Put red LED's in the cruze control pods. I'm thinking about doing a few other things over the next week as I have some help here for the summer.

D.

 

I used griggs ' how to extravaganza ' on his car domain BUT, I didnt do the extensive PCB work he did. Heres some pics...



I took the lead from pin2 ( 3volts ) and ran a series circuit. 470ohm resistor to the voltage side of the led, then ran the the other lead to pin1 ( return/ground. Its the SAME things Griggs came up with. His is more .. ' prettier ' and probably more ' reliable '.

After I was done, I used conformal coating to make sure nothing could short out on exposed leads.

Took less then an hour to do everything including pulling the pods. I have a soldering-workstation with a ' Pace ' kit.. I was just feeling lazy

 

Under the dash and in back are 2 pairs of cold cathodes. Led's/Neons are lame and don't glow with enough intensity for my liking. I USED to have 3x10inch neons under each side of the dash.. now theres only 1 cold cathode on each side. I don't ' kick ' things with my toes anymore.

 

9 or 10 inch ones. the controller is hooked to a switch where my ashtray used to be.

 

No. Theres a relay that goes to the battery and the switch goes to the relay. Theres also a fuse in the mix as well.

 

The gauges are Indiglo overlays. I bought them 3 years ago on ebay for 25$.

Tuner guys don't like my interrior for some reason.. ***** envy maybe? I dunno.

 

Had to take the covers off the side of the steering wheel, 2x 7mm bolts, airbag came out.. 4 philips screws and the pods came out..

About 5 mins disassembly time.. 45 mins soldering ( over guessing on that one ) and a few minutes to put it back together. Wasn't hard at all.