Come down and do LED's in mine? lol. I'd go with white, No fancy colors for me haha
If you go white for your switches, you might as well leave the incandescent bulbs in. (not gonna lie, 88-94 aren't a whole lot of fun to retrofit.) lol. Unless them bulbs are burnt out. Which would then make this a maintenance project, not a fun project
And maintenance is never any fun.
(personally, I'd go with warm white LEDs to maintain 100% stock look, and cool white LEDs for "fresher" illumination. Pure white is hard to come by in component form and I wouldn't think it'd be worth the hassle of trying to find and then put behind switches. It'd be worth it for gauge illumination, which I might have to resort to for my HVAC...)
For whatever reason, I don't consider teal/green fancy. Maybe its just a mentality I have that keeps me (in my head) separated from the ricer and the *ahem* african american car modification community. Red and green are nice night colors and in my book aren't too ricey (still a bit ricey), but just about anything else is too much. Mind you, my favorite color is blue, so I'm not being biased.
Got home to find out dad is going down to the south house (his gf's) and he forgot to drop off some supplies that I need for my next mini project. His van is a mobile shoppe so its the life blood of almost everything I do to MY truck. I can twist wires and electrical tape sh*t together without a care on other people's trucks, but my truck its either wire connectors in the field or solder in the house. No exceptions. And I need wire connectors and some dremel tool bits. Not worth the gas to go back into town to buy some, plus he gets em surplus.
So, tomorrow I can work on my mini project. Which I shall inform you and remind myself of: Got 12v acc. outlets from that ole' scrap truck that belonged to a kid I know. Thankfully they were intact with the plastic cause the rest of the truck is vandalized and beaten to hell with a sledge hammer and an axe. (The traditional "send-off" for any vehicles going to the SCRAP yard)
With these 12v outlets, I shall cut out and mount one of them up under the dash WAY out of sight and then wire the outlet to a switch. I shall then plug my GPS charger/nessicary-to-run-it-for-longer-than-five-minutes plug into it and thus remove the chord I've been stumbling on when I hop in my truck or sometimes accelerate. Then I can turn the outlet on with a switch and BOOM, GPS is powered and I have two open stock 12v outlets (the outlets dedicated to cig lighters always are ). Plus, it all looks stock. Which is what this kid LOVES to do.
Might as well change the oil today... the god damn thing is probably 6000 miles over-due. Chebus Jisht.
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