LED's behind guages?

[Black_Dub]

Hey I was wondering, after seeing a few cars with this done, how do you actually go about placing LEDs behind your guage faces to have a brighter illumination? i actually like the stock guages but they arent very appealing at night...lol... any ideas?

 

[Cobalt Tom]

you would start by getting a replacement set, only company i know of that does them is black cat customs
they make gauge faces too.
they actually send you picture step by step instructions when you buy them, but it involves taking your gauges out (removing dash trim pieces to get to them) disassembling the gauges themselves, unsoldering the existing leds and putting the new ones on (MUST know how to solder to do this).
after that you reassemble, calibrate the needles on the gauges and put the dash back together

 

[FASTL61]

recalibrating my needles took me like an hour.I marked where they were before I pulled them off and put em back in the exact location and they were still off.finally after a hour I got it lol.was a pita

 

[Black_Dub]

yeah im familiar with soldering and panel removal, just dunno about that damn needle calibration lol.... Im def gonna look into the black cat biz, i def appreciate the insight guys....

 

[Cobalt Tom]

yeah im familiar with soldering and panel removal, just dunno about that damn needle calibration lol.... Im def gonna look into the black cat biz, i def appreciate the insight guys....

thats not too bad, ive done it 4-5 times haha

 

[LoneWolf]

I bought my ss gauge from ebay and it came with the Black Cat Face

IMO it doesn't match my car very well i would much rather have the stock faces on it.

 

[cobalt123]

i replaced my factory lights with blue leds from black cat customs

 

[JubjubW]

if I may... this guy is very knowledgeable, BBEngineering, would have gotten an LED upgrade from him on my Impala had it been worth it