They're not LED's stock. The only LED's in the dash, stock, are the indicator lights in the gauge cluster. All the general illumination are small incandescent bulbs. Some of them depending on location have a small blue sleeve over the bulb that doesn't really give it a blue appearance, just a very slight tint of the color to remove the yellow.
It is very cheap and doing the cluster is cheap too if you know what you are doing lol
yeh but they only do 03-07 there’s not a lot of options for 99-02 besides a few guys on ebay who do repairs.
About how long does it take for the cluster to arrive after ordering it?
Typically takes 3-5 work days. They also send you the return label and you wrap your old one in the same wrapping and put in box and label it and send back with Fed Ex, if I remember right. When you do that, they notify you that the new cluster you just received is now lifetime warranty.
The blue I was thinking of was the digital segmented display.
VFD - vacuum flourescent on those displays. The color is partially the display technology, but I'm pretty sure the plastic window over it is tinted blue, as well.
I placed my cluster order last night from digital dash solutions. I just hope it was the step motor that caused the temp indicator to go wonky. Also I ordered a Headlamp Dimmer Switch Replacement and climate control module from Amazon. Can't wait to install everything.
I've got the blue backlit gauges in my 04. It looks really nice. I've got a picture of it in the build thread on my truck, and a picture of the stepper motor failing and telling me I had astronomical oil pressure...
Mine haha
If you have a live data scanner, you can compare stepper motor readings with actual scanner readings. I was getting way high oil pressure readings, like @INW-Iron-Steel had.
Do you recommend a good scanner that won't break the bank?
I've got the Innova 5610 for my OBD 2 cars. It will do live stream and bidirectional tests. It also has some of the specific "manufacture" functions... though they may not all be there depending on the vehicle. It's not exactly "cheap" (couple hundred bucks), but it is about the best you can get without forking out multiple thousands of dollars on a "shop level" scanner that will do the bidirectional stuff.
www.innova.com
