I could sand the tops flat but rather just buy flat tops, or I guess for a wider spread of light the straw hats. once I narrow the search by colour, size and flat top. the white bases were a slightly off-white grey, otherwise identical, but after over 2yrs I haven't had to replace any. I ended up buying bulbs off eBay again, enough to do 2 cars for about $8 total, same price as the first batch I bought and also eBay China, but a different seller. Someone (on here) said unless paying about $6/bulb it's garbage and not worth it. I remember replacing all the lights in my car (trunk, dome, etc) with those wedge style LEDs off eBay, and the first batch were garbage and first winter they all died off. Not sure if someone is selling good onces, cheap or cheap ones for too much. hard to know if price is a factor for those because all look the same. Even the window switches and such are now blue LED. I changed everything over in mine a few years back.
On another note you may want to change them over to LED while its apart if you are feeling confident. The whole dash and light setups are like this on these trucks. Its not that hard if you are familiar with soldering and tinkering. This way you can heat the back up and pull thru and re solder a new bulb in. SO you have to use the soldering gun to "poke" holes in the rear where each light is as they are soldered to the circuit boards. Its molded together at the pins for the plug. How it works is you can take the front apart of the HVAC unit and get to the circuit board. These are actually "7219" Eiko bulbs (also available through radio shack online). " They are NOT just plug and play bulbs in the 03+ Chevy trucks. but if I have a choice between having all the lights match or half blue and half green, I'll get warm LED lights and match it all.Īctually, found a forum post for another car but assuming from the pic they have, it's probably not far off from what the Impala has Main goal is having a fully lit cluster and climate control. Though if way too difficult, I may just get warm white LEDs for the cluster and climate control and keep it looking factory.
BLUE DASHLIGHTS FOR A 2005 CHEVY WINDOWS
If I do this, I also want to change the lights in the climate control, as well as the buttons on the doors for the windows and steering wheel else the colours won't match. Have you tried changing the lights in other parts as well? but looking at the gallery I kinda like the white and it keeps the red needles red vs a purple colour. site doesn't say which was used just white.
Few kits online though that come with the resistors, packs of 100 but pretty cheap and from the USA which is still much faster than eBay China, which sometimes never shows up.įor mine, I'm trying to find a neutral white maybe cool white. Purchase your used parts locally to save you time. Increasing the possibility of finding any part you are looking for. Our huge nationwide auto salvage network connects thousands of salvage yards and junkyards into one place. I was going to buy from DigiKey because cheap/fast but sadly, they don't seem to have any 5mm flat tops. is your best bet online when it comes to locating Used Chevy Parts. did you do that as well? or just used the same size for all? I think he also used a 10mm one at the top/centre of the cluster. LITHIA CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE - Website Video chat with this dealer. I was looking at the 5mm flat tops for a wider spread of light, and I think the site you mention used 470ohm, though all depends on the values of the LEDs used. 1992 Chevrolet C/K 3500, Ext Cab 155.5 WB 4WD, 4WD Standard Pickup Trucks, Regular Unleaded, C/K 3500 trim. The one to the left is the front and thats what makes contact with the circuit board in the cluster as you can see from the left one if you dont solder your LEDS will not turn on if you don't solder them in.Nice. The left one, the wires are bent and a dab of solder was added to keep them in place The right one, the wires to the leds are not making contact so they will not turn on. In this picture you can see the #194 LED inserted You can see some wires sticking out from the one on the right after the bulb was removed. I broke most of my bulbs taking them out. I did not buy any #74 leds since I'm going to modify my HVAC, trip and headlight to have #194 bulbs just to make them brighter.Īs far as the 5 #194 bulbs required for your clusterĪs you can see the stock bulb is pressure fit on the socket but the wire that makes electrical contact is soldered on. I'm going with the red dash so I ordered 20 (6 LED #194) for $15 10 #74 LEDs for your HVAC for less then $5 shippedġ0 (4 LED) #194 bulbs for less then $5 shipped.
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