I can see how blue looks. I wonder how white really looks. Hard to say from poor quality pics.

 

You will have to use blue LEDs as the ones in the aircon are amber LEDs.
The filter is really a diffuser to spread the light more evenly across the back of the screen, yours may already be a white filter fitted to later models. earlier ones were amber.

TB

 

White does look much better than the pics show. I'm not a photographer and had problems getting a reasonable pic. Use the flash and it reflects off the screen, take during daytime and lights don't really show up, taken in the dark with no flash and you see the results. Best I could with my instant camera.

 

Thanks!

 

What filter, do you mean a filter to make the warning lights on bottom white? Where do you get such filter? Does it come with the porscheleds kits?

 

No, the difuser [filter] is on the aircon unit behind the LCD display.The bit that shows temp, auto, manual, demist, etc.
Any bit of opaque white plastic will do to make a new one.
The warning lights on the instrument / gauges will look red [orange in my pic]
The digital display on the instruments mph, kph, outside temp, mileage etc will
be white/blue [whatever leds you put in].
The analogue display voltage, oil pressure, speed, rpm etc will be back lit in white/blue [whatever leds you put in].
Hope this helps.

 

Yes good explanation. Thank you.

 

I guess that while you are at it, it makes sense to change the leds behind switches, as in

http://www.porscheleds.com/996int.html

 

Looks like I'll be getting the soldering iron out again. Didn't know half of those switches had lights in them

 

I have a feeling that, after converting those LEDs, the interior should feel visibly more modern/revamped. Post pics if you do it.

 

great job

 

Here's pics of the aicon opened up. The small white squares are the LEDs on the circuitboard that need resoldering. The orange diffuser [replace with white one] can be seen and sits between the Liquid crystal display and the circuitry.

 

Great info, thanks! Are you redoing it?

 

No, couldn't find the photo until now. The car is at the body shop at the moment after someone hit the rear wing when it was parked up

 

OK, so who wants to do this for me. I will pay a ridiculously small amount of money to send my aircon unit to someone and have them do this. Anyone by chance know of anyone near Philly that does/has done/would do this?