EK dash light

[kelviN]

Guys,

I went into my friends 2000 civic GLi sedan and found out that the dash lights were orange ! ( almost similar to a type r orange) and this is totally standard. is there anyway of changing my crappy light green/white dash light off my em1 to making it a different colour?

Has anyone done this before?

cheers

[fadz]

yes iv did this, go by spotlight and get some transparent Orange , and buy some new bulbs and dip the bulbs in one by one, give it about a day or so to dry, and yeh..that should be it.

[bungsai]

dont know how to change the bulbs...but why not just buy amber t10 bulbs?....

[fadz]

i went looking for those amber ones...No luck really.. where do u suggest to find em from?

[nugget666]

mmmmmm my car has stock orange. I thoguht all ek's did

[bungsai]

i went looking for those amber ones...No luck really.. where do u suggest to find em from?

kmart even sells em mangers

[fadz]

what are they called in KMART?, i asked my sister she said she hasnt seen them before? , what department anyways...automotive?

[kelviN]

mmmmmm my car has stock orange. I thoguht all ek's did

haha nah the coupe's have this UGLY colour.

So is it even possible to take out the light bulbs? because my friend who does this kind of stuff all the time said its not possible to do it to the gen5 preludes....

[fadz]

lol..it should be possibly on any cluster mate...what you suppose to do if bulbs blow? drive with a black cluster at night, im sure you can take them out and replace them...look into it or bring your car down, il look at it.

[bungsai]

what are they called in KMART?, i asked my sister she said she hasnt seen them before? , what department anyways...automotive?

yeah they are in the automotive section with the rest of the light bulbs. the come in a package with a yellow back ground and red writing...ill look around my car, i think i have one left in its packet.

[fadz]

sounds good, how much where they to...

[bungsai]

$3...

[shinji112]

coupes = USDM = greenish lights
all other EKs = orange lights
personally i prefer my green-ish lights over the orange

[bungsai]

for the rest of you

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1-BOX-10PC-T10-5W-WEDGE-AMBER-COATED-GLOBES_W0QQitemZ4625681633QQihZ002QQcategoryZ30862 QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

[EK4R]

possible to get bright WHITE lights?? that would look sweet i think. not talking about the normal bulbs with yellow tint to it, like LED white

[bungsai]

mmm you can but u need to get LED's.

Now if you get this one

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h197/autoplatonium/led_white.jpg

then the light is too focussed and not dispersed enough. I know with a teg you have 3 lights lighting up the whole cluster. This is due to the directional nature of led's and their light output.

So you can try this - 4 led's in one.

http://i21.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/be/63/8c_1.JPG

but even that is still quite directional but it will be brighter

or you can get these inverted LED's

http://www.wardenjp.com/1led57.jpg

they will spread the light better due to the shape of the lense, but it will be kind of dim cos its only 1 led

damn civic ricers...

[EK4R]

hahaha so much hating alrite will give it try when i cbf

[fadz]

final report finds, the 4 lot LED's Brightest lol?
ay bungsi ;)

[bungsai]

hahah im gunna neg you bish!

[kelviN]

SO guys,

All the lights emitted from the dash and centre console all come from T10 wedge bulbs???????

[bungsai]

centre console will more than likely be t5 bulbs. i am not 100% sure about the ek dash, i know the DC is t10, the EG is t5. Centre console on a DC also uses a coloured backing plastic, rather than a coloured bulb to emit said light, thus it is a lot harder to change the centre console stuff, on a DC anyway.

[SIR GSR]

Or buy the little colored rubber covers that slip over the bulb and change the color of the light....$2.50 for a pack of 10.

[bungsai]

yeah they work, but they tend to fade after not too long, and they stop a lot of light from coming out.