LED Install 97 Mountaineer

[bartgillam]

Here is a video of my latest LED install in my 97 mountaineer. The gauge cluster does not look that great because of the green overlay Ford installs in it to make the stock lights green. If i could find a solid white one that did not include lights in it already i would purchase some. Other then that looks great to me. This setup probably has 15 plus feet of LED strips. Under the dash is one 6-8 foot section of RGB lights. The gauge cluster has about 2 feet or so of the same RGB lights but on a different controller. The climate control has about a foot or 2 of 5050 white LED's. The backseat dome light has about 2-4 feet in it i can't remember how many strips i installed so not exact on that one. The dome light up front has about a foot of 5050 whites in it also. I did not show the front doors which both have LED's in the bottom left in that stock light (not sure what that light is called i guess the ground light idk..you get what im talking about) because the left side is temporarily broken due to me installing all new doors speakers and i dropped the door panel when i took it off and i ripped a solder joint apart so i have to reinstall but i have about a foot total in both of those.

 

[DjDom]

Looks good.

For your instrument cluster though, you should take it apart and remove the green film Ford puts on. I think there's a guide on here on how to do it.

 

[bartgillam]

I used the search and couldnt come up with anything other then taking a blade and scraping the back with it until the green is off...i would do that if i was 100% sure the post i read was accurate it was just one post though i didnt see this guide you were referring to..it would be nice for it to not be green so all the colors showed properly

 

[96EXXLTinCO]

I realize this is an old subject, but there is an easier and safer way to remove the green paint, I did an LED conversion on my 01 eclipse spyder GT. This had orange paint on the back of the cluster film that I wet sanded off by hand with sand paper, which would make the cluster numbers and marking white. I changed out the stock white bulbs for blue LED's and they are a good looking blue. There was a good thread on how to do it on club3G, the eclipse forum. If anyone is interested, let me know and I can link that how to here. I will be doing this same thing in my 96 explorer soon. I have already changed out all other interior lights to blue LED with the exception of the map lights. I also added blue LED strips under the dash which I think looks just amazing.