Dash light help

[airboatgreg]

I would say that the aluminum tilt T-shaped piece is broken or bound. If you decide to get into it let me know and I can walk you through it. I fixed many Saginaw columns when "splacking" was the rage in car stealing

 

[mobileaudio25]

What bulbs did you finally end up with, and from who? Do they work with the dimmer? Got any nice after pics to show us?

I did a test fit with everything. So nothing is installed now. I'm redoing all of my interior currently. They do not work with the dimmer. I like the bright dash cluster so I don't care too much about dimming. They make different lumen bulbs if you don't want it very bright. I had to rewire speakers, radio, all my gauges, dome lights Ect. I will say though that I'm a huge led fan I do have another car with complete leds...

I get most of my bulbs from super bright leds and only from vleds when I have too (very nice bulbs just a lot more money). I have dome, courtesy, dash, gauge, license plate, front corner marker and turn signal leds in my Malibu if you would like the part numbers. I'm going to do my tail lights just haven't yet.
Don't have any pics on my phone with everything put together I just wanted to make sure the bulbs worked. You can see the difference in brightness and color.

I have switchback led turn signals. So when my running lights are on they are white and when I use my turn signal it turns to the amber color and blinks amber

Just running lights no turn signal

 

[mobileaudio25]

I would say that the aluminum tilt T-shaped piece is broken or bound. If you decide to get into it let me know and I can walk you through it. I fixed many Saginaw columns when "splacking" was the rage in car stealing

I got under there turned my high beam lights on and when I manually clicked my brights switch nothing happened. I think who ever wired everything up before I got the car didn't wire the brights up right or at all. I'm not too worried about getting to work as I don't drive the car a ton let alone much at night. I'm debating if I want to spend the time fixing it or not.... I can move the switch and the rod freely but the leaver won't move anything . I don't think it's binded because I can move the rod probably broken like you said

 

[pontiacgp]

I did a test fit with everything. So nothing is installed now. I'm redoing all of my interior currently. They do not work with the dimmer.

autometer make a module that you can wire in so your dimmer control will work with led bulbs

http://www.autometer.com/led-lighting-dimmer.html