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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 07:24 AM
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I would like to convert my interior lighting (dome lamp bulbs F/R) to match the guages and center console.....does anyone know a good way to do this, or someplace to purchase these bulbs.

P.S. I did the rear fog mod....so cool
I love the little things
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 08:08 AM
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You can buy red bulbs or buy some sort of painters gel and cover your while bulbs so that they are red whenever you use or open doors, etc...
If you're talking about having red interior lights while driving you can give the Red Dome Light Mod (tech section). I've tried it many times doesn't work, i know others who can't get it to work. But you can give it a try, otherwise there is the W8 Passat Sunroof Control; Quattrofrog has done it.

Lastly you just did the dual rear fog, what did you use to make contact from the bulb and bulb hole to the actual current?
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 08:08 AM
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red transparency film or something similar in the lights will do it
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 08:10 AM
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I was able to get the LED dome mod to work... just takes some tricky grounding
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 08:27 AM
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thats what I figured I did everyting else perfect. How exactly did you ground it? any details...
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 10:08 AM
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Default I grounded it to the negative of lights already in the console. (more)

also, make SURE that the ground is not touching anything else... the first time I sodlered it in, the solder was just barely touching the positive terminal... and that would mean it wouldn't work. there is not much clearance in there so you have to be meticulous in your use of sodler.
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 10:34 AM
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Default installing RR fog light conversion

All I had to do was elongate the hole in the right rear tail lens, and install a bulb......should it have been more difficult???
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 10:47 AM
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check my site for some interior lighting mods
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 10:56 AM
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that didnt work for me? i need to have it reach source of lighting somehow..... or so i thought
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 11:12 AM
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Default i went to shucks and picked up some red bulbs for the interior lights for 5 bucks total

it makes the car feel like a stealth fighter at night witht the whole infared effect.
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