i have them in white, in the guage cluster, center console, and license plate lights. they do look good.

 

How do they look in the center console? What size bulb are they? I was under the impression that if you put these in you'd get skewed colors because the center console panels have colored backing. I want to get the whole center console blue, but donno if it would look weird. :-\ Any thoughts?

 

How do they look in the center console? What size bulb are they? I was under the impression that if you put these in you'd get skewed colors because the center console panels have colored backing. I want to get the whole center console blue, but donno if it would look weird. :- Any thoughts?

there the ones to replace 74's. i got them all in white, so no colors are skewed. it looks good, its a nice clean cool white. i would say stick with white, blue would make the red look purple. i got out of the whole colored bulbs/leds a while ago. i only get white to replace any of my interior bulbs, and if its a turn signal or license plate lights. i just like the look of white leds. its just clean.

 

It's all personal preference, just get the color that you like best.

Those look good! I might get some myself in the future when I have time.

 

Yeah! I was amazed with the quality of them! The dim function works perfectly and everything as well as the light dispersement. I thought for sure there were gonna be dim spots on the gauges. I think I might go with blue for the center panels just because I wanna keep the blue theme going.

Milky, how many of those bulbs are located behind the climate control panel?

 

Yeah! I was amazed with the quality of them! The dim function works perfectly and everything as well as the light dispersement. I thought for sure there were gonna be dim spots on the gauges. I think I might go with blue for the center panels just because I wanna keep the blue theme going.

Milky, how many of those bulbs are located behind the climate control panel?

i just got these bulbs yesterday along with the center panel and ash tray bulbs in blue also...i put them all in today but its still light out so ill let you know if the blue interferes with the ac controls or anything and post a pick if i can

edit: just to be clear i got blue for the ac control panel

 

so basically, the picture of the bulbs is the one we should buy if we want these LEDs?

 

No, click on the 'bulbs' link. Its in caps and underlined.

 

Those bulbs are hot. Putting them on my want list.

 

being low on cash i got the cheapest ones...the first 74 bulbs listed

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=CAR&keywords=&cart_id=1321721.12715&next=50

and pics will come with darkness

 

I love superbrightleds.com . I get quite a few bulbs from them.

 

here what i installed..im extremely happy with the gauge bulbs and reccommend them to anyone but the hvac lighting didnt work to well. the blue is hardley noticable

i took out the ash tray in order to illuminate the little well in front of the shifter

sry for the poor quality i dont have a fancy high end camera :sosad:

 

For the HVAC 74 bulb, you probably should've gone with the the High Power SMD, either the one or 3 SMD version.

 

Yeah, I have to agree. The first 74 bulbs listed are regular LED's, not SMD LED's. The SMD LED's are flat and use filament, which give you an even light dispersement instead of a directional beam as with conventional LED's. If you go with the SMD LED's you should get much better quality. I'm buying them on Friday.

Anyone know which SMD LED's to get? Do I need to have the base along with it, or can I just put them in the base already given.

I'm just gonna buy these ones hopefully. I haven't taken apart the AC/cluster for a long time, and never looked at the bulbs. Hopefully these will work:

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-...s.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=CAR&cart_id=1321721.12715&next=50#74-x

I'm not getting the regular LED ones, I'm getting the ones under the first one. THey're listed for $2.49 a piece. How many bulbs are there? (behind the AC cluster, behing the dehumidifier button, and behind the cigarrette lighter) I'm guessing 4 but I'm not sure... Any help on this would be great! =] Thanks!

 

For the HVAC 74 bulb, you probably should've gone with the the High Power SMD, either the one or 3 SMD version.

yes i realize that now...thats what you get for goin the cheap route huh

How many bulbs are there? (behind the AC cluster, behing the dehumidifier button, and behind the cigarrette lighter) I'm guessing 4 but I'm not sure... Any help on this would be great! =] Thanks!

theres two 74s for the ac controls and theres one for the ash tray...the dehumidifier is a very tiny bulb i dont know the size of and pretty sure they dont make leds for

 

How many bulbs do you need to buy to complete the whole car

 

you need 3 194 bulbs to complete the gauge cluster. I believe 2 74 bulbs to complete the climate control cluster. Anything else... I'm not sure. lol. I'm trying to find that out myself!

 

For the main gauge portions, 3 194. Most of the other ones on the cluster are 74 I think. HVAC is either 1 or 2 74, I can't remember. Ash tray and automatic shifter is a 74. Cig lighter can't really be changed because the 74 bulb is soldered in to the socket. Trunk light(1) and license plate lights(2) are 194.

List of the other bulbs for Corolla:
http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/AutomotiveLighting/LampReplacementGuide/AutoLRG-Results.htm

 

Trunk light(1) and license plate lights(2) are 194.

Any tips on getting the lamp enclosures out for the license plate? It seems like it should just be two squeeze clips, but the thinner of the two clips doesn't seem like it wants to pull out.

 

its 2 for the hvac. i used the 3 smd led ones. and it lit up perfectly. and you can change the cig lighter. its just a pain to do.

 

Milky, those are the LEDs that have one on the top and two on the sides right?

 

The 74-xHP3 if I'm not mistaken?

Could you supply some pics?

 

Yeah, that should be the one.



Milky, I'd be interested too in seeing some pics of the gauge cluster and center console in white.

 

Yeah, that should be the one.



Milky, I'd be interested too in seeing some pics of the gauge cluster and center console in white.

ask and ye shall recieve. i have not torn apart my ac button to change it over yet, but will when i have the black hvac.

 

also please note the reason you dont see the ash tray light or the cig lighter is because my lower half of my dash is out of the car right now. but will update the pics when i put it back in.

 

No luck changing the A/C button backlight?

 

Damn, I'm liking the white scheme too. I was going to get blue to keep my blue/black/green theme going, but I'm leaning more towards white now.

Thanks for the pics!

 

Milky, are those the warm-white bulbs? or cool-white?

Lookin nice though!

 

It's gotta be cool white. Warm white would be more yellow-ish.

 

cool white. there the smd 3 led kind. and as for the ac button you have to take apart the button and solder in the correct led. its a bit harder. i will also do the same to the led clock and rear defroster, but the red on the hazards is ok in my scheme.

and white is pretty ballin. its a clean look. it dosent get old really.

 

Wow that looks good!

 

pure white faces with no off-color overlay:

98 corolla with slight off-color overlay.