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Old 08-10-2010, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Crossy's son
.... left the little green covers, i did however get some sticky reflective tape for heater ducts and lined the whole inside of the gauge cluster with it to give it reflection.
My covers were blue.... wonder if there was different ones you could get? The stockers had a green hue to them...

I used some chrome spray paint inside the cluster for reflectivity.
Old 08-10-2010, 01:32 PM
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Blue led's in a red truck sounds silly.
Old 08-10-2010, 04:52 PM
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It's very patriotic Brandon. Not silly. Your license may be blue and red someday.
Old 08-10-2010, 10:53 PM
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Thanks for the input guys! I guess it is down to blue or red. I am a fan of color matching, but blue has an appeal to me for whatever reason. I think I am leaning more towards red though because I think my aftermarket radio lights up red.... gonna have to look closer tomorrow night. lol

Blackford: Good call on the heater controls. Are those 194 bulbs too?

Wanna: Don't understand your comment about being an administrator. Oh, just got it. You added white to the poll. I have a slight light sensitivity issue so I eliminated white from my list of options right away. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Old 08-11-2010, 10:17 AM
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Same bulbs Randy. I got my LED's from "superbrightleds.com". The replacements are under "12 volt car lights" and the ones you are looking for are $4.95 and called "WLED-xHP6 Wedge Base Bulb". You pick the color.
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Okay. How many do I need then? I have one gauge with a 194, but my isspro pyro has 2 smaller lights. not sure what # they are, but gonna have to match em.

Recent Development: Might just buy regular 194 bulbs to get by for a while. The parts for my AR-10 came in, and I gotta pay for em. Should know in next couple of days. depends on how much this whole shebang costs. lol
Old 08-11-2010, 09:15 PM
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Here's a pic of my red ones.
Old 08-12-2010, 07:49 AM
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here is the red with white face gauges
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Okay I'm bringing this up again, and kicking around the idea of blue or cool white. So there are 6 bulbs in the dash gauges, and I have one in my isspro boost gauge, my isspro has 2 bulbs and idk what size they are. How many bulbs are in the heater controls. How bout the 4X4 indicator? I was thinking maybe a red one there. lol What do ya think!?
Old 09-28-2010, 08:24 PM
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I say red, just like the rest of your truck and you say you like red. I've thought about goin to red too but I think I'll go with the bright green when i do mine...ha ha but now i have quite a few gauges to change bulbs in too. just waitin on some extra money sometime...
Old 09-28-2010, 08:42 PM
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Yeah I dunno about the red. A lot of pontiacs have red. I dunno if I like it. It almost looks orange. I dunno. Still on the fence.
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I have red now and I don't care for it much, I'm thinking blue.
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green oh yeah
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I've got old eyes so my vote is for white, much easier to read gauges at least for me


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