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Keeping gauge cluster one color?

By CatchMeIfYouCan631 · Jan 19, 2009in Off-Topic💬 3 posts👁️ 1,294 views
Posted Jan 19, 2009 · 13:43 UTC#1

My fiance' has an 06 Mustang. During the day, her gauge lights are white, and green at night. She absoluely hates the green and wants them to stay white..

 

I'm not sure how exactly they work like that but my guess would be the Parking light wire triggers a built-in relay to switch power to the green LED circuit, does that seem right? If it is I'm pretty confdent that I can change the wires around so that the cluster doesn't get triggered by the Parking lights, therefore keeping them white. What do you guys think?

 

Thanks in Advance,

CMIYC

Posted Jan 19, 2009 · 14:38 UTC#2

if you disconnect it there will be no backlight at all on the gauges, thus rendering them useless. You might try taking the cluster out and changing the LEDs if there are any, to a color of your choice.

Posted Jan 19, 2009 · 14:46 UTC#3

Tried that already. Had a friend of mine who does LED conversions turn them to white. No idea why, but none of the new LED's worked and then the old ones didn't work when he tried putting them back. Had to get a new cluster. My guess would be that they run on a series and he messed up on one, but his work is too clean to think that. So you're saying I can't take the parking light trigger wire in the cluster, and cut that? I don't see how that'd inhibit all power going to the cluster.