dash light color

[Dave]

Dose anyone know if you can change the color of the dash lights on the 2001 miata

[brock]

I don't know about a 2001, but my 97 had green plastic covers over the bulbs.

I guess that if you found some other colored covers for the bulbs then you could fairly easily change the color. This is purely based on the 97 dash, though.

[Majik]

The dash isnt the hard part, it is getting the radio to be the same color that is hard.

[tailchaser]

OK... I give... what color do you want it to be?

[channelmaniac]

Well... there are a few ways to go the radio...

If it uses bulbs... you replace the little condoms with different colors or you remove 'em and put in LEDs...

You could also get transparent model paint and use that on the bulbs - I know there's red paint available as that's what I used on the speedo needles on my 92 B&T when I put in new gauges. There's probably yellow/orange too but not sure on other colors. Red & yellow/orange colors are used on scale model taillights.

If it uses LEDs then you have to remove them and put in new ones...

Either way, if you need little bitty soldering done then come up to my hood. I have a Pace MBT-250 soldering station with most of the irons and surface mount attachments.

Raymond

[POS Racing]

So what do you do with the LCD display in the Radio? I do believe that's what Majik was eluding too.

Can you use covers?

[channelmaniac]

Yes...

Most of the LCD displays are lit by a plastic panel that covers and redirects light from LEDs or bulbs with those little condoms on them.

For the EL Backlit ones you are more or less hosed... Some you can hack on the voltage inverter circuitry to see if it changes colors with different voltage. But that's not for the faint of heart.

RJ

[Majik]

I have just heard its a beotch to get the radio apart and change the stuff because it is all so small...

[tailchaser]

Yeah... you should probably practice on your cell phone first...

What color? Seriously? It's already orange. Blue looks cool... but it gets annoying at night.

[channelmaniac]

Can't be near as complex as a Yaesu 767GX and I've had that radio apart a few times... Gotta do it again to fix the dial this time...

All you need is a good bench and some small tools... If you want to experiment on a radio just bring it over & we'll work on it on my little electronics worktable.

RJ