Do you have a preface lift instrument cluster or a face-lifted cluster?
Hey a friend of mine can get me free LED interior and cluster lights. Only thing is he cant find out which ones i need. Do you guys knows? Let me know if u can. I need all the interior lights and the gauge cluster bulbs
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Do you have a preface lift instrument cluster or a face-lifted cluster?
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I believe facelift cluster. Mines a 96 c280 sport and the manufacture date is 96 also
"anyone can drive a new car, it takes a true enthusiast to breath life into an older one"
If your cluster is still the original cluster that came with your car then it is pre-facelift (facelift happened somewhere in 97). I'm also changing out the cluster bulbs because half of mine went out (not kidding), but I haven't had any luck with finding the right bulb sizes either.
O ok. So preface. Ill take a pic tomarrow
Yea. Once i find out what siE my bulbs are for the interior domes and gauge cluster. My friend said he will just give em to me. Sweet deal but i cant find out what it is. I think wichipong might know
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i have those regular ones handy... just need to get the number and take pictures... will let you know by tom
Cool cool. Yea get me all the LEDs for interior lights. And if u could cluster lights too. Thanks man. I knew u knew. Ur whole interior is LED'd right? Got pics on hand?
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let me see.... but yeah whole interior is LED... mostly festoon bulbs 6418 two up front and one on the rear then a wedge type bulb like 194 for the map light...
Thanks bro. I just let him know. Should be getting em by this week
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It's possible to change the cluster over to LEDs on the pre-face instrument clusters. I changed mines over to orange LEDs, but got bored with them very quickly, and they didn't turn out as bright as I thought they would be.
SOURCE: superbrightleds.com
Unfortunately I do not remember which ones I bought.
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how many of them are back there? i want to change every single one possible...anyone got pics of their cluster with LED bulbs?
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You only have to swap out 4 bulbs to cover all of the gauges and the needles. I don't have my receipts so I looked up what closely resembles the ones that I ordered:
You'll need two of these:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...%2FWLED-x5.htm
And two of these:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...specs%2FB8.htm
I tried to change out the temperature, odometer and clock bulbs (1.2w twist, lock bulbs) but they don't seem to work on those, which makes sense since the post-facelift instrument clusters ALL use 1.2w bulbs for everything, and I haven't found replacements for those.
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Also, use some bulb grease, since 3 out of 4 of the ones I bought had connection issues. The grease seems to help with that.
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Yup. They worked for me, they just weren't as bright as advertised. I found that the stock bulbs were actually brighter than the orange LED bulbs I bought.
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Im not too sure what color i want yet to be honest. I liked my b5 audi interior. All red. Looks pretty good. But i had black interior. I like the blue on my uncles r32 also. But i also like bright white. But i wonder if i get bright white if ill even really notice a difference. The LEDs im getting are pretty darn right. My buddys got blue ones in his car n there hella bright
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does anyone know what bulbs are for our temp, clock, and mileage?
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ill try to get you the pics later...
thanks man...i just need to know what size bulb is needed, or whatever the bulb is called...i need the ones for the gauges and the 3 for the temp, odo, and clock...i believe i need::
2 wedge?
5 b8.5d?
is this correct? lol all i need is a yes or no, if no whats the right kind?
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they're not wedge bulbs.... i think...
check this thread out: (from dying mymbonline)
http://www.mymbonline.com/forum/186-...bs-no-56k.html
Ive read that so many times. Still doesnt say what the bulbs are called
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2x WLED-x5 LED Wide Angle LED bulb
5x B8 series Instrument LED bulb
thats what the posts say...
I tried 1.5W B8s in place of the odometer, temp, and time gauges and they just weren't working. Maybe I just have bad luck but I would bet on the fact that the replacements need to be 1.2W. Lucky for all of us, ebay.uk sells these in LEDs in a wide variety of colors.
idk ill post the stock bulbs later... got a bunch of them from being too close to a salvage yard..