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I am considering organising a GROUP BUY for the supply of these custom light up panels just like you guys are asking for, based on how much of a response I get.

These have ONLY the letters lighting up just as you guys are trying to do, with a stealth look in the day, giving it a stock Series 2 finish when they lights aren't on. They also would be available matched up to your cars paint colour code (the one shown is done in Series 2 Silver), with any colour LED. White is very effective as you can see, although a variety of other colours will be also available. The panel can then be wired up to come on with the headlights/parkers, or just the brakes or even just in when its the reverse lights come on.

Please PM me if your interested to get this Group Buy going.

How'd you go with painting these, is there a coat of black everywhere bar the letters and has the letters got plastic primer and a coat of white paint? will red shine through this as it looks like u used super bright white. I don't want to try if it will stuff it up that is all.

Does anyone know what is used in the clear factory ones to make them light up, as i have ordered my series1 garnish without seeing it at all, and the bloke on the phone has said it is chrome. now whether he classifies the s1 ones as chrome is another thing. If it is it would be a waist to paint it, and i will be getting chrome led lights eventually.

i got bad luck farken!. finished the painting today and all the build and shizz. just needed to get it wired in. managed to stuff it up somehow and lose functioning brake lights.

another thing, the garnish itself is shitting me. the one time i managed to get it hooked up right to the car, i light it up full of anticipation and what do i see but -K---NE!

only four out of my 16 led array work. so i had to cut off the sickaflex (man i used alot) from the back, break the loctite adhesions, remove all the blown leds and replace (thank god for that generous jaycar dude). wire it back up and connect to car. POP same four leds surviving. its like they kill the rest cos they r jealous or sumshit.

i tried replacing just the surving leds but they pop too. wtf? time for another trip to jaycar and a new approach. will try Al's circuit this time. dunno y mine didnt work. maybe the resistor isnt big enough?

on the plus side, my painting has improved slightly. although that too is far from perfect. sigh. 'nite fellas

yeah i did that, was shitting myself :) fixed it in the end :wave: its a fuse, its in the boot, its red... thats all i remember...

good luck with making it work :rofl:

I have also designed a new board that is 1) red with lights on 2)more red with brakes one and 3)blue on a switch

so its always red (whenever activated) then you can turn blue on to mix it up a bit :O can also make the blue turn OFF on brakes... nearly blew my head up designing it :wave:

If the resistor is not big enough it should blow more, i would say they are not connected into the right terminal, might be getting a short between the anode and the kathode. Test the board with a multimeter on ohms.

No doubt the factory facia has the best illumination. But i just didn't like th aqua colour on a pearl red car ;)

I am more then happy with how mine turned out :/

yeah im with ya there the bluey aqua colour goes good with the white, maybe even black and some various other colours but as for the red i reckon u've done a awesome job and it looks tidy too, good job

I am considering organising a GROUP BUY for the supply of these custom light up panels just like you guys are asking for, based on how much of a response I get.

These have ONLY the letters lighting up just as you guys are trying to do, with a stealth look in the day, giving it a stock Series 2 finish when they lights aren't on. They also would be available matched up to your cars paint colour code (the one shown is done in Series 2 Silver), with any colour LED. White is very effective as you can see, although a variety of other colours will be also available. The panel can then be wired up to come on with the headlights/parkers, or just the brakes or even just in when its the reverse lights come on.

Please PM me if your interested to get this Group Buy going.

very interested, those bars actually look pretty nice!

Wat size LEDs are ppl using? I went to dick smiths and they only have 16'000 mcb at $4 each.

Now i would guess that 8000 would even be enough, but the silver paint over the skyline letters is in very crappy condition. So im considering painting the whole lot, but no black on the letters, only a coat of primer a coat of white and a coat of clear on the letters. Hence i believe i may need brighter LEDs. Would this show up VERY dull (through the paint)?

What the best thing to use to clean up all the silver paint?

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