Thread: Dash globes

Originally Posted by laney;[URL="tel:3213045"

3213045[/URL]]Hi all just hoping someone can tell me what type of globe is in the instrument cluster on the dash are they T5 or some weird Land rover thing.
Thanks Phil

Have to double check but I think they are T4. Just put some in mine. The incandescent ones have a bluish condom on them. I put LED in mine but I could only get blue at the time and they don’t look right.

Originally Posted by Tins;[URL="tel:3213051"

3213051[/URL]]Have to double check but I think they are T4. Just put some in mine. The incandescent ones have a bluish condom on them. I put LED in mine but I could only get blue at the time and they don’t look right.

T 4.2 is what I got I think. Jaycar had them. Or these

Yay, and Nay!

Depends which globes you want tho!
There are 5 globes in total.

(looking at the rear of the cluster)
Top middle T4.8 : can't recall what this one does .. some kind of warning light up there

Lower left T4.8 is the LCD readout.

Three larger main globes does the gauge lighting. These are just std T5 wedge globes.

(my opinion)
LEDs do a much better job of lighting the gauges, around town. Deep dark roads tho, I reckon a bit too bright tho. I have a couple of variable dimmer switches(which I still need to fit one) to allow dimming on those deep dark roads.

LCD display, LED way too bright.

The T4.2s are used in the HVAC panel .. combo of both T4.8s and T4.2s in there.

Originally Posted by AK83

Yay, and Nay!

Depends which globes you want tho!
There are 5 globes in total.

(looking at the rear of the cluster)
Top middle T4.8 : can't recall what this one does .. some kind of warning light up there

Lower left T4.8 is the LCD readout.

Three larger main globes does the gauge lighting. These are just std T5 wedge globes.

(my opinion)
LEDs do a much better job of lighting the gauges, around town. Deep dark roads tho, I reckon a bit too bright tho. I have a couple of variable dimmer switches(which I still need to fit one) to allow dimming on those deep dark roads.

LCD display, LED way too bright.

The T4.2s are used in the HVAC panel .. combo of both T4.8s and T4.2s in there.

Correct of course. I looked at the one I had left over from the assortment. The top middle I think is high beam. I have no trouble with the led brightness of the ones in the main cluster, but the blue is too "modern" and is unsuited to the car aesthetic. I couldn't get green at the time. I didn't change the LCD odo display, but I could see that you would be right about that.
It's the lights behind the switches next. Change the engine mounts, CV boots and it's off for the RWC.

Originally Posted by Tins

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It's the lights behind the switches next. Change the engine mounts, CV boots and it's off for the RWC.

which switches?
I guess console ones?
Pod switches lights can't be changed(easily), as the LEDs are hard wired in, so you need to 'hack' them.

I recently changed the T3s in the D1s pod switches to LEDs ... WOW! massive visual difference over the incandescents

Originally Posted by AK83

which switches?
I guess console ones?
Pod switches lights can't be changed(easily), as the LEDs are hard wired in, so you need to 'hack' them.

I recently changed the T3s in the D1s pod switches to LEDs ... WOW! massive visual difference over the incandescents

Around the HVAC. And others such as the door lock switch. Gotta admit, I don't even know if they have them as they have never been illuminated in the time I've owned the car.

Originally Posted by Tins

Around the HVAC. And others such as the door lock switch. Gotta admit, I don't even know if they have them as they have never been illuminated in the time I've owned the car.

100% the feed to them, not the globes.
I don't have any spare switches around the HVAC panel, but I have the lock switch, and it is LED.

I'd say most likely to be a connection problem up at the main connector(C0759) up behind the instrument pod, the connector with all the red/brown and red/orange wires, on the left hand side.(I think the header on the right hand side is an earth header)
The RHS connector a header, but it's 'connectable' hence it's a header, so its still considered as C0759(connector) in RAVE. All the wires come from one side of the connection, and is plugged into a blank "thing".
That "thing" is a busbar, which connects all relevant rails to each other.

This is what I meant about not fitting the aesthetic.
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