Instrument Panel Lights

[Hoover.]

Got my car at last hurrrayyyy

I have a new speedo which works like a conventional speedo (not the lovely backward working pre-cat one)

BUT its got a white light .... all my other instruments are green.....

can you get green bulbs ??? or something to turn the bulb green... remebering the bulb is inside the speedo.

It annoys me small attention to detail would make everything seem so much better.

Cheers
Hoover

[Barreti]

This picture is of the bulbs in my Griff.


The ones with the green caps however only came out of the clock - and a spare clock I had.
This may be how they created your green bulbs hoov.
You could get some white bulbs and paint them I suppose.

Edited by Barreti on Tuesday 28th August 19:47

[BIG DUNC]

I went through this with the wedge.
Some bright spark said paint them green with nail varnish.
I now know he was taking the piss but I was young & gulable at the time.
I could never bring myself to bring the dash out again to sort it out.

The Griff I now have has plenty of inst lights either out or the wrong colour and the dash will be coming out soon to correct this. I will be interested to learn the propoer way to do it..

[Pasco]

BIG DUNC said:

I went through this with the wedge.
Some bright spark said paint them green with nail varnish.
I now know he was taking the piss but I was young & gulable at the time.
I could never bring myself to bring the dash out again to sort it out.

The Griff I now have has plenty of inst lights either out or the wrong colour and the dash will be coming out soon to correct this. I will be interested to learn the propoer way to do it..

I hear what you say but Barreti would not try to mislead you he is a genuine bloke

Pasco

[Barreti]

Thanks for the vote of confidence Pasco

I looked for replacement green bulbs when I replaced the entire set of dashboard bulbs recently(ish) but couldn't find any.
In the end I went for Ring Ice Blue (the W5W bulb in the photo above) and wasted my money because they still look white but just cost twice as much. And you can't tell the clock bulb has the green cap on either - they all look the same, like a glowfly is trapped somewhere behind the dashboard.

You can paint bulbs, you just need the right stuff to do it with
such as this
or this

Sorry Hoover, I can't find you green but with the power emitted from the dash dials I think you're wasting time and money trying to colour the bulbs. I'd just get white

Edited by Barreti on Wednesday 29th August 00:22

[spend]

I thought you could get w5w led bulbs in a few colours, well blue / white anyway.

Dave

[farrowby]

These boys do a fair range of dash bulbs in green click.



Tim.

[Hoover.]

Cheers lads

When I take the dash of for relaminating I will have a play about with some colured bulbs.... I guess a total replacement will be required to get the same colour tone as well.

Hmmmmm wonder what they will look like all red white is to bright IMHO as i have no dimmer switch as this is manual over ride for the fan.

[spend]

Hoover. said:

Hmmmmm wonder what they will look like all red white is to bright IMHO as i have no dimmer switch as this is manual over ride for the fan.

Its only a 15min job to add switches under the dash... cut a cross in the leather, carefully insert 20mm hole cutter inside leather, cut hole, trim leather, insert switch..

At least you can get the dash light on/off back that way (I have @6 switches under the dash for various cunning things )

Dave

[LordGrover]

farrowby said:

These boys do a fair range of dash bulbs in green click.



Tim.

Nice link Tim.
Has anyone tried the LEDs on this site?