Has anybody been able to change the color of the gauge cluster lights? I would like to be able to have the lights be blue. Can you just replace the bulbs to a blue one or is it the gauge faces themselves that determine the color?

 

You can replace the covers that go on the bulbs, but remember that you'll never get the same pattern of brightness if you change from stock.
~Tom

 

Couldn't you just replace the bulbs? Are they not replaceable? I would think that they would probably need replacing anyways since the car is about 8 years old.

 

I've taken my gauge cluster apart and there are no covers that go on the bulbs. They're just regular colored bulbs, I think it's actually the face gauges that light up red.

 

They're replacable but the bulbs in the gauge cluster come in two different sizes. One is a regular small wedge bulb and the other size is a miniature wedge bulb. I've looked almost everywhere for the mini wedge bulbs in different colors but no one sells them. I've heard the only place you can buy those mini bulbs in diff colors are places that sell stuff for semi trucks. If you replace only the regular size wedge bulbs then only about half the gauge cluster will be the right color... actually it won't even be the right color because the stock face gaues are red backlit. So assuming even if you got all blue bulbs and kept the stock face gauges, your gauge cluster backlighting will now be blue + red = purple. :p

 

Oh, yeah i've never taken apart my cluster, but someone said they were covers. I guess that was wrong. I remember some pictures of different colored guages and the colors weren't evenly bright. They said that's what happens when you change colors. That was my main point anyway.
~Tom

 

So what color are the stock bulbs? If I replace the stock gauge face with one that will have a blue lighting will I still be able to use the stock bulbs?

 

The stock light bulbs are not colored so your gauge cluster will light up whatever color your gauge face backlit is.

 

i know it's very "rice" but you could always go and buy that bulb paint (they sell it everywhere) and spray your bulbs whatever color you want... i don't know how it effects the briteness though.

 

putting blue bulbs in the back isn't a good idea because they won't be strong enough to penetrate the actual gauges. So the result is that the color will be very dim and hard to see at night. A good idea is to get the white gauge faces from corksport and then out blue bulbs behind there. That seems to work a lot better.