Are the seat heater switches supposed to be illuminated with the headlights?
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Are the seat heater switches supposed to be illuminated with the headlights?
Yes, but it's a rather faint light.
( see the pictures in post #89 in this thread https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/led-instrument-panel-gauge-cluster.409313/page-5#post-8435815 )
Looking great @LEX, thanks for the pictures!
Lol I was hoping you'd tackle that for us! I'm really not sure either and I've got one that's burnt out anyway so I'm pretty keen to figure it out. Maybe I'll have time to get at it on Sunday...You're welcome!
Now how do I get to the bulbs for the rear quarter window buttons? I've searched but couldn't find anything.
Update on my instrument panel LED lights. I didn't like the "bluish" tint from the LED bulbs (6000K) I put in my Land Cruisers instrument panel (just the 6 that illuminate the instrument cluster), so I ordered some 3,000 K (warm light) LEDs from this site below:
http://www.ledlight.com/t5-mini-wedge-canbus-3-led-3528-smd.aspx
With these 3000 K (warm light) LEDs, the white parts on the instrument panel look more white, more like the original incandescent but brighter. I like this much better. Its not as bright the LX470 dash lights, but better!
Also, I used a 9V battery to determine positive side of the LED bulbs and marked the socket with a paint pen, then I put only one in each side of the instrument panel to see if I had the polarization right, and once I figured out the polarization of instrument panel holse, it was easy to get the 2 on each side in correctly. If you are looking at the back of the instrument cluster, at the six main illumination lights, the 2 on the far left go in the same direction (polarization) and the 2 on the far right go in in the opposite direction (polarization), hopefully this make some sense. However, I'm stumped on the two in the middle; I can't really tell if the two in the middle are on or not, but my dash is lit up and I'm not taking it apart again.
One note, my speedometer needle doesn't seem as bright as the tach needle? I'm wondering if this is because I don't have those center lights in properly? Anyone else who has done these LEDs notice this?
Lee
2000 Land Cruiser
2004 LX470