Changing cluster lights on eg

[vodkashot]

Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!


Aim: Change cluster lights on eg (works with most cars)

Required: 6 cluster LEDs, philips head screw driver, 45 minutes of free time.

Steps:
1. Go purchase some LEDs, you can find the ones for clusters all over the internet, or you can grab the ones like I have below for $15 a pack of 5 from autobahn (I got mine from their Bankstown store). Don't go tightass you WILL need 6 so yes, another pack for a single LED. Or expect a shitty looking job.



I got red, because it makes my car go faster.

(For those who cannot read Japanese, the packaging says buy these or we will rape you, note the exclamation mark too, they are serious guys...)


2. Take of the fascia surrounding your centre cluster, for those of you who dont know how, its two screws above the cluster and one behind the hazards that you have to pry off with a flat head. Then use those manly arms to pull off that fascia (Don't forget to unplug that clock and hazard switch!), the clips hold on a little tight so be prepared to swear at the plastic a little, some nice suggestions are "Your ****ing little plastic shit, and Hitler must have designed this shit...what an asshole!"

And then you should have something that looks sort of like this;



If you don't, then you may be you should get out of that persons car and back into your eg and drive far off and start @ step 2 again.

3. Im not going to put a picture for this step, you need to remove those 4 surrounding screws on the fascia and pull out the whole cluster, expect to swear a little more cause thing is hard to get out too! Once cluster is removed unplug wiring from behind.

4. Considering someone has not ****ed about with your cluster behind there should be these what I shall now refer to as "twisty tops". Some are black and some a brown, we are going to pay attention to the brown ones. Those are the ones we want to change, they come of with a slight counter clock wise twist. UNSCREW ONLY ONE FOR NOW!



Behold the giant thumb of doom!

5. You should have something like this ;



See that blue bulb, lift it right up! Not too hard you DO NOT want to BREAK IT, or enjoy the bleeding and troubles of getting the base of it out. And then you should have this ;



Note the small cut on my index finger, guess what I did...

6. Replace with the new LED and it should look like this



7. Place the LED back and test it (yes temporary rewiring) and if it lights up red your sweet, if not you have the polarity (+/-) the wrong way, so take out that LED and switch it around. See why you should have done them one at a time, if you didn't I hope you enjoy the giant mind **** you just created to get the job done quicker. Its a living hell now to find out which ones work and which do not.

8.Place everything back and put fascia and buttons/clock back on. Then admire your work for 10 odd minutes.


Taken with camera phone (looks alot better in RL)

9. Come to my place, sand down my car then respray.

Other comments

I know its been done here before by ICYOIL, but that was with painting the leds. This is replacing them for coloured ones altogether.

If you have an auto like mine, the white cluster can be unscrewed and lifted right out to get to the other 2 twisty tops.

[dougie_504]

What if it's manual?

[ICYOIL]

Looks good, since my DIY ive put leds in too
and there is really no difference to a manual, they are still the brown twisty tops across the back of the cluster

[dougie_504]

Ta. Might give this a shot when I have some spare time. Anybody know if it's the same in the EF8 CRX SiR?

[beeza]

Good Work!

[vodkashot]

Ta. Might give this a shot when I have some spare time. Anybody know if it's the same in the EF8 CRX SiR?

It may look a little different and might not be colour coded (brown and black tops) but nevertheless they are the same, hell same basic manner even for 2 of my ford falcons. There are only two types of leds that go behind there, and most of the are the small ones, the larger ones very few cars use but autobahn does stock it.

So yes, it almost the same.

[newpaddy]

nice diy, thanks for putting this up man, i appreciate it, i want to buy an eg soon, and i will be doing this, just gotta sell my integra ... but thanks bro!!

[vodkashot]

nice diy, thanks for putting this up man, i appreciate it, i want to buy an eg soon, and i will be doing this, just gotta sell my integra ... but thanks bro!!

Not a problem mate. Hope to see you rollin' in the eg soon!

[Chriskoss]

Anyone had troubles where some of the LED's would go on and off randomly during driving.
Mine do that, and obviously they are around the right way because they do light up, but sometimes turn off...
Im thinking the film that carries the electronic circuit on the back of the cluster may be stuffed? I dno if anyone can help would be great
thx

[vodkashot]

Anyone had troubles where some of the LED's would go on and off randomly during driving.
Mine do that, and obviously they are around the right way because they do light up, but sometimes turn off...
Im thinking the film that carries the electronic circuit on the back of the cluster may be stuffed? I dno if anyone can help would be great
thx

Could the wiring be loose? I had abit of a problem with corrosion on the back of mine where the dimmer was so also check that!

Good luck and let me know what happens.

Oh, was it happening before you changed LEDs?

[simbadda54]

I found that LEDs create light and dark spots on the cluster. Replacing the stock globe with a coloured one should give a more even result. You can also put caps on the stock globes but those tend to fade after a while

[vodkashot]

I found that LEDs create light and dark spots on the cluster. Replacing the stock globe with a coloured one should give a more even result. You can also put caps on the stock globes but those tend to fade after a while

I originally agreed with you there, until I got some nicer LEDs (not these ones) for my ford. They are like 3 leds in one and they light up EXTREMELY bright.

But for the little EG cluster the dark spots are hard to note in darkness.