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at a gues i'd say the side that is dark or dimly lit, is because the leds on that side are the wrong way around.. the dim light will be the remainder light from the other side.. just try truning the LED around on the side that's dark.. if not check the LED is making contact

ok i just remembered something. yea i dumbly put the LED in the wrong way with 2 of them so got that fixed...AND i just remembered ...ive got blue light emitted but just remembered that i had ordered the WHITE led's :S ....can we do something about this? ive still got the packaging and have had less than an hr's use...

Blue means you have blue film behind the dials it's put in some of the dashes to reduce the amount of yellow light from the factory globes, if you look at the odometer you'll notice it's pure white (as there is no film over it) but the dials will be blueish, it's covered a fair few times in the LED sale thread, some cars have the film some don't, all R34's have it.

All our globes are colour coded, white base, white bulb, blue base, blue bulb.

This is a late model 180SX with it, note areas of pure white which are circled, this is the true colour of the globes showing through in areas without the blue plastic film

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This is what blue looks like installed, it really is very blue

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i have your blue leds installed in my r34 dash and aircon and the lighting isn't really even .. you can see how its darker and weaker in some spots. My throughts are this is because they're directional leds.

wouldn't it give better, more even light coverage if it was a single led (instead of 4x3v small ones) and non-directional ??

i have your blue leds installed in my r34 dash and aircon and the lighting isn't really even .. you can see how its darker and weaker in some spots. My throughts are this is because they're directional leds.

wouldn't it give better, more even light coverage if it was a single led (instead of 4x3v small ones) and non-directional ??

A single LED gives horrific results, they're even worse for lighting as they tend to have a more directional design than the rectangle LEDs and less output. I've even tried some newer cree diodes and can't get the coverage of this tri-led design. The main problem with the R34 dash is you're trying to illuminate a large dash with 4 small bulbs. The R33's have 5 large T10's to light the dash up so look much better.

Even with the stock bulbs I can see light and dark patches in the R34 dash, it's just poorly designed. When you put a brighter bulb in it's more noticeable.

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Just bought the white ones yesterday prob will install them next weekend i hope it's not too hard to do this.

Mate its a piece of piss! Print this guide out and follow it, its great - http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Re...lu-t228667.html Just remember to check the globes are in the the right direction and working before putting everything back together. I put 1 globe in at a time and the tested it, as you work across the cluster you'll see it light up with each globe.

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