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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 05:24 PM
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You could check these out: http://www.oznium.com/led-dome


They come with a whole bunch of different connecters:

I *believe* one of those are ours... anyone concur?
There are some connectors for the rear and middle dome lights but the front lights have a funny style screw in bulb i think.
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 05:27 PM
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They are direct replacements, I just don't know which bulb style is up in the map/dome/cargo lights. The connectors just plug into the LED square, "bulb" goes directly into normal spot, and you replace the plastic cover.

check out the "more photos" and it shows they are direct replacements
Ahh I gotcha. Thanks! As soon as I get done swapping everything I will hopefully have pics up. When I first got my bulbs I was pissed off because they sent me red ones for my gauges but I checked my order and I didn't change my color to blue Maybe someone else will learn from my mistake when ordering.
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 05:35 PM
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Thanks Texas_Ace, I haven't taken my dome light apart in awhile so I wasn't sure. Wonder how hard it would be to get these to fit up there....




o just fyi, this is a place to get OEM style switches too (http://www.oznium.com/gsw-45) I'm going to order some over winter break.
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Atomic
Thanks Texas_Ace, I haven't taken my dome light apart in awhile so I wasn't sure. Wonder how hard it would be to get these to fit up there....




o just fyi, this is a place to get OEM style switches too (http://www.oznium.com/gsw-45) I'm going to order some over winter break.
No problem, i can't seem to find the link right now but i got some offical Toyota switches for my truck for about $6. There is some site that just sells switchs or something. Search google, that is how i found it.
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 05:44 PM
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Thanks! /OT

Back on topic (my fault)
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Atomic
You could check these out: http://www.oznium.com/led-dome


They come with a whole bunch of different connecters:

I *believe* one of those are ours... anyone concur?
I'm about to order 2 of the larger flexible dome lights for the center & trunk light! For my map lights I've got some super-white LED replacements from autolumination, but they aren't that bright. I wonder if that dome light from oznium will fit, I'll have to measure...
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Old Dec 11, 2007 | 08:54 PM
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Awesome, post up some pictures when you're done!
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Old Dec 12, 2007 | 06:17 PM
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here are some pics of my LED conversion. i just went green again since i like green, but now it's REALLY green and not that yellow/green that came stock. i still have to get the A/C, ECT, Rear Window, and rear defrost changed over with the nano bulbs. my clock doesn't work and you might notice the rear defrost isn't lit in the pics, burned out bulb and i dont feel like replacing in the winter.

just a note, the gauge cluster turned out fine but i'm going to try some other bulbs as suggested earlier for the heat controls and probably for the inclinometer (since you can't hardly see the altimeter) because of hot spots and lack of disspersion in other spots (corners of heat controls and "P" and "L" on the shift control. and the blue in the one shot of the passenger side power outlet is just the cell phone charger that's plugged in there, i think i'll have to fix that as well

on to the pics!

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Old Dec 12, 2007 | 07:38 PM
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nice that green looks way better then stock,
i was just gonna take the easy way out and leave the factory green stock and just get green LEDs for everywhere else
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Old Dec 12, 2007 | 08:50 PM
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Are your needles actually that green? In my blue cluster they are so hard to see at night. It looks great by the way!
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Old Dec 12, 2007 | 09:47 PM
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Man that looks wicked.
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Old Dec 13, 2007 | 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Atomic
Are your needles actually that green? In my blue cluster they are so hard to see at night. It looks great by the way!
everything is more of a "true" green now. looking at the pics the needles do look just as green as everything else, but now that it's day out and i'm not using the lights i can't remember if they are green. i'll check tonight, but i think they still have a bit of the orange color to them, but not much. i saw a post by some one that painted their needles to make them stand out more, but i don't think it's a big deal, maybe down the road sometime i'll decide to do that but not now.

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Old Jan 1, 2008 | 08:45 AM
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'99+ uses a different bulb setup for the gauge lights. it's a #24 bulb. somewhere in between a #194 and a #74. i'm not sure what else changed
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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 11:54 PM
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Nice guys, the only thing that bothers me about the LED conversion is the hot spots... They aren't bad in the gauge cluster, but on the climate control they seem to stand out.
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Old Jan 6, 2008 | 11:53 AM
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I had hot spots in my climate control w/ the normal #74 LEDs, but once I switched them to the 3- LED bulbs they were gone.

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Old Jan 6, 2008 | 02:15 PM
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^Which 3 LED ones did you use?
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Old Jan 6, 2008 | 03:59 PM
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Glad I found this thread. I agree, the stock lighting is horribly low even with the dimmer cranked.

The green or blue look awesome!
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Old Jan 7, 2008 | 10:46 AM
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i have red leds on order and they should be here today!!! yay!! how do i post pics here on the forum? for when im done...
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Old Jan 7, 2008 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by GOH10 Runner
^Which 3 LED ones did you use?
Go to this link:

http://autolumination.com/74.htm

They are the first bulbs listed on the page.
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Old Jan 11, 2008 | 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Rock Slide
I replaced both map lights and front and rear dome lights as well with white LEDs. Much better IMO.

Got all 4 from autolumination.com
I'd like to know which LEDs you got also. Thanks in advance!

-- Andrey
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