to me the red looks orange dont like how the needles go with the white. I like the white the best if the needles werewhite to

 

Yes, I think the camera settings are making it look more orange then red in this case. Even with your eyes it does look more toward the orange side than pure red.

I think what I will do is order some blue and green LEDs and try them out in this test cluster and see how that looks. Since it seems folks are interested in the blue color, might as well see what it would look like!

Will take a week or so to get the parts, so look for a follow-up on this with the blue and green colors!

Xenawise

 

Wow the white looks amazing. Looks more elegant IMO. Reminds me of corvette gauges.

 

that looks awesome! i personally would love Pink gauges with White needles

 

All right, finished up the cluster conversion and here are some before and after pictures:

Factory Color Left Closeup:

Facory Color Right Closeup:

After Conversion Red Color:

After Conversion Red Color Actual Driving:

I have to admit it looks great and now all the dashboard and front window/lock switches are converted to Red color:

Red Color Headlight Switch (Modified with Acadia Headlight Switch so Fog light is activated by pressing the main rotary button and not the little side button under the brightness knob):

Red Color DIC Switches:

Red Trans Axle 4x4 Selection Switch:

Red Radio and HVAC Controls:

Red HVAC and Accessory Switches (Accessory Switches are from a fully loaded truck with Adjustable Pedals, Rear Parking Assist, Traction Control and Heated Windshield Washer Fluid which I changed out the LEDs to red ones):

Red Left Front Door Lock/Window/Mirror Switches (notice the Power Mirror Switch is lit up as well. This is not wired in by the factory but is included in the power mirror switch):

 

Red Right Front Door Lock/Window Switches:

Here are shots of BLUE and GREEN in the instrument cluster:

Blue LEDs in the left half of the cluster:

Green LEDs in the right half of cluster:

Cluster shot showing full cluster with both Blue and Green:

And some other things I am working on as well:

Red Cruise Control Steering Wheel Buttons (Notice the Heated Steering Wheel button as well as the Gear Up/Down buttons on the side... I also put in red LEDs so the Gear Up/Down buttons light up at night as well):

Red Radio Control Steering Wheel Buttons (I have not yet modified the Volume + / Volume - buttons so that they will light up at night as well. I am waiting on my order of PLCC2 Red SMD LEDs to come in):

Now something a little off topic for this thread but something I am also working on as well, Heads Up Display in my Sierra! Here are a few proof of concept shots for you to look over:

HUD Test Shot #1:

HUD Test Shot#2:

HUD Display Closeup of Page 1 info displayed:

HUD Display Closeup of Page 3 info displayed:

 

Closeup of HUD when you turn on the ignition:

So there you have it! Almost done with a full red interior back lighting project / mod and some insight into adding a Heads-Up Display to our NNBS GMT-900 trucks! I am sure there will be some questions about all this so please feel free to post up and let me know what you think of the conversion and any other questions you may have about it. Also, the camara shots of the colors are a little washed out and in reality the colors are much deeper than the camera shots indicate. So even though it seems the red color is more orange, when you see it with your eyes, it is red. The Blue and Green shots are the same. The blue and green are much deeper color than the pictures indicate. Look at the reflection of the colors on the cluster bezel. This is more the true color you see with your eyes. But then again, color is very subjective so the color I see will be different than the color you really see.

Xenawise

 

Awesome! Looks amazing. Great work man. Looking forward to seeing that HUD finished.

 

Looks great....how in the world are you coming up with this much time for this, lol?

 

Looks really great, good job...............

 

Man that looks awesome. I'm sure you got a lot of time invested into it.

 

Finished up with the steering wheel controls now. Notice the left hand side has the heated steering wheel button along with the Gear Up and Gear Down buttons. I wired these up to do the Volume Up and Down for the radio and wired up the Heated Steering Wheel button to function as the "Up Arrow" on the right side radio control to allow me to go to the next file on my USB drive. When I am driving with my wife I usually am holding her hand or something with my right hand making changing the radio difficult. I wanted to mimic more buttons as well since you only use the cruise buttons when you have cruise control on which is pretty rare for me. I need to work on allowing the cruise buttons to function as radio control buttons when they are not in use for the cruise control but I will figure it out. In any case, here are some pictures of the steering wheel control buttons replaced on the steering wheel with the red backlighting:

Right side with flash:

Right side with flash off so you can see the red backlighting and the Vol+ and Vol- buttons backlit as well:

Left side with flash:

Left side with flash off so you can see the red backlighting and the Gear+ and Gear- buttons backlit as well:

Shot of steering wheel and dash:

Left side of wheel:

Right side of wheel:

Now the only thing to convert up front is rear sliding window button. It is up in the overhead console and taking it apart revealed it much like the door lock/unlock buttons (which use a light bulb with a blue rubber filter) but with higher current contacts. I will have to cut the blue rubber and then place the cut red rubber from a Acadia door lock/unlock switch in its place so it will light up red as well and not affect the current handling capabilities of the factory switch. More on that when I get the Acadia switch and do the modification. I will take pictures of that as well. So until then, thanks for all the kind words in your comments!

