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[1984mini25]

Got fed up of not being able to see dials at night due to poor lighting.

So

I decided to add a few red LED’S

From this

[1984mini25]

To this
What do ya think?


Any ideas for lighting up the switches
Don’t really like fiddling around in the dark

Any light on the subject would be helpful

[mini_sam]

cooooooooooool i like!

[wobbit]

that looks gud mate

[Ollie180]

wow nice that looks cool

nice one :wink:

[1984mini25]

does mean that my face lights up a bit

but hay

[Jackman]

They look good, im eventually going to do a similar thing, its very hard to see my speedo at night :S

As for the switches you can get led's which can be directed to locations for a few quid each... cant remember where ive seen them though.

[1984mini25]

led's which can be directed to locations

Didn't see any in Halfords but will keep looking

The led's I have used were from Halfords
Got 4 in a pack for £4.99 and come in various colours


Not bad considering when I got a flashing on for an alarm installation cost £5 for one

[Miniman]

Looks really good. how did you go about hooking them up, did you put them on the same curcuit as the lights.

[Jackman]

Got it

Look around halfway down, they are more expensive than i remember.

Point Lights is what they are called.

[1984mini25]

All they need is a power and earth

Don’t use much power so just wired them into the sidelights
Behind the switch

The top wire is main beam (blue)
The middle is live all the time (brown)
And the bottom one is the sidelights (red)

But might be different on other minis

Have a look with a test light
See what happens when the switch in different positions

and u can get an earth from any were behind the dials
mines taken from a screw behind the heater switch pannel

[1984mini25]

thanks they look better than the others ive seen

would work with the chrome and red thing going on inside


got the micro led's too but in Halfords u can get them in

red, blue, green, orange, purple, yellow and a few othes that i can't think of at mo

[Jammy]

When I read your first post I thought 'chav' immediately, but honestly they look pretty dam good!

[Miniman]

you could just put a neon light in your car then you would be able to see teh switches

[1984mini25]

I am in to modded, custom and classic cars

Have a few mates that I’ve done work for
Brakes, lowering, ice installs etc

But I would rather have a mini

I’M NOT A CHAV !!!!!