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Postby made in china » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:09 pm

Jai_Jai_Binks wrote:Look wise, its awesome. I'm sure rather than just backiing out the PRND, can't you diconnect those somehow??




AT indicators are unplugged. It's just that they have a illuminated field from the cluster lighting. I need to disassemble the cluster and black out the AT and fuel type indicators from the backside.
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Postby Ford_Fixorrepairdaily » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:12 pm

Wowzers good JOB!!!! Nice to have someone be a pioneer.
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Postby JMSinMaryland » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:20 am

Also check out Toyotanation.com, there is a guy named Snakeeyes in MN that has done an LED dash, maybe you two could share some ideas. Jon.
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Postby weaponrcamry » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:29 am

nice. :)
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Re: Suggestion

Postby made in china » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:50 am

JMSinMaryland wrote:Also check out Toyotanation.com, there is a guy named Snakeeyes in MN that has done an LED dash, maybe you two could share some ideas. Jon.


Is that the guy that made a PCB with a bunch of SMD LEDs for his manual AC controls??

I saw some guy on TN that made that, but it was a one-off piece that others couldn't get. But the final result looked sooo good. I need to get over to TN.
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Postby woa_its_j3ff » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:07 pm

any idea on asking price? those gauges defintetely look a lot crisper imo.
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Postby made in china » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:43 pm

woa_its_j3ff wrote:any idea on asking price? those gauges defintetely look a lot crisper imo.


I am keeping the price LOW. BTW, I only paid $50 shipped for those gauges.
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Postby NVDIS1 » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:51 pm

:o nice job!
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Postby made in china » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:54 pm

Updated pics with blacked out AT and Fuel indicators:
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Postby SirMacDaddy » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:09 pm

Thats amazing. Ive been wanting to do this for sooooo long and now you have proved that you could. Great job man.
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Postby JMSinMaryland » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:31 pm

He is the one that did the LED ac, etc, etc. Jon. p.s. you should join TN too.
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Postby lilm » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:51 pm

did your millage change.....is it saved in the cluster like ours?
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Postby made in china » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:55 pm

lilm111 wrote:did your millage change.....is it saved in the cluster like ours?


Yeah, the mileage changed. My car only has 50K on it, but this cluster shows 81K. I am not too worried about it, I am on the lookout for a 50Kish ES300 cluster, then this cluster will be up for sale. or, if I sell the car (very likely because the 5 speed is killing me in traffic) I'll just put the original cluster back in.
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Postby SleeperSolara » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:54 am

Damn, that f-in' clean man.
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Postby Solorange » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:03 pm

made in china wrote:
Fresco Bob wrote:I think is looks pretty good. If the 'blacking out' of the auto tranny gear selector indicator (part in the middle with P N D...) works well, you should also do the 'unleaded fuel only', itd look much cleaner.

How long did this take you? Have you thought about a dash trim kit? I think it would complete your interior as far as giving it the lexus look.


THX for the ideas....I was actually going to black out the unleaded fuel thingy also...I was just so excited to get this project done, that I will do the black out stuff tomorrow. I am curious to open up the cluster and see what makes it so darn bright....I'm guessing it is white cold cathode lamps, man this cluster is very bright.

I am definitely going for the Lexus look. I will do a white LED swap on my stock radio, install white cold cathode lamps in the footwell, change the power window switch to white LED, and I'll also do white LED illumination for the AC controls too.

Not too into dash trim kits that stick on....


That is an amazing job you did. I like it a lot. Ive done the LED swap on my stock radio. It was pretty easy. I followed the tutorial on TN likewise but my radio was a little different. I had to figure out the polarities myself for the leds and my display used a regular light bulb to light it up instead of LEDs. I just used a sharpie and colored the bulb. Here is a pic

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