Most of this should apply as long as they use surface mount LEDs. Match the type of LED and take note of polarity and you should should be good to go.

Appreciate it. My focus seems to be all over the price. Got some home projects to do, still have some more buttons and other car things to do, on top of just work and family balance. I need to finish up on the car soon.

Well then you wouldn't do anything because OEM is amber LEDs. The whole car is amber LEDs for the most part.

PLCC-2 will cover the instrument cluster

​@@CroVlado0510hello with 2 pins or 4;

@kwstas 2 wide pins. They cover almost the whole side off the LED. Type in PLCC-2, the 4 pin version is multi color and is PLCC-4

@@CroVlado0510 goofy ahh i ain even got a beamer no mo

@Con Martin, what are you even going on about? Who’s talking to you?

You can order them on Amazon or other shopping services

Turn the needles over and cut red diffusion sheets in the shape under the needle so it fits over the center hole where it attaches to the cluster. Slide it in there and put a tiny dab of hot glue in there to hold it in place. If you cut it tight enough it can use surface tension against the hole to keep it inside but it’s though to cut that small hole perfectly. Hope that makes sense.

I haven’t

It’s red in the end. Not sure what display you’re watching on but it’s color accuracy may be off.

Yes

The LEDs are marked with a cut corner. They may but I don’t know if they’ll be the same brightness. Considering they’re a couple dollars on aliexpress there’s no reason not to use what you take out.

Thanks for your reply, i figured that out afterall. I managed to replicate your work fallowing your steps. Thank you for my ‘’new’’ cluster.

@@enciumarian2112 that’s great! Hope you enjoy.

There is no particular link. Search on eBay or AliExpress and buy the LEDs you need for your project. If you need help identifying LEDs, a search engine will be your friend. Good luck with your project.

Thanks for your reply I will subscribe to you can you tell me the LDE You use on the M3

For the cluster you only need PLCC2 (also called 1210).

@@CroVlado0510 OK cool.. What about the window buttons and heat and air control and the headlight switch

@@kevinsmith4924 I’ve made videos on the hvac and windows, working on the headlight, it’s a bit more involved.

@@CroVlado0510 yea I knw i just need to know what all kind leds for all of them so I can order me some

@@kevinsmith4924 it all depends on if you you’re going for direct swaps or more of a custom. Again if you watch and listen to the videos I did explain all of this. If you’re going for direct swaps you’ll need 3mm, 5mm, 0805, 1206, and PLCC2

What are you looking to get done? This is just the first video posted. I’ll be putting up the hvac, and rest of the car soon enough, waiting on some LEDs to arrive from overseas

Led upgrades and painted needle

@@GEESKIII_ sorry lost traction on this. $100 for LEDs another $100 for needles, plus cost of LEDs if other than white and shipping here and back. Unfortunately not cheap but it takes a couple hours to do it all.

@@CroVlado0510 I want this done on my car it looks really cool I will contact you when I got the money to spend

Yeah

Wouldn’t be worth your money honestly. I value my time quite high and shipping back and forth would put the price way out of what it’s worth, in my opinion.

Even if I’ was happy to pay the costs & have everything done like you have on your own car light switches etc

Honestly I don’t think it would be worth the cost. Shipping from Germany to USA and all the way back would probably be expensive on top of cost to do this work. You can message me on discord if you want to talk about it CroVlado#8786

What’s up, man? How can I help ya?

I basically tried doing what you did I got the same results with the needles I practice on some three series Needles and they came out pretty decent then I use my cell phone background light and put the needle up against it and I saw the exact deep rich red that you saw and got the problem is I’m afraid to do the LEDs I want to do the whole conversion just like what you did that cluster reminds me of a newer cluster or let’s say out of an E 60 M5 I want The same look that you got and made what do I Gotta do to ship out my cluster to you lol i’ll pay for the whole thing and pay you whatever you’re asking

@@vincentsgro3348 I’m not sure how much this is worth it to you but I can do it. Message me on fb and we can talk about color and whatever else. facebook.com/vlado.mlakic

@@CroVlado0510 excellent thankyou

Lots of places. AliExpress, eBay, Amazon, LightHouseLEDs, etc.

@@CroVlado0510 can you throw me a link of the ones you used? Thanks!

I don’t have one. I just typed in what I was looking for in AliExpress and clicked the one with most sales and reviews. It’s all the same.

@@CroVlado0510 they are called SMD led right?

PLCC2 smd led

PLCC2

I don’t have insta, I have fb mostly for some car groups. I don’t stay active on social media.

@@CroVlado0510 just messaged u on Facebook

Dont push the needle all to the bottom. This is the most mistake people do. Its stuck then...