R33 Dash Light Bulb

[WhitePrincess]

boys and girls, does anyone know what type of bulbs and how many are there on the back of a r33 dash? i want to replace the original ones with led bulbs.

unfortunately it's a bit of a journey to find out myself as you have to take the dash out to have a look...

does anyone have a dash to just quickly check or knows what the bulbs are?? your input is highly appreciated.

ps. if anyone has or can get some photos of the bulbs that would be awesome! thanks.

[R33S2]

Be aware that LED's dont shine like normal globes they have/are a more direct kind of light, have you seen them being used in a dash?

Neon dash lihgts might look good too.

[cowie165]

The R32 bulbs (and generally used for car instrument panels) are 12V 3W bulbs. I have just replaced mine with 12V 5W bulbs for a little extra light.

Without intending to be rude, please try a search for things like 'LED' 'dash' and so on. There have been quite a few threads in the last few weeks with people (self included) replacing incandescent lights with LEDs.

As far as your dash goes, I agree with R33S2 - the LEDs are unlikely to work. Apparently if you cut the top of (ie. flatten the head) they will diffuse light more like a bulb but I can't confirm until Friday.

Cheers.

[dezz]

same as the lights in your parkers, and side indicators on the R33...

can get them at autobarn and all those stores...they're the wedge style globes....they should know at the store which 1's you need, but just tell them its exactly the same as parker globes...

we used 5 in my R33 S2 cluster, and they come in packs of 2 so you need 3 packs...

monza (sold at autobarn) make a triple led with 3 little LEDs on the top rather than 1 big 1...i used that just to spread the light better....as mentioned above, it wont look like a factory dash because LEDs dont spread the light as well, but mine still looks good

[WhitePrincess]

sweet dezz, thanks.. got a pic?

[dezz]

sweet dezz, thanks.. got a pic?

nope not yet...been to lazy, and its hard to take photos of lit up dash's etc without a tripod...the camera moving at all makes it all blurry. ill try get a half decent pic of it soon for you