Saxo Center Console LED guide (56K NO NO) - Saxperience

stevenet15 · 6th April 2007, 01:26

right after doing all the other dials and buttons in my car i decided to tackle the center console dials, here is a pic of how they are before i started, dull green mmmm...nasty

i removed the console dials and i found that the dials had geen filters on them, i tried to remove the filters but its part of the plastic and when u try to remove them it ruins the rest of the dials, i tried removeing them chemically and other various methods including light sand paper but none worked

so now i was abit stuck but any one that knows me knows i wont let that stop me from getting what i want and i love a good chalange so i set about getting around the problem.

..... after about 5 mins of thinking i came up with the only way i can see them getting sorted would be to make some console dials

so i got to work on my laptop making up a high resolution (shown zoomed out in this pic)

got one printed as a test to see if it fits, and it did perfectly

so now it was time to make them the real deal

i went into work at 11pm when no one was about and used the lazer printer

i printed 3 different peices, 1) white paper, 2) transparent paper clear dials, 3) transparent paper coloured dials

1) white paper

2) transparent paper clear dials

3) transparent paper coloured dials

i then cut one of each out

they are then glued together while u hold it up to a light to alighn them up, first is the coloured one, then the papaer one then the clear one.

and here is the finished product, looks like it was made from factory

i ran out of LEDs but i had one blue and one red left so here is how it looks:

its a lovely smooth finish as the stuff is printed on the back as a reverse image so u have the smooth clear plastic at the front and this also stops it getting damaged when cleaning etc...

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here are the image files that you can use to do your own as i no longer sell them as i dont have access to the medical lazer printer at work, you may be able to make some using special over head projector clear printer film and a normal lazer printer.

click pics to inlarge

Predator_R32^p · 6th April 2007, 01:29

looks great steve would you fancy like posting a transparent one to me id give you the money obvoiusly ???

stevenet15 · 6th April 2007, 01:30

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Originally Posted by Predator_VTR

looks great steve would you fancy like posting a transparent one to me id give you the money obvoiusly ???

yeah no worries, pm me

SNewham · 6th April 2007, 01:30

woooh awesome again Steve. I'm struggling to keep up lol

I'm loving this new light pimping craze of yours

I can't wait to give mine a go

stevenet15 · 6th April 2007, 01:32

they look loads better in person the photos do not give them gustice at all

TU-Tuning · 6th April 2007, 01:46

Awesome. You have a pm

stevenet15 · 6th April 2007, 01:56

i got a feeling i'm gona get a load of pm's as i dont think anyone is going to be up for making there own lol i will sort something out for everyone and stick it in the for sale section in the next day or so

TU-Tuning · 6th April 2007, 01:58

You could make a fair bit of money if you copied MK1 dials onto the plastic mate, all the people with MK1 saxos that couldnt do the blue LED dials mod would be able to. Could make you a few quid

stevenet15 · 6th April 2007, 02:01

yeah i could but its a bit of a mission, may look into it in the future but got alot of other things on at the moment

riggsy · 6th April 2007, 02:27

They look vert smart mate!

Get some more pics....

T4JEE · 6th April 2007, 08:44

Just how does he do it? Right im heading off to the sale section.....

yerdusk · 6th April 2007, 10:22

looking good mate, you really have started something havent you?!

stevenet15 · 6th April 2007, 14:02

dials now in the forsale section:
http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...ewpost&t=75691

richo · 6th April 2007, 14:14

Mate are you just replacing the dials without the green filtesr, so theres no actual need to change bulbs/led's at all?

And once again, an amazing Guide.

Over to for sale section.

SNewham · 6th April 2007, 14:31

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Originally Posted by richo

Mate are you just replacing the dials without the green filtesr, so theres no actual need to change bulbs/led's at all?

And once again, an amazing Guide.

Over to for sale section.

well if you want them to be blue then yeh you need to change the led to a 5mm blue one..

stevenet15 · 6th April 2007, 15:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by richo

Mate are you just replacing the dials without the green filtesr, so theres no actual need to change bulbs/led's at all?

And once again, an amazing Guide.

Over to for sale section.

yeah its a new dial with no green filter sou can put what ever leds u want behind it, i'm doing mine blue so i need 4 blue leds (one for each icon) and one red led to go behind it