Changing Instrumentation light colour on NB30P3

TieNN89 · Postby **TieNN89** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:05 pm

i took my bulbs out couldn't work out what the watt is

cause it didn't say

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:11 pm

mx5boi wrote:

And no hot-spots at all.

I am happy

Thanks for the update MX5boi. I might just go ahead and do it too. Though I still think there is a little bit of hot spots* (around the 6 on the rev counter & 80-100km/h on the speedo) but not enough to worry about. I too will be happy with this.

*Unless the hot spots are more prominent in the photo due to a longer time exposure of the shot.

mx5boi · Postby **mx5boi** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:18 pm

You are right that you can see slight hot-spots in the photo but they are not noticeable in real life.
They are visible here (as you said) due to long exposure time and me editing the contrast/brightness of image to make it clearer for publishing.

I am very happy

oongie · Postby **oongie** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:47 pm

That looks hot~!
I am contemplating doing this with the blue lights as well!
what about your centre console? is that still red?

Cheers

mx5boi · Postby **mx5boi** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:57 pm

Centre Console is a task to be done over next few days.

Jaxom_2 · Postby **Jaxom_2** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:28 am

mx5boi, do you happen to know what size/type of globe/led would fit in the trip meter?
Also, i assume that the dashlight dimmer now does not work with the leds installed?

Mike

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:28 am

mx5boi, mate, that looks fab! i would have given you 10/10 but for the hotspots as pointed out by hammer. nonetheless you are awarded 9.5/10 [=

timetorelax · Postby **timetorelax** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:03 am

Jaxom_2 wrote:do you happen to know what size/type of globe/led would fit in the trip meter?

I know you asked MX5boi but the trip meter bulb is a T5 globe. My dials were originally green (NB8A) and I painted all my dial bulbs red including the trip meter.

BTW. for anyone intersted, there is a link on another how do:

http://www.gatorpictures.com/Miata/RedLights/

Jaxom_2 · Postby **Jaxom_2** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:23 am

Thankyou timetorelax, great to see it includes instructions for the hvac and radio too!!!!!!

mx5boi · Postby **mx5boi** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:17 am

The dimmer still works just as it did before.

mx5boi · Postby **mx5boi** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:23 am

Now if I only I had this at the start.........

http://www.gatorpictures.com/Miata/RedLights/

timetorelax · Postby **timetorelax** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:45 pm

mx5boi wrote:Now if I only I had this at the start.........

http://www.gatorpictures.com/Miata/RedLights/

I actually found this link before I realised a thread was started here :oops:

drifter · Postby **drifter** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:56 pm

Meh....why bother (with blue, go red or orange)

I had a VW golf with the blue lights and it did look nice for a little while (only because it was different), the novelty wore off fairly quick. They suck on extended night drives. You people do realise, blue lights cause the most glare and can be Hazardous to your eyes.

I prefer the stock NB8B lights. Highly visible and very easy on the eyes.

mx5boi · Postby **mx5boi** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:00 am

drifter wrote:You people do realise, blue lights cause the most glare and can be Hazardous to your eyes.

There is always the 'dimmer'. I always dim the dash lights on extended night drives. Whether the lights are blue or orange will not change that.

P.S. Mine 'were' orange and it is (was) oh so boring....