Dashboard Light Hack! 

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Older cars are even easier. No need to take apart the cluster, just unscrew the bulbs from the back and swap them with whatever you want. New bulbs, or LEDs

Looks like a fun project Kip! Great work!!

Hope you enjoy this project! Thumbs UP if you do and thanks for watching!

That was awesome! Great video, Kip.

Wow, compared to most modern vehicles, the dash of your Jeep is incredibly easy to dismantle. When you first started, I was expecting most of the video to consist of you doing all sorts of contortions while lying on the floor of the vehicle and saying things like "Just gotta remove this screw, and this one, and _this_ one is pretty hard to reach... _now_ what's holding it in? Hmm, better open the hood...." At least that is the way it always seems to go for me when I try to get into a dashboard, only I usually say a lot more bad words. :)

While I was in there I removed that pesky check engine light and seatbelt light 🤷‍♂️

Instructions weren't clear enough, I ran my friend over with car :P

Blue is the worst for night time since your eyes don't adjust as much, reds a better option imp

All you really need is a permanent marker! I colored the LEDs for my phone's keypad blue and it looks awesome!

Remove the cluster. Move the Gas needle. INFINITE GASOLINE!

Kipkay what can I say to you, one of my favorite youtubers. Your videos bewildered me with your fascinating electronic skills. I always wanted to go to college and learn how to invent the things you do and be able to do fun cool things when I was older. RU-vid is dying now and your views are dwindling out. There used to be so many comments you could have never picked mine out but now I might be more noticeable through the crowds. I'll always remember you and your channel and how it was apart of my childhood growing up. I thank you for it. Farewell Kipkay. I hope the absolute best for you

THIS is the reason I subscribed to KipKay years ago. Good work man!

Great video. i was worried for a while you were running out of ideas

color changing back-lights would be cool

Kipkay, I freaking look up to you. I don't know anyone else with that kind of patience!

My car was made before LED's were invented lmfao

You can just color the white in with highlighters and its 8x easier guys

Looks good, but I'm just too afraid to try it out. I feel like I'm going to screw up.

Your latest run of videos has been much better. Cool hacks

finaly, that felt like a kipkay video

Great video! :D

Are there RGB led's out there for this? I feel like I might get bored of blue ones eventually as well, lol.

Yeah man! Just got a 2004 Chevy Impala for work and it needs some serious (not too expensive) appearance mods. This is definitely on my list! And because I already know how and have done soldering projects, this should be fairly simple! I've been researching how to do this, then I remembered this video you made last year! Great tutorial

Did this to my 1995 ford f350 . Looked cool . I was the only one with multicolor dashboard back then

Well done, blue is OK :)

Just roll your mile counter back a few thousend while your at it ;)

Wow super awesome! I did this back in the early 2000's and that was much harder then now days.

One of the coolest hacks yet.

Hmm, could have just put blue tinted plastic to make them blue if you wanted cheap/easy :D

This is awesome, but way to advanced for me, I would screw it up :(

so glad my Miata has twist sockets at the back of the cluster so I don't have to mess with soldering... nice result, but I don't wanna go into my cluster unless I absolutely have to..

Been wanting to do this to my 07 wrangler for a long time. I wanted red lights. Found that I need to change the resistors for red lights. A bit beyond my skill level. I did put some red paper over the blue bright light indicator. Made it much less blinding. If you have any tips regarding idntifying the resistors it they would be appreciated. white/ blue and green leds use the same resistor, red needs a dif one for some reason. Thanks for the video.

Jeeps are too expensive! Can I buy one from Kipkay.com?

Anyone who screws this up will be very, very, very sorry to find out how much a new gauge cluster costs.

I don't think my dad will let me do that in his BMW... hahaha nice video =)

wooowww this looks so much more compicated than with my dash, i did mine a few years back on my mitsubishi lancer, mine was take out two screws take the shroud out, take out the 4 surrounding screws, pull the dashboard out, anticlockwise to pull the old lights out, install the t10/t5 led's screw back in and done. so glad mine wasn't this crazy haha.

Cool hack! I imagine while in there you could do a lot more, but you're supposed to be watching the road anyway... oh well.

Definitely want to do this but ik I'm gonna fuck up my new car and I don't wanna take the chances. Are there people I can hire to do this professionally?

That Jeep would rust out before I got finished doing this. Like Your videos!

Now this is a project thats actually cool and not stupid

Remove that pesky light because who needs seatbelts... logic...

This a super cool project! You make it look so easy :)

My dad and I did something like that on my jeep. we found a kit for it on Amazon and now my dash is green!!! Its pretty awesome. Keep up the good work on your videos you're doing an awesome job!!!

Well this is awesome, but The digital dash in my 1987 Firebird is Awesome as it is, nice job kip!

Kip, what about RGB Led's?! Just imagine that!

