod myself and i have a friend with climate control, she is keen on getting this done too. Have been looking out for someone who does it at a reasonable cost..
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oteck wrote:LED Climate Control
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This is stunning.
As already asked, how did you achieve it?
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Nails wrote:looks good, I like the keeping with standard colours instead of blue everywhere.
how have you got such a good spread on the clocks?


The climate control was my first attempt at LED's by placing 5mm flat heads directly under the icons for each spots. i had to hack and grind the light tubes in order to mount them on there and it wasn't clean. replacing that with a custom cut pcb would have been better and cleaner but i didn't have time or resource to do it...

If this was done 7 years ago when i first gotten an mr2 those would be all blue lol but i grew out of that boy ricer thing and stuck with the stubble TRDish theme white/red.
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Post by msherry21 »

Those are the nicest clocks and heater controls I've ever seen! What an amazing job. I NEED to do this! Maybe an exact how to on this would be great for DIY'ers? I wouldn't even know where to start.

Thanks for sharing your work.

Michael.
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oteck wrote:This is just a compilation of places you can possibly jam led's

First the hard custom items

LED Cluster
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LED Climate Control
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I LOVE the red turbo :)
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msherry21 wrote:Those are the nicest clocks and heater controls I've ever seen! What an amazing job. I NEED to do this! Maybe an exact how to on this would be great for DIY'ers? I wouldn't even know where to start.

Thanks for sharing your work.

Michael.


I made an effort so it the nicest one in the world ;) Also making another one later thats going to be slightly plain. All the icons will be red along with the dials/notches but the numbers and wordings will be kept white.

LED cluster
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Looks stunning, what leds did you put in the dash cluster?
oteck
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read the post above you :-k
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Also making another one later thats going to be slightly plain. All the icons will be red along with the dials/notches but the numbers and wordings will be kept white.


For a rev5? i was only thinking about the same yesterday after seeing yours while driving home in myt rev5 - post some picies when you get it done, would love to see it :)
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Post by mrfil13 »

Man thats alot of LEDs behind the Tacho.

Thought you might have achived the back lighting using the standard spots but with decent LED's.
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i want it llok so awsome :clap:
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Post by biohazard »

The best LED-job I've seen by far....congrats :thumleft:

I bet you will be in great demand if you decide to put your skills to the market....oh and by the way let me know if you do :mrgreen:
oteck
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it's too much effort to do the whole cluster so that's why i don't offer that kind of service. For what id charge out of my time to make another will make anyone face even whiter than my LED's. I'll do have an easier method but im focusing on other projects
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can i ask where you sourced your leds for the door and the dome? :?:
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aliendoughnut wrote:can i ask where you sourced your leds for the door and the dome? :?:


I bought mine off eBay. Look for "MR2 dome" in the parts section there and you'll see a variety of them with different colours and LED counts.

I used 12 LED red for the doors and 24 LED white for the dome. 24 is VERY bright, so any more would be too much IMO.

Hope this helps :thumleft:
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