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i wanna change out my dash and dome lights i dont remember what number they told me they where because i want to make my dash lights led blue and my dome a brighter led anybody help?
 


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I find blue LEDs make things much harder to read.

But if you must...
The dash (instrumentation) bulbs are #194. The front dome is a wedge-base bulb (#912 something like that I think), the rear dome uses a weird tubular bulb with little wire loops on each end that hook onto the fixture contacts. I kindof doubt you'll find a direct-fit LED bulb to go in there, but maybe I'm wrong (i didn't bother looking, I just modified mine so I could fit some warm/neutral white LED chips inside of it).
 

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I find blue LEDs make things much harder to read.

But if you must...
The dash (instrumentation) bulbs are #194. The front dome is a wedge-base bulb (#912 something like that I think), the rear dome uses a weird tubular bulb with little wire loops on each end that hook onto the fixture contacts. I kindof doubt you'll find a direct-fit LED bulb to go in there, but maybe I'm wrong (i didn't bother looking, I just modified mine so I could fit some warm/neutral white LED chips inside of it).
yeah i was debating about the blue lights because my buddy had them in his but than he changed to green and it just looked weird but i saw what you ment about how its hard to read, plus itd match my radio haha
 

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A slightly yellowish green should be very easy to read, though that's about what stock is already.

Yellow & orange is usually also easy to read, but deep blue light like what LEDs give off our eyes just don't work efficiently with (deep red can also be difficult to see).
If the blue light has some white mixed in with it, it's not near as bad (most "white" LEDs like what you're looking at actually have a pretty strong bluish tint to them, maybe those might work for you?).
 

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im gonna try that its just about hooking them up now since im not 100% sure how to do it
 

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