LED Dash Light Conversion for Ford Rangers

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Sup peeps!!
This is ALL the information I gathered off forums and videos and what I believe is the PROPER way to do custom color LED dash lights for ford rangers.
I tried to keep it as short as possible but there is a lot of information that’ll make the job 10x easier.
Please leave a like and comment down below if I should do a video on changing the color of the climate control switch panel.
Hope you enjoyed the vid!
Get your LEDs here: superbrightLEDs.com
(Not sponsored)
- the LEDs you will need are 194s or you can search for your vehicle and choose dash lights
- NOTE when ordering your dash lights, look up your vehicle and see if it needs CAN bus lights. IT WILL DING IF YOU DO NOT PUT IN CAN BUS LIGHTS AND YOUR TRUCK NEEDS THEM.
These are the exact bulbs I got but you can decide which ones you want since these are a little pricy: www.superbrigh...
Good luck!
Post your finished project on insta and tag me @bobbdrice! I want to see how it looks!

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@superbrightleds 2 года назад

Solid choice going with red, white and blue! Great tutorial video and thanks for the shout-out 🙂

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

Turned out better than I could have imagined! Thank you!

@tayler2396 2 года назад

Nice job. You have a talent for instructional videos - well organized, detailed, and with pleasant voice. I hope you make more videos because I have the same truck. This video helped me remove and clean out my instrument panel. Two of the three top plastic holes on the top of the bezel also broke on my truck! I'm trying some JB Weld to make new supports. Well, I'll see. Also, btw, I found an easy mod for adding a toggle to switch off the annoying door chime when working on/cleaning your truck. Lmk if you don't know it yet. Thanks again for posting. It helped a lot.

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

Thank you! I’ll get better with more videos. Was a little nervous watching back this vid haha. Glad I was able to help!! Let me know if the JB weld works. And that might be a video on its own to remove the chime! I don’t know how to remove the chime

@tayler2396 2 года назад

@@Poolboybob The nice thing about this mod is that you don't have to remove the chime; just add a switch, and then you can turn it off when you're doing something with your door open. I like the chime to work other times because it keeps me from locking my keys in. It's really easy to do. I will throw together a quick video for you, and then, if you like the idea, you can make a much better video for your people. You've got at least 37, I see ;-)

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

@@tayler2396 sick! I’m looking forward to this video! Since I have a quick release steering wheel on my ranger, we had to cut a lot of the wires off so the chime only works when the key is turned, so I always forget them in the ignition, especially because my power door locks stopped working. Lol. Thanks my man!

@supernova6177 Год назад

4:00 u said be careful lmfaooooo

@williamclark6704 5 месяцев назад

Just did my 2005 ranger and the bulbs werent 194s they were actually the PC74s the 194 didnt fit but still managed to get the right size and change them out nice work on yours

@vertex235 7 месяцев назад

This is awesome I wanna do this to my 03 grand marquis but all white leds going for a modern look

@youliveyoulearn 6 месяцев назад

I just got a 08 ford ranger with 106k miles. I want to do this but idk if I have the time to do all this. Good job though!

@firedetectorr 21 день назад

"how to do it the right way" *immediately pulls out a fork in his tool spread*

@Poolboybob 10 дней назад

@@firedetectorr sometimes the best method isn’t the most conventional method!

@huntermiracle7333 2 года назад

So I’m wanting to do the same thing except all red for my Gauge cluster since my truck is red. Mines a 2002 4.0 xlt same dash and everything obviously. So I just need 6 of the red ‘194-RHP5’s???

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

Yep the only difference in the whole process would be buying all red LEDs. Did this on my buddies red ranger and it turned out phenomenal! But the red doesn’t dim as much as the other colors so keep that in mind. It never bothered me when driving though

@jakeb5361 8 месяцев назад

What grit did you use?

@Tyler.254 7 месяцев назад

150 grit

@kentuckyfriedchicken6214 Год назад

Hey man, the link for the LED lights no longer works, do you mind puting up a new link for the same LED light please.