Xenawise

 

Volume + / Volume

Finished up with the steering wheel controls now. Notice the left hand side has the heated steering wheel button along with the Gear Up and Gear Down buttons. I wired these up to do the Volume Up and Down for the radio and wired up the Heated Steering Wheel button to function as the "Up Arrow" on the right side radio control to allow me to go to the next file on my USB drive. When I am driving with my wife I usually am holding her hand or something with my right hand making changing the radio difficult. I wanted to mimic more buttons as well since you only use the cruise buttons when you have cruise control on which is pretty rare for me. I need to work on allowing the cruise buttons to function as radio control buttons when they are not in use for the cruise control but I will figure it out. In any case, here are some pictures of the steering wheel control buttons replaced on the steering wheel with the red backlighting: Right side with flash: View attachment 11233 Right side with flash off so you can see the red backlighting and the Vol+ and Vol- buttons backlit as well: View attachment 11234 Left side with flash: View attachment 11235 Left side with flash off so you can see the red backlighting and the Gear+ and Gear- buttons backlit as well: View attachment 11236 Shot of steering wheel and dash: View attachment 11237 Left side of wheel: View attachment 11238 Right side of wheel: View attachment 11239 Now the only thing to convert up front is rear sliding window button. It is up in the overhead console and taking it apart revealed it much like the door lock/unlock buttons (which use a light bulb with a blue rubber filter) but with higher current contacts. I will have to cut the blue rubber and then place the cut red rubber from a Acadia door lock/unlock switch in its place so it will light up red as well and not affect the current handling capabilities of the factory switch. More on that when I get the Acadia switch and do the modification. I will take pictures of that as well. So until then, thanks for all the kind words in your comments! Xenawise

What leds do you use for all the buttons ?

 

Looks awesome man!
Wish I was skilled in this, I'd go blue or white all around

 

That's some serious stuff! Everything looks amazing..I like the concept of the cruise buttons being a rAdio function when not in use too.

 

do you have the part number for the up down gear switch cluster?

 

Sure, the part number for the left side steering wheel control with the cruise control buttons, heated steering wheel button and the Gear Up/Gear Down side buttons is 25901034. It is from a 2008-2009 Hummer H2 and will fit into truck steering wheel with no modifications. However, the Gear Up / Gear Down and Heated Steering wheel buttons will not function without the proper harness and connections so it is not a swap and go operation.

 

would I be able to just wire the gear buttons to the gear buttons on the shifter? im thinking of getting a heated wheel too. is it a harness that can be added? Can the needles color be changed?

 

incredible mod, xenawise. Looks perfect. That will surely make your truck stand out. I just have one question.... why are you listening to paula abdul??? :?

 

Looks really good.....Wouldnt mind changing out lights on my radio to stock color ( since the light up red ) but I dont have that much patience to do that....

 

incredible mod, xenawise. Looks perfect. That will surely make your truck stand out. I just have one question.... why are you listening to paula abdul??? :?

at 4:13 in the morning

 

you beat me to the HUD ,ive got a 2010 vette and a 2011 camaro units[camaro wont work]what unit are you using ?acadia?,what switchs?,ive got the wiring plugs,i figured out how to fit them in the dash[modifie the left top defrost tube,,also on the lighting thing ive got a acadia nav in my nnbs trk,its red,i want green/factory,,are the red lights in radio just covers?,i just ordered 3.5mm nut drivers,,PM me if ness and we can swap phone numbers as i hate typing ,,great work

 

I would like to know where you got your leds from and are just any brand smd ok to fit or certain specific ones?? please let me know

 

I want to know where that HUD came from. I miss heads up the most from my old 97 Park Ave.

 

I like the project. It looks really good!! I am curious though, how did you get the 4x4 Trans axle Select Switch apart to turn those lights to red as well?

 

Man you must have some steady hands. I can't even fill a coffee mug up to the top because I end up with it all over myself! Never mind trying to solder those tiny little diodes.