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The items that i used and you will need inless you have suitable items to match..


1.Go to radio shack and buy three 5mm (Your color bulb)3.7volts Part number for my blue was 276-0316(Can also get these from superbrightleds.com but they gave me to much info per light that i didn't understand what it meant....

2.Grease/Wax/Adhesive Remover

3.A small pcs of fine grit sand paper(1000 sounds good)

4.Phillps screwdriver

5.And some type of tacky glue(Headliner glue)

6.Three,NeoWedge series LED Lamp/4mm LED in NEO4 lamp
12 Volt DC - 100 degree beam pattern(Bought from Superbrightleds.com(1.29 each)

7.(This is optional and not a must)...3 small 12v pop in leds with plastic houseing(Can be found at many autoparts store).


First) you start off by opening upper bin and grasping the front and pulling it towards you(To the rear of car)..This will unsnap and free the upper bin...Set it up on dash.


Second) Remove the lower plastic that surrounds your lower bin and is just above your cup holders(By pulling towards you.(To rear of car)

Thrid) Remove 2 phillips head screws holding the radio bezel and HAVC bezel on and remove.


Fourth) There are 4 phillips screws holding in the radio/lower bin....Remove these 4 screws and pull out enough to unplug radio(The radio and the lower bin will come out as one part since there both screwed to the same metal brackets)

Fifth) There are 4 phillips screws holding the HAVC in, Remove them 4 screws


Sixth) Now push your HAVC Inward(Towards front of car) and at same time you will have to tilt it to get it out....But whlie doing this there are 2 cables connnected to this unit and are held on with clips....Just get a small flat head screw driver and pop the left one off to allow you to get it out a bit more,Also unplug the to plugs on the rear.(There different so don't worry about mixing them up).Once the left cable is unclipped and the 2 plugs are unpluged, Work it out towards you so you can flip it over to unclip the other cable(On right side)..And remove unit.You should have this..


Seventh) Turn all knobs to the right just to help remember where to install them and remove them by pull them off.Once the knobs are off get a ravor knife or something suitable and pry up the black face of HAVC(It's only stuck there with tacky glue....Once you have gotten that off you should have this...

Eight) Now get your grease was adhesive remover and spread it around on the backside of the face of HAVC,Let it soak into the glue for a min or so and you can just rub it off into little rubber balls intill it's all off.....

Nine) Now you can sand the back side....It will start off being a deep white...Then as you remove that layer it will turn like a glue/Orange looking color then it will turn clear...(NOTE!!!! Take your time this is not a race and you don't want to sand to deep....Also on the temp side(Where it goes from blue to red)..Sand lightly on the blue and almost none on the red cause regardless you can't see through it anyhow, It's red..... I used 1000 grit sand paper and ran the sandpaper under water,Worked good for me...

Ten) Once your done with the sanding flip the HAVC over and remove the screw holding the black speed control onto the backside(There is also a clip you will see holding this)Unclip and remove...RED DOT IS SCREW NEEDED TO BE REMOVED..


Eleven) Now remove the three screws holding down the circuit board.YELLOW DOTS.


Twelve) Now pop off the circuit board(Note it will be a little tough cause the buttons that you push from the front for AC/Rear defog/freash Air are popped onto switches that are soldered to the circuit board,Once Board is off replace the three bulbs that are on the circuit board (The neowedge base ones you bought from superbrightleds.com..The one on the left and right will be blue and longer then the one in the middle..The one in the middle will be gray and will be short like the one's you bought.....The ones on left and right you will be replaced with the shorter ones you bought(They will still work)....Looks like a philips head and thats what you will use to remove and install them..Also these are positive and negative,If they don't work just remove and turn them around...Look at pic


Thirteen) Now look at circuit board you will see 3 led's that are soldered to the board....These will need to be unsoldered removed and new ones put there....NOTE!!!!!....The height of the bulbs must stay the same because they got in lil tubes built on back of the buttons that they glow through.Also there is a positive side and negative side...On the new led the long leg is the poss side.....And when i removed the the stock bulb i marked all three bulbs with a marker and when i got it out i hooked it to 2 double a batterys and found out which was the poss side as to how it was installed on board,And it was the leg furthest away from the switches mounted on the circuit board....Once there installed on board just reach under the bottom and snip the left over that is protruding out the other side.(After it's been soldered).....LEDS IN PIC BELOW THAT NEED REMOVED...



Fourteen) Once you have the above steps done,Reassemble opposite of disassemble and if you not happy with the lighting(Which i seen some small flaws in the light not quiet getting spread even which i am sure some would be happy with)...I added a few 12v led bulbs that i got from local auto store and put them in the area's i felt was weak on lighting.I then tapped into the switched power and the ground coming into the rear of the HAVC....See pic below....Once this is all done and testing it by setting unit in car pluging unit in and turning park lights on and key in on position you can now spary the back side of the pcs you sanded and then attach it back to the front..Also try to keep the spary glue off were you sanded.....



When done you should have this or your color like this.....

nice job dude... good write up!