How to change dash LEDs on Golf MK4
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- This is step by step instructions on how to change your dash leds in your golf mk4, enjoy and i hope you find it usefull
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Can't believe you'd change that! The blue looks a million times better!
When I was younger one of the biggest reasons I wanted an MK4 was the blue display lol
@@robertwhisenhunt8740 after a certain time you get tired looking at it. I have my golf for 9 years now and last year I changed the color because I wanted something different after all that time
Agree!! Only an idiot would do that. The time, this blue thing came, was something. I remember new Pioneer home stereosystems with blue display. I was ready to kill to get one. I had Pioneer KEH-5800 car stereo. It was a freakin cool thing to have.
In my opinion blue better.
I wonder what red looks like though 🤔
@@hyvaapaivaa1788 i want to do red cause im doing black and for my gti… not to sure yet tho
Argggh the best thing about these VWs in the blue and red... madness!
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I love blue original color
This the reason why i like blue
Idem
mee to,i grow with that colour
Ha ha ha, it looks terrible lol
Me too, but the white color gives more modern style
Very informative video. Don't be bothered by the people saying the white colour is ugly. If you like it, it doesn't matter. I personally just wanted to put new lights since my old ones dont work. Thanks
I can see all these people whining about a changed color scheme and wonder. Why are you bashing at him for such thing? It's just a matter of preference. The tutorial itself is great. both, clear and detailed. And you can change to stronger LEDs of ANY color. it's not like it won't work of you keep the previous color scheme but with stronger LEDs...
+Lukas Dainys thank you, i tried to explain that many times, but i gave up, you can use this toturial if you want to schange color or replace original burned ones, to know how to repair
DIY Garage Projects and reviews dont worry some of us appreciate it for what it is
+khyle goodness thank you
But he choose the wrong LED size, he also didn't checked for the resistors (because different forward voltage of the Blue and white LED's), also the Soldering itself isn't as good as it should be.
Most of the pals are unthankful anyway. It is a great tutorial video. I learn a lot myself from it
its better blue & red !!!!
I prefer the original blue led (maybe more powerful blue led) but not white... but! it helped a lot to me to open the dash if i need to make some further mods on it. Thanks!
All that work and it looked better with the blue :P
I have one and I prefer the blue OEM lights... but thanks for this tutorial it will be saved on favorites I might change it for stronger blue LEDs ...
Why change it? It looks so good. Especially with bora vents 👍🏻
This is a good view if you wished to do something like this
I personally like the look of my mk4 as original
Sorry but one of the greatest features of the car is the original cluster lighting. Looks like it took a lot of work to ruin it.
When i drove on of these (from a friend), i couldn't watch the deep Blue color for a long time, my eyes refocused every time i looked on the speedo. Thats why i would solder the cluster to white. But i would use the right size and new LED's.
+Jens Harbers i reccomend doing that, this was a silly project showing how its done
@@jensharbers6702 So you don't know if you can look at white color? But you think blue is bad?
White includes blue, so hmm...
Let face it , the oem color blue, is a shit, is not deep blue is whited blue washed and looks like cheap indian car.
@@MrFluorescentify no....
I agree the bule looks better, and I'm assuming the new LEDs are full brightness all the time (no dimming). Awesome how-to for sure if I ever have to take the cluster out, but I'm not cool enough for sunglasses at night.
+Rob Hubbard you can still dimm the lights, and these arenot the correct leds so they are a little brighter
i never do that i love the way lt is
looks like u had one thats why u asking me that
I love the original blue. It’s one of those unique thinks about the mk4 that makes it so dope.
Thank you for this tutorial I needed to replace the clear lens just needed to see how it comes apart, appreciate it!
Your welcome, this is what this video is for helping people, some think that you must put this ugly white color, you dont, but it can help you replace blue ones or replace the lens like you did.
I've got 569,000 km on my cluster and never had a problem with the blue LEDs (knock on wood). Nice music!
What car ,569000 is so high,reliable car name?didnt u change speedometer or atleast its led ,still all leds work perfect??engine perfect??
@@AC-kh9jz 1.9TDI all the way bro
BLUE IS STILL BETTER
+The Kowbow sure thing buddy
Yeh i thought it was being changed too blue 😪😂
Thanks for showing me it's too much trouble lol
I love the original color and i woudn't have all that work just because of that... BUT this video was really useful to me as i need to change my broken warning buzzer, sometimes i leave my lights on, and i get a empty battery.
