I think I might have gone a little overboard on brightness. I'm also contemplating doing some sort of illumination in the switch area that will illuminate the area under the other 3 switches so that you can see them at night as well.

Ultimately I will do the whole interior including gauge cluster, HVAC, floor lighting, dome light, etc. The red theme will be carried out through the gauges and HVAC only. It's a black on black S14, so I thought the red accents would look good. I'll be getting a black w/red stitching shift boot and e-brake lever. to tie it all together.

BUT:

If you do a red dome light, your retarded. Do all your switches and gauges and whatnot in red, do the interior light in WHITE. Practicality as well as aesthetically it's better to do it. I'm serious Ryan, don't do red.

Keep up the good work though, i'm curious to see your 'switch area' illumination. My auto button has never lit up either...

If you want me to, I can fix your light in your switch. I found the regular incandescent bulbs online, or I could do it with a LED. The only potential problem with the LED is that the color MIGHT not match the rest of the interior. Since It's so isolated, I doubt you'd notice.

However, that part is easy -- I want to also change the hvac, radio, and anything else I can find.

I wonder how red will look with the mint green LED lighting that's already on the radio. Maybe go with red cluster and blue elsewhere? I could copy VW

As for size, I'll try and use 5mm wherever possible. This is because you usually have a wider viewing angle available with the 5mm vs. the 3mm. I've heard they're now making 360° viewing angle LED's but I haven't heard much about them.

I'll see if I can't dig up info on 360 deg LEDs.

There are too that face straight down behind the temp control slider, and the vent control buttons. The one behind the fan either faces down, or twords the face.

http://superbrightleds.com/leds.htm

With the way that LED's work, I doubt they are going to be bright enough for the stock configurations. I hope I'm wrong, as that would make it MUCH more simple!

Oh, I also looked at the HVAC again, and we WON'T need those 360° bulbs. The S13's come in from the top, the S14's are on the board inside the unit and face forward. The only problem now will be finding a wide enough angle lens as they don't appear to be very far away from the board. If they're too close we'll get hot and cold spots (in respect to the light output). We would then have to go back to using the 360° bulbs again.

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WAHT DOES THIS FAP MEAN

on the AC button, the light for the letters doenst work, but the green line under it when its on dimly lights up the letters from behind '

how the fck do you fix all this without going through an assload of work?

Maybe you could send $50 and the unit to Ryan and have him do it for you, lol.