Brighter dash lights!

[76911S]

Are you guys familiar with these led replacement bulbs for Porsche gauges.
They work VERY well!

http://www.my914-6.com/LED/

[Paul Schooley]

That is definately cool. Might ponder that one for my 911 seein how it's in it's crib for the winter.

[JackOlsen]

I've heard just the opposite about the substitute LED's -- that it's good, but not great. You end up with bright circles of light, but the LED's don't diffuse enough.

North Hollywood Speedo supposedly does a really good upgrade, but it's spendy.

[pwd72s]

When night driving, I actually turn the brightness of my factory gauges down. I've learned where "okay" is with all the needles, so don't really need to read the numbers. I favor seeing what's in the H-1's over being distracted by gauge glare. Possibly because I wear glasses? Like to avoid all the refraction I can?

[swbsam]

I had the LED treatment done on my 87 by No. Ho. speedo, and it is a big improvment over the original lights butt... I was told that the dimmer would still work, well it doesn't, and at first I thought it might be a problem but after driving the car for awhile now I find that I never used the dimmer anyway and besides being brighter the lighting is so much more even now, it did cost some bucks but I do like being able to see what's going on at a glance and not having to stare at the gauges, when I was down at No.Ho.speedo they also told me they could do green and orange and I think blue, and I'm thinking of having my extra set of 67gauges done in green because the original lighting in those gauges is really dark.

[RandyWebb]

"Possibly because I wear glasses? Like to avoid all the refraction I can?"

- No, it is because you are a genius. I do exactly the same thing (and also have H1's). When I lived in Wyoming, I turned the dash lights all the way off.

This helps you concentrate on the road itself (and what might be in it) -- it works only if the traffic is rare (pwd lives in or near a small Oregon town, which has low traffic). In the medium size city I live in, I keep the ldash ights on medium and turn them down as far as they go when in the countryside.