Also note the modified speedo cluster or painted needle.

I have a mod write up on VWvortex and vintagewatercooleds.com with a
how to-fluresent orange needle paint job. This was done with the
scirocco cluster, but it should be the same for vanagon's once they
are appart:
http://www.vintagewatercooleds.com/tech/Techtips/ATStechnotes/clusterlights/clusterlights.htm

Enjoy,
Tony

On 12/8/11, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Very trivial mod to the digital clock. I bet most of you how have switched
> to led bulbs in cluster have found that the light output, or rather it is
> the beam pattern, of the LED in the clock does not illuminate as well as you
> think it should be. Blog post links to a more involved hack (in German), I
> tried the simpler hack of a reflector
>
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/vanagon-digital-clock-led-light-improvement/
>
>
> Also in post is a pic that shows, actually exaggerates, the beam pattern on
> the gauge faces when LEDs are used. Camera setting makes it look worse than
> it really is, and the reflectors I put in the bulb housing also contributes,
> but it does show how the bulb housing is suited for incandescents, not so
> good for LEDs.
>
> alistair
>
>
> PS I'm tiring of the cold glow from super white LEDs, I'm going to make up
> some other colour bulbs.

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