So Thanks !!!
This is probably a bit late but you will probably find it's the drivers door switch not the dash buzzer
Why ! it's unique when it's blue and red!
+Diesel Miro do you know what unique means? You do know that every mk4 has blue leds?
DIY Garage Projects and reviews dude --" I meant it's unique for VW only
well its video how to change LED lights :) Not WHY u should change ur LED lights :D
mrogy you are right sir
"more better" that is redundant.
Great job, so much detail doing the video, I will use it to clean my cluster screen, it's too dusty right were the clock and CT adjusters are.
i like your video and the time u ve made it, thkx a lot (y)
Great Vid! ,Genius!
Is their a LED that is more deep blue?
The Mk4 platform inside and out seems to of been ahead of its time. MK4 are wonderful cars.
Nice vid! I just picked up some B5 passat clusters from the junkyard. I am going to do the b5 passat to MK4 cluster upgrade and while I am at it, wanted to do something with the LEDS maybe. Either way, now I have a vid step by step of a cluster disassembly haha.
+Justin Konsdorf awesome
Appreciate it that’s the great idea of the electro lights ... thank you very much
Thanks bro, helped me A LOT! Nice video.
Did you know: if you live in a country with internet access you can have LED's shipped to your door for pennies. No need to desolder them from an existing product.
The more you know.
The less you enjoy
Good work &thank you for the idea it’s help👍🏻
Blue is better
i understand him. in the night that blue make my eyes tired. so with white is more relaxing. but i like cold white. he use somehting diferent
@@Rosuvlad12 bro you can put the brightness down dingus
before it look's so much better. But it's a good video
+Jannis Firk thank you
Great video! But.. I would go with Blue & Red just brighter LED's :)
Anyway looks awesome!
I think blue light looks much better than the new one. But I do appreciate you for making this video and showing us how this is done!
I thought first it would be a nice thing to do to my VW and then I saw the video. Insane, so much work
you can get it done for like 50€
wow its so complicated, I thought it'd be 5 minutes process like plug and play light bulbs :D nice work and I dig the white color!
gotta try this! Thanks!
I much prefer the blue. But too each their own. Cool video.
For some reason I like the red lighting in my 1.9 TDI seat Alhambra.
i wish i had blue and red in my Modeo. Do not like White. i had a bora before Modeo and i absolutely loved the blue and red dash board!
Other than that great video!
IRTEHLEETOKNPBB yes its awesome, i have bora now and i like the blue LEDs.
I have Bora an i love the blue board
Nice job, and a lot of electronic work done to achieve this, but for me personally, I prefer the blue background with red needles on my Mk4 dashboard to bog standard looking white background lighting. But that’s just my opinion.
A really nice comment for a change, thank you...
At the time this video was filmed, your odometer reading was 240K. I'm interested in understanding what major maintenance has been done to the vehicle to sustain its reliability. Would you mind making a video about this topic or replying to this comment with that information? I see in a couple of your videos that you performed a lot of cosmetic maintenance that does not necessarily fall into the category of sustained reliability, but is still nice to have, and was performed with a high degree of care and attention to detail which I also appreciate. I'm the original owner and only driver of a 2004 VW GTI VR6. The car has 151K miles currently and my intent is to keep it running reliably for 300K miles. This of course requires a lot of maintenance. I'm prioritizing everything under the hood and undercarriage first, for reliability purposes. Cosmetics will be second in a couple years.
His mileage is in kilometers, and 150k miles is just around 240k kilometers, so I don't know if he can help you with that 😅
I got a 03 GTI 1.8t, with 250k
@@robertwhisenhunt8740 My 01 GTI VR6 has 184K
SO much work for something that is perfect from the beginning..
And if you dimm the lights, what do you think happens to the rest of the leds that are not replaced?
+flattabang i know what happens since i replaced them, if the blue leds are perfect for you then then you can use this video as a tutorial on how to change leds whend they stop working
Hi, thanks for the video, great to see how the unit is put together.
My instrument cluster has just started to play up, the middle screen (trip, gear position etc) has gone blank, but is back lit constantly, the ‘apply brake’ light is constantly lit, and when the headlights are on the cluster lights up full but can’t be dimmed.
Maybe it’s an easy fix, have you any ideas?
Thanks
Paul
Very interesting and usefull, like instrument panell removing and other things but the white light reminds me of old cars, plus is to strong and not so cool like the blue one
Great tutorial! Very didactic even prefering the original colour scheme!
