Recent content by Sierra117

Initially: Now: The left pic shows the balance and uniformity better and the right pic shows the blue color better. There's only miniscule differences now. I ended up using some packing foam I had lying around to dim the hot spots and even out the rest. Some was clear-ish white, about 1/8...

Black permanent marker? How much dimmer did it make the brightness? If say the LED's were a 10/10 brightness at first, would you say the marker dropped them to like a 8/10 or maybe 4/10? Did the color stay the same? If you had the same LED's but some with black marker and some without, would you...

Here's a picture of the radio with the blue LED's. I used blue because I ordered a stepper motor kit for the instrument cluster and it came with blue, red, and white LED's. I used the white for the gauges, so I chose blue instead of red for the radio. As you can see, some buttons light up...

I realize this may be way too late for you, but it might help some others. This stock GM/CHEV radio can also be found in vehicles such as Silverado, Sierra, Tahoe, Yukon, etc. There are 3 bulbs that are 4mm, and 7 bulbs that are 3mm I believe. 10 altogether. It's all 12VDC and they're all in...