The green comes from the gauge face not the bulbs. The bulbs shine their white
light then go through green tinted numbers to get to your eye. So the "back
lighting" will be what ever color film the new gauges have on them.
Jay W
Jon wrote:
> On the subject of gauges, I've been thinking of replacing mine with
> white-face ones, but I'm thinking that the green backlighting won't go well
> with white. I drove a 2000 Neon the other day (not bad, for a car... at
> least it's Mopar!) and it's got white gauges with orange backlighting.
> That's sweet! The numbers just jump out at you, making a quick glance down
> to check your speed much easier. Would it be hard to swap my truck's
> cluster backlighting out to orange? Is it just a few bulbs, or what? If I
> can do that, I'll be switching to whiteface gauges.
> Thanks!
> Later,
> Jon
> jonram@megalink.net
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