Thank you, and thanks for a positive comment even if you dont like the color, this ones get rare this days.
DIY Garage Projects and reviews Thank you for your time, its a viable tutorial on how to dismantle the clocks in the event of blown bulb or whatever!
If you get airbag or any other fault on the dash, you can easily clear it with this OBD device i reviewed a few days ago, check it out!
hello will you a similar job to my speedometer on a skoda octavia mk 2 ? i can send the speedometer to you .
Omg! Nice work
thank you to show us this but i still prefer the old but we can customise thank youuuuu
Thank you for watching
3:11 like the music, and helpful vid too:).
thanks for this. love the music
+mujjuman no problem :)
DIY Garage Projects and reviews song? Please
Why would you want to change the awesome gauge colors of the MKIV? I have a 16' R and still miss the purple and red gauges, it was so original. I wish they'd bring them back.
+fred420 i like white, with thosechrome rings its even beter
+fred420 i like white, with thosechrome rings its even beter
+DIY Garage Projects and reviews yes , chrome and white is awesome , i tried it but i put back the blue and red lights . i prefer it stock , i have a mk4 1.9tdi (131hp) pacific 2004.
Much better the original but the video was good
but it's white, the original color is so much nicer, and more than bright enough. that will hurt your eyes at night
+bunkerbuster its all about the taste, we like it white and bright, it is still dimmable, we just wanted to show the process of changing them, you dont have to change the color, now you know how to change faulty ones
+bunkerbuster its all about the taste, we like it white and bright, it is still dimmable, we just wanted to show the process of changing them, you dont have to change the color, now you know how to change faulty ones
yea i done it on a a3 before. fair play. my misses loves the blue lights on her golf
+ben free wouldnt she like pink better :D just kidding, thanks for watching :)
Great results! :D
Thanks for the great video. VW decides to make some repairs unnecessarily complicated. If you are doing this because of a faulty LED (and not to change colors) and you live near any salvage yards you can grab a used instrument cluster for 30 - 80 bucks usually. Just an idea if someone is intimidated by soldering.
+Brent Smith you can get one for around 40-50$ here but you cant get the car running with it without programing or something i think
+Brent Smith you can get one for around 40-50$ here but you cant get the car running with it without programing or something i think
I don't know about every particular VW, but I swapped the cluster from my 01 Jetta with a 02 Jetta cluster and it was essentially plug-n-play. YMMV.
+Brent Smith im not shure either, someone told me that its not plug and play anymore
Some are plug and play and some aren’t. Early years of the mark 4 era came WITHOUT a immobilizer. I have two mark 4 now and both have a immobilizer. My previous mk4 didn’t. You would have to check PR codes of the vehicle to see if you do or don’t.
Putting this on my, "Yeah, No." List. Killer job, though! Better you than me.
Good video. I put some chrome bezels on the dials..really smartens the cluster up.
Does the dimmer work with those leds?
Better blue plasma, with 10€ you buy 100 of them, i changed in a passat and bmw and the result is awesome.
Combined red(audi) with blue plasma, the result is like a luxury car.
You don’t force the clips up with a flat head , there’s a tiny tab you push down slightly and it releases without force.
white light is very high, I can see the the errors icons in board
but this is good idea , good job
Love the work and the effort but the original still isn't bad.
good job man, gonna do it ;)
Great video. If I tried it, I guarantee the lcd numerical display would never display correctly, tried it with a watch once. Useless afterwards. Would've been nice to see the dash display brightness dimmed to see how much they could be dimmed tho.
I like blue its my favorite color nice varm and calm driving specially on evenings
Just have in mind that the lights inside the dash must not be very bright because at long night driving they hurt the eyes and its VERY uncomfortable.. Except if there is a dimmer to adjust as you want.
+joe eoj there is a stock dimmer that still works fine, thanks for watching
Cool, nice work mate.
+joe eoj thank you
You have to change the resistance and it wont be that bright. When you do that it will be just fine.
Blue and Red is so much better !!!!!!
Eye Doctors report that little extra brightness in white lights helps prevent pupils from fully dilating, helping your eyes adjust better to those hideous LED headlights that blind everybody. Also love the fact I can read my dash during the daylight. Great job on the video so where do you get the work light for savaging white leds?
