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starfuryt550

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So I have new defroster buttons and wanted to change the LEDs to blue.

Now for all those who did the LED changes on these buttons, I need help figuring out how to take and panel apart without breaking it!

Any help is appreciated!

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take a 1/8" drill bit to all those black dots (not the gray ones!!), looks like theres 8 of em. be careful and once those are free the green board will come out [thumb]
 
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ebay user hktaiyuen sells good ones in large quantities on the cheap

but they come from Hong Kong so shipping takes about 2 weeks
 
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They're not that hard actually... They're called PCLL-2 leds

-Keep track of which way the angled corner is facing. Use a small set of needle nose pliers and gently twist them off, unless you have a VERY fine tipped soldering iron. Work them back and forth until the 'legs' or contacts of the led break (but will stay soldered to the board).

-Use the soldering iron to push off the broken 'legs' left stuck on the contacts on the board.

-Once the contacts on the board are clean, I had to cut thin strips of tape to keep the leds from moving around. I drink a lot of coffee so I don't have steady hands.

-Then try to carefully solder the leds on. What I did was dab the soldering wire on the iron and then heat up the contacts so the solder could spread and stick. It won't look like a machine did it but it works fine.
 
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Okay thanks a lot!! Do you know if the controls for the lights switch and fogs also use the same type of LEDs?

Oznium is sold out and has a 5 week ([:(] !! ) backorder on the blue ones!! Any other good site to buy these?
 
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