@F.J._Claes 2 года назад

I replaced mine with new led bulbs. The problem is for some reason one of the new led bulbs seems to go off every now and then. It stays off for some time and then it comes on again all by itself.

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

If you’re willing to give it a shot, I’d try swapping that LED with another one from the cluster and see if what happens. I recently started having an issue with one of my blue LEDs that flickers. For some reason it doesn’t do it when I dim the lights so I just keep ‘em constantly dimmed and haven’t bothered replacing it haha

@TTime685 Год назад

@@Poolboybobcause you bought those cheap ass leds lol.. Flickering is due to excess heat damage over time. Next time don't cheap out ;) They make regular incandescent colored bulbs too

@koretechx1 11 месяцев назад

This was a very good tutorial. Some of what you showed wasn't visible due to being zoomed in too far though.

@ernestozapata1968 Год назад

How you took the bulbs out the black part, sorry I don't know the name, lol

@Poolboybob 11 месяцев назад

Just shimmy them out, they’re a bit tight but try not to use tools on the bulb itself

@ernestozapata1968 11 месяцев назад

Thank you very much, appreciate!!!

@sethweston5852 2 года назад

How many lights does the ranger need?

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

I’d order 6 to be safe. Heard some can have 5.

@weisskingtrouble 2 года назад

Do you think this process would be roughly the same on the 93-94 faceplates considering its a different style?

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

I wouldn’t be able to say yes or no unfortunately. But I do believe I read something that rangers old enough have clear faceplates and green lights so you can just swap the color of the lights. I don’t know exactly what years that is tho

@bucksinsix2591 Год назад

I did it on my 94 and it works but only has one spot for the white bulb and 2 spots for the other colors so the white blends a bit - also comes through a bit green - still a good look

@youngreaperman Год назад

@bucksinsix2591 how many leds did u need?

@2H2521 2 года назад

Is it hard to make the speedometer calibration accurate after taking off the needle?

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

It just takes some patience and good taping. It’s real easy to slightly twist the needle when putting it back on so just try to line it up as well as possible. It turned out really good on this ranger so I have hope you could do the same

@2H2521 2 года назад

@@Poolboybob Thanks for the help, man. I actually already installed LED’s on my cluster, but now I bought another cluster off an ‘03 Ranger that has really cool silver gauges & that actually has a tachometer which I had been wanting. I need to take the speedo needle off to get to the odometer mileage & then swap out one with the other for the original mileage of my truck. I hope it’s not too difficult as you said, I’m not sure if I trust myself to do it.

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

@@2H2521 you got it man! Just think about the best way to do it, meaning having the key off, key on, or have the truck running. Some needles sit on little pins that are pushed into the face of the cluster that might need to be removed to get the most accurate position. Best of luck to yah!

@2H2521 2 года назад

@@Poolboybob Thank you, man. I’ll be back if I need any assistance if you don’t mind.

@paullehnherr3323 Год назад

What year Ranger is this?

@Poolboybob Год назад

Issa 2000

@williamclark6704 5 месяцев назад

Also if you or anyone on here has ever changed the bulb on the 4x4 switch and the headlight switch to LEDs please comment or have a video on it ive been tryna find some but theres nothing

@kamryn7496 2 года назад

You could of went to the junk yard an got a cluster with a rpm gadge to that’s what I’ve done easy to swap the mileage over to

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

That was my only concern with that swap. I would love to have a tac but it’s the least of my worries at this point haha. Buddy did that conversion. If I get around to it I’ll make a vid

@ericwilkes238 Год назад

Does anybody make a glue to glue the broken plastic pices back to gether

@l-train2098 2 года назад

When changing incandescent to LED does it affect the dimmer switch to dim it up or down?

@Poolboybob 2 года назад

Yeah! So, the red is the one color that doesn’t dim very well. The rest of the colors dim very well for night driving. And the red doesn’t bother me at night either