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Old 08-12-2007, 10:20 AM
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Check the fuses in the kick panel, may also be a wiring problem...
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Old 08-12-2007, 10:45 AM
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Check the fuses in the kick panel, may also be a wiring problem...
is there a specific fuse for the illumination of the clock?
i don't have anything that can check power to fuses. can i buy one at auto zone or something?
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Old 08-12-2007, 10:47 AM
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Alot of times, you can buy a pack of fuses that come with a small fuse puller/tester for a few bucks from many different stores (autozone, walmart). I don't know which fuse you would have to check off the top of my head, if you look at the label on the fuse box cover, it should tell you which one to check.
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Old 08-12-2007, 12:02 PM
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The ones I had in my car from them were way too dark, a lot darker then the Jetta. It was so hard to see the damn things at night. This picture doesn't make them look too bad, but they were much darker in person


Actually have amber now
the amber looks badass, nice oldschool look...i wanna try this on my s14
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Old 08-12-2007, 04:32 PM
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The amber does look like the Zenki Z31.
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Old 08-12-2007, 07:57 PM
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done!

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and i did the license plate lights in white LEDs, just to see how it would come out because the yellowish bulbs look nasty.
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the tag lights are white? they look blue! but i do like them. they take the 194?
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Old 08-12-2007, 08:24 PM
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the tag lights are white? they look blue! but i do like them. they take the 194?

yep, 194s .. they do look alittle bluish, but i'll take the bluish white over the yellowish white.

i guess the 194 (and all other sized LED bulbs) on that website are interchangable with regular bulbs of the same size.

so you can order 194s for the corner driving lights (if i remember correctly), the domelight, the PRND21 light (if you're auto like me ) the sidemarker lights, maybe the trunk lights..

the 194 is common all over the car, so if you ever get one color for the gauges and decide to replace them with another color, you can always reuse the 194 LEDs somewhere else
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Old 08-12-2007, 08:30 PM
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thats cool. i was wondering which one was for the come light. im going to install the dash and my autometer gauges lights monday. i will post pics of then. then im going to order some more.
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thats HOT Mike i like very much
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Old 08-13-2007, 03:14 PM
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Installing the easy way

Why didn't you go under the dash instead of pulling the whole thing out?

The car is designed so you can go up from below and change the lights.

You might as well have put in the blue face plates so you would have blue in the daytime.
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...wha? i don't understand, is this an s13 thing or something? i can't imagine it'd be very easy to change the bulbs in such a confined space as under the dash...
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I don't know which car you have, but I definitely can't get to any bulbs from just under the dash
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I don't know which car you have, but I definitely can't get to any bulbs from just under the dash

nor would i want to.. i might drop one pulling it from behind the cluster to the floorboard, and lose it inside the dash.

it's not like pulling the cluster was that complicated anyway
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Old 08-13-2007, 07:06 PM
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how much room is in there behind the holder and cluster? is there room for a bit longer bulb?the ones shown are short mine have a round dome shape like stock ones. compared to stock they are about 2 mm longer as well..
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