U should have done multi colored lights

Dude you explain every step scarily easy and fast. I am a chicken just to mess with stuff from my car :(

Man your the only person who could do this with all the right equipment

Dude made soldering look like child's play lol

Welding LEDs onto an electronic circuit board is hardly what I call a HACK. Looks nice tho.

This one was actually pretty cool!!

Awesome video! This reminds me when I had to replace one burnt dash lightbulb a couple of years back. The car didn’t have LEDs in the dash console, but I used a green permanent marker to coat the lightbulbs. I know, it pays off :)

how to identify a non-petrolhead - when your fun starts when you leave the car and go into the workshop, not the other way arround

How do I get rid of the "seatbelt off" ringer?

Brighter ones are always better. More visibility equals a safer ride. I'll toss around the idea and see if this can get done with one of the cars here.

Finally something usefull from kipkay.

Hey, just draw sharpie over it. That's what I did on my computer.

too much work for lazy people like me

Hey Kip, great instructs, but I feel that you should point out that this works best on nee cars with motorized gauges, like yours. Older cars have sporting-operated gauges, and it isn't simply a matter of marking the end of the needle on some paper. If you pull the needle from an older speedometer, it *will* go out of calibration, and will require a costly trip to a licensed speedometer rebuilder to recalibrate. Not to mention most older clusters don't utilize SMD LEDs for illumination, and some people won't be able to tell the difference until it's too late.

Dat improper surface mount parts removal technique... Good way to lift the pads right off that circuit board..

UPLOADED ON MY BIRTHDAY! :D

that's WAAAY too dangerous! also i thought you gonna make them brighter, not dimmer!

Yet again you amaze me kipkay...yet again.

This is cool... Really cool. I dont Have a car just a motorhome no dashboard. So ill wait for some motorhome hacks. Stay cool!

Wear your seatbelt man

Great, I have just sold my car..

I would do this but with colour coded needle stops so whenever I drive, blue means 40 mph and red means 50 mph. That is a good idea for seniors who can't drive at night too! :D

Awesome I always wanted to change my dash bored lights thanks kip

Lol a good hack to get rid of that pesky seat belt light is to simply PUT ur god damn seat belt on 😂

You literally just replace the LEDs, and that was it.

I recently changed the lights to LEDs in my 89 Cherokee. I changed them to red because it matched my stereo head unit and red light doesn't kill your night vision. My dash was a LOT easier to change out since it's older and used removable bulbs to change

I wish my dashboard was as easy to dissassemble as yours. X3 times the work you did + mine was with lightbulbs ( 2 for entire dashboard) . SO I removed those and installed LED tape lights , 4 pieces with 6LEDS each(green ones ,cuz my car is green and Ive painted my interior green too) , then I made custom holes in the plastic thats over the curcuits to put in X1 red Led under each needle. Then for the display(also with lightbulb) I also put led tape light , also for my clock and date . Also green tape for the console for my headlight and around the AC control . And this all cost me around 2$ no more.I admit it was alot of work cuz unline yours where everything was already with LED's which you just replaced , I had to make room and place for the led tapes and the leds under the needles. BUT im very happy with the results. If anyone wants me to explain how i will be glad to!!

My dashboard has orange and green backlights!

Lol SMD LEDs.

Man! I used to own a VW and nothing makes you miss those indigo and red lights on the dash, like staring at a BORING Jeep dash! Lol. I'm in a Jeep too. Gosh, wish I could hire someone to do this! Lol. Thanks for the b'dass vid!

I'm glad my premium mustang has the options to change to whatever color I'd like :D

Did anyone else notice he had no gas in the car?

Is this legal

wow this is pretty cool kipkay!

this is good if you dont have an instrument cluster that you can already change color with, like in my 06 mustang

If your car had a warranty, it doesn't anymore.

Smh this dude thinks thats hacking

Best video in a long time. Very good work Kip.

After watching this I really appreciate dashboards that have bulbs.

cluster fuked

It´s extremly dangerous to remove the dashboard! The airbag can trigger and hit you in the face.... just sayin´

You can also do all of the rest of your interior lights in LED's. Forks also work well for popping the needles off.

This guy is pretty awesome with cool ideas!

Disclaimer for newbies: If you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't do this hack!

Removing the seatbelt light? Sorry but that's just arrogant. Let's say the one time you forget to put it on is the one time you have a crash...

I wish I had the talent to do that

This guy is so smart, geez.

Nice, I must try this on my auto :)

This is so cool. Very well done.

Nice LED cluster!! 👍🏻👍🏻

I wish i had kipkay's skills

Best video in awhile.

He must have a pretty awesome car because of these hacks 🚗👍

Sweet bro, there is an insane tutorial on changing the orange over to blue like this for 350Z's. You make the desoldering and soldering look easy as pie. I guess I just need practice.