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ANOTHER!! Autotoys.com installation.
The
illumination color of this Galant was extremely yellow.
No surprise. The factory uses yellow hue 194/168 bulbs in
many of the dash locations. Now, how do you change the light effect of your factory dash to a bright white light (or blue, or purple or whatever color you want). Well, first take apart the dash board of your car and see what type of bulb your car uses in the dash gauge cluster. Most cars, Japanese and especially Hondas will use 194/168 bulbs and many other cars will also use this size as it is the most common and fits the gauge clusters the best. This bulb can also be found in locations such as air vent lights, ash tray lights, domelights, glove compartments, map lights, and even the shift cluster light. PLEASE
PLEASE do not write us what size your car uses for any part
of these locations. We can help you with headlight sizing
of your car, but we just do not have enough documentation
to verify sizing in all the available types of vehicles
on the road today. By
simply changing the bulb, you can change the yellow light
to a bright white light or color (if you use a color bulb
available in our bulbs department). It will kinda give you
a bright white effect (without the yellow hue) if you use
a superwhite type replacement bulb. We only recommend this for show use only, you perform these modifcations at your own risk. The bulbs we replaced in this article were 5 watt factory which were replaced with 5 watt aftermarket bulbs. |
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This
is the sockets that hold the bulbs in place on the instrument
cluster
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We used PIAA Platinum series 194 bulbs.
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before
and after bulbs
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Before
picture shown above with yellow hue (unaltered)
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After
picture shown. Notice HOW WHITE it is just by changing The yellow illumination is gone from the surrounding area, it is much whiter now (note: The needle and other areas do change, only what was originally illuminated by the 194 factory type yellowish bulbs)
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The
shifter also used a 194/168 bulb. Here is the before shot.
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This
is a shot after we inserted a Piaa 168/194 bulb into the
socket
Notice how white it is. Well, that sums it up. Get rid of the YELLOW!!!! Add some color. Whatever. AUTOTOYS.COM can help you! go to our BULB department or search under "194" and search under "168
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This article shows you how to change the yellowish illumination from your factory bulbs. It will give you illumination without the yellow, which to the naked eye seems brighter. It will not make your dash lights any brighter, only dress it up a bit If you have a question about this photo, this install or something else you plan to do with your car related to this, you can ask us right now in our forums at http://www.autotoys.com/forum - For our customers only, make sure your purchase is from autotoys.com! Get the bulbs in our BULB department! |
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