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thankyou put How to replace bulbs in dashboard Toyota Corolla 2006
Sorry, I dont own a Toyota corolla to make this
great video
+Tiseanu Gabriel thank you
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Very good!
Great set of skills Thats takes alottt out of you. Did you have to reprogram the car when you put it back in?
+Chris George thanks, no reprograming needed, just dont try to start your car without a dash
It's a cluster not a dash
Nice!!! But We prefer Blue Ori one -:)
Is it just me or does it look better how it was before. HAHAHA
Yep, looked better before, stay with OEM blue and red, this guy has saved me time and money
Ten niebieski oryginalny kolor jest unikatowy. Nie zmieniał bym tego. No ale o gustach się nie dyskutuje. Profanacja zegarów.
Nice work. It looks amazing. Do you know the size of led I want to order to make it look like this.
He used SMD 5050 for his project, but if you want to use original size for this dash i think that is SMD 3528. Also be careful to buy right led with right white color temperature. For me "Cool White" look much better for dash.
White color temperatures:
www.sdllighting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cool-white-and-warm-white-led.jpg
The blue and red is as pretty a dash as you'll ever see. So who would want to change it? The music says it all.
Yup, i think the same too, he should just keep it that way, personally i like red more
Thank you for the great video bro, i can use this to fix my broken blue led's
+Vda Vda you are welcome
Very good
Neither of my plastic rods work and the LEDs do seem quite dim, I've just bought the car recently so if I'm going to attempt one I might aswell attempt both
Would this not be an issue with the button behind the rods though?
La medida original del led es un Smd 3528, te quedo muy bien
You genius !
I think the white light is better. But that it is too bright. It makes the numbers less visible and it looks like it's making it blurry. Nevertheless, your skill and hard work is appreciated. I thought it was much harder to do. Soldering can be tricky, but with a clean tip you can do a lot.
That was a lot of effort to make something look worse than it did before you started. But hey to each his own.
+caliarmyguy it looks worse to you, and its alot of work for your lazy ass
worse or not. The new LEDs are just way to bright for driving at night.
+irmenkop85 no they are not, and you can still dimm them
wen you dimm them to be ok...other led on the buttons will have very little intensity
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Good stuff, looking forward on doing the same thing on my b6 Passat.
Hey guys, and thanks for the video, i have i big problem i hope you can help me out with. i followed, your steps, but the revs dosent work any more, do you have any suggestions ?
Only 1 wire cotrols the tacho, check the connection diagram, and check the connections on the back, reseat every connector make sure that you plugged them all the way
The Blue is cool!
Nothing beats the blue
Do the needles centre themselves once plugged in?
Diy Garage Projects and reviews. I noticed that when you turned your ignition to on your check engine light didnt illuminate. My vw golf gti mk4 does the exact same thing. Can you explain to me why it doesnt illuminate on start up? The info would be a great help
nice guide.
+andrew wright thank you
1.1 million views...helped alot out mate.
One year later, and you are here, thank you
Where you able to dim the lights after?
Much much much better blue and red!!!
White ❤ good job 👍
It seems that all of those comments are more likely from people that uses the car for short trips on daylight or even shorter at night. I drive a T4 Transporter with the same dash like 1200km in day an night and I can tell you that it is after a while of driving in the night, it will disturb you! Those blue colors will become annoying after 4-5 hours of driving in the night without lightning on the highway. Your eyes will also see blue on the highway and the darkness. Because of that and for my safety, I dim those lights and it is less disturbing!
After that, I saw some video's from Volkswagen some time ago, they have them own testing facility where they test the lightning on the dash and also the instrument cluster! After some research of VW, they said that white and red are the colors that are least disturbing and more clearer to read. So why are those people commenting here screaming about originality!? Yes they are original and beautiful, but even that is no reason to scream here. And ather that all, why do you think that VW has changed them to white/red?
The owner of this vid didn't upload it so you MUST change it!? He is like you and me free of modifying his car and he's doing good here! I came here to check how the cluster is been removed, changing the leds of it and putting it back on it's place!? It's a freakin' good helpful vid!
Thank you! Best comment here!
Now it looks like a old Opel frome back in the day 👍
Nice video. Fairly descriptive. I'm personally a fan of the colors of my Gauges, but to each his own. I would like to ask about the music though. It was nice. Could you share where you obtained it from?
+Trinidad Morales thanks, music was from free youtube library
+Trinidad Morales thanks, music was from free youtube library
what voltage does the LEDs have can you make em darker
what type you should get