Saxo LED dials guide (56K NO NO)
 

i put some leds in my saxo today as i was board of the standard crappy green and all my mates had plasma dials so i wanted to be different so i went to maplin and purchased some SMD PLCC-2 BLUE LEDs (needed 16 of them). here are some pics they dont realy do it justice but its hard to capure it as there so much better in the flesh (oh and u can read the millage and display info and that but in the pics it looks like u cant)

BEFORE:



AFTER:




and here is the guide:
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LED DIALS GUIDE

1) Remove the dials from the vehicle


2) remove the outer case by pulling the clips back




3) remove the dial needles. this is done buy just pulling the speed/rev ones off with ur hand, for the other ones use some plyers and be carefull, also note where the needles are set.




4) now the dial transfers can be removed




5) spin the unit over and unclip he circuit board




6) you now need to desolder the old leds and resolder the new ones on. take your time and use some tweesers to help as there small and fiddley




7) once there all done test the unit to make sure they all work


8) refit and admire your handy work ;)

Awesome!!!

steve.... you are a credit to saxp. thank jesus's sweet-ass slippers for peeps on the site like you.

awesome man.

thanks mate, i forgot to mention it only cost me £4 to do ;)

i shall be buying them on my staff discount at teh end of work 2mora :P good job i work for maplins init ill get them cheap as chips lol

looks good nice and fresh

that is fuckin amazing mate , looks well good , was going buy the dials of ebay but think il just put some blue leds in

Will work for mk1 dials as well. Whats the code for them mate

Matee that is the best i have ever seen tell me will it work on a mk1 and how do you take the dials out of the dashboard

Bondie

wow great guide will be giving this a try soon!

looks amazing bud

awesome mate, great guide also, shame i dont have a soldering gun and id probably mess it up anyway!

that looks shit hot mate, will be having a go at this very soon. have you got a pic of the LED's on there own?

yeah shit hot steve

very nice indeed mate, i need to do my digital bit blue, but could i hell get to the circuit board, how did you get it off like that i tried for ages and wouldnt come off :)

looking good dude. i have just bought a dial kit from ebay, wish i had of seen this first!

that looks amazing, might have to try this

if i got some clocks from the scrap yard and did this would it altar the mileage?

probablies will mate, unless you get it changed by citroen, as i think tehre the only ones that can do the mileometer

how long do you think it would take to do all of this?

a dont know mate id contact citroen see what they say, cos i think there the only ones that can do it so nobody can tamper with them

nice guide bud, and looks good, might have to do that with mine :y:

no i meant to change the LED's

ahhhhh right lol

so you dont want to do them yourself, id say any auto electrician or ice shop could do them mate :)

Nice guide matey, did this modd on my skyline :)

no i do want to do them myself but was wondering if its a 30 minute job or if its a full days work?

Looks Awesome Mate, Nice One:)

thanks people, glad to see you like it, i got a feeling that alot of u are gona be doing this now ;)

duno if mk1 dials are the same as i have never taken any apart, what code do u mean?


i have never worked on mk1 clock so couldnt tell u if its the same

jsut so u know on new cars with digital miallage the millage is held on the ecu and the clock and if u fit say some clocks with 40,000 on it to a car with an ecu that sais its got 80,000 on it the ecu reads that clocks/ecu dont match and it then adds the two together so it would put 120,000 on the display and save it on the ecu. car manufacturers changed it to this to stop people clocking there cars

jsut needs uncliping its a bit fiddley as when u unclip one and move on to the next the first one clips back on so u need a few hands to do it but its easily done


15mins to remove the clocks from ur car, 1 hour to solder the leds and 15min to refit

any one have a guide on how to get this out?

do you mean how to take your clocks out

ive got a guide for a mk1 ... not much differance i would of thought

Woodsy could you pm me a guide for taking out the clock from a mark 1 Cheers

Bondie

that looks quality:afro: ,how do you get the rest o your dash to light up the same tho???

that looks great ...

good mod at a great price .. what more could u ask 4

Good point. Nice one for the guide steve im gonna get some of these leds and my bros gonna solder them in for me as id probably cock it right up. Would be cool to get the rest of the dash done with the dials, you reckon the LEDs are all the same?

Great guide there steve, they look great them.:y:

Would love to give this a try, dont want to bugger anything up however.

As Cal said how do you get the rest of the dash to light up the same?

And is the redline on the rev counter for example a different colour bulb?

thanks for the good comments, i havent looked at the other parts of the dash yet, but i am going to do the cig lighter, heater dials and buttons aswelll but havent had time to look at it yet and iirc it dont use the same leds but cant remmeber for sure as i havent taken it off to look yet

no u jsut use the same colour bulbs e.g all blue as the red is produced from the filter on the dials so thats what makes it red where the rest of the dials is clear on the filter allowing the blue to shine through

Very very good guide mate. Thanks for showing us all how to do it! It looks well trick!

yea looked at the picture again see what ya mean now.

Thanks alot for the guide, really is good with all details and pictures, appreciate it mate. Have rep.

Hopefully get some time to do it tonight, need to purcahse the bulbs though. Will any blue bulbs fit?