Bulbs for Dials and Dash?

AlexYW

Anyone know a place where I could get some blue bulbs to change over from the white standard ones for a Astra coupe? Would really prefer bulbs not LED's, and does the Coupe use the same bulbs as any Astra mk4? Thanks

evocarlos

only blue you will find are t5 leds 🙂

Matt

I've bought stuff from here before: http://www.crazyleds.co.uk/Astra-G-98-04.html

AlexYW

Would something like this be no good then? http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/u509tb-509t-twist-fit-bulb-blue.html

evocarlos

cheaper from crazy 🙂

AlexYW

I bought some LED one's, but they didn't fit too well, the metal bits on the sides seemed to be too big and didn't fit as well or twist on as well the standard ones I took out, and they didn't even work, tried them both ways, so I put the standard ones back in and the LED's must have damaged it cuz now they won't light up.

evocarlos

the ones i bought were a bitch to get working they did well for 5 years then one started flashing and after about a month of flashing it died so i stripped the clocks down an custom installed led strips
https://z22se.co.uk/threads/project-freeze-my-ass-off-rear-poly-bushs-astra-g.22133/page-20#post-1199185

AlexYW

So is a common problem with fitting them? Do you have any tips for fitting the LED's? I'm well pissed off, 2 dials don't even light up at all any more, lucky I don't do much night time driving.
Thinking of just getting some Plasma Dials now, they look so much better.

evocarlos

there are some that are a pain to get working and they need turning round a few times to see if you can get them to work
if you have a multimeter you can set it on diode test to check if you leds work

i looked a plasma dials but for some strange reason i am able to hear the high pitch noise the transformer makes and it drives me mad lol i tryed it with the center display and was just right in color but i could not stand the noise most people can't hear it

AlexYW

I was also wondering about the orange of the MFD and milage display, I heard that you need to take off a filter or put something over it for it to show up blue?

evocarlos

https://z22se.co.uk/threads/mfd-led-mod-white.22010/ 🙂

AlexYW

What were they thinking? Who the hell decided that this awful orange display and horrid grey plastic coated centre console was a good idea?

evocarlos

i like the grey console 🙂 your right about the orange tho

AlexYW

What? You like that grey plastic crap that scratches of as soon as you touch it? Maybe in a 80's car it'd be alright, same with the orange display, but these cars are made in 2000's!

milo

Yep made in 2000's by GM so enough said on quality control lol