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Can anybody advise me how much I should expect to pay for one of these?

Also, who should I speak to regarding, modifying one so the lights fit in the dash like I have seen on some pictures before?

Cheers

Can anybody help? I have searched and found that they are available from BRD for about £155 however can anyone point me in the direction of someone who will modifiy these to fit in the dash?

I believe ScoobyClinic can do it

www.scoobyclinic.com

Regards,

NS04

There is the occasional group buy which gets the price down to about 115 or 120. I got mine secondhand from ebay for 85.

modifying is very very easy if you have a soldering iron, and will cost you about £2!!

keep an eye out for one 2nd hand mate, tend to go for £85-£125.

They are dead easy to fit as well

Do telll.......

About to do another one now, will take some pics and post in an hour or so

1. Remove the 4 screws from back of KL and remove top

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0819.jpg

2. Remove nut and washer holding PCB board to back.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0818.jpg

3. Turn over board to show where LEDS are soldered to board

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0817.jpg

4. Solder extension wires to LED connections on board. Use 2 different colours for each connector on the LED, the green wires are connected to the leg on the flat side of the LED (cathode??)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0816.jpg

5. Wires tidied up and tie wrapped to exit case in centre.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0814.jpg

6. Create slot in case top to allow wires to exit
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0815.jpg

7. Solder LEDS to extension wires, ensuring the correct legs of each LED are connected to the corresponding LED on the board (and that the cathode side of the LEDS match). Now carefully cut off the original LEDS from the board.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0813.jpg

8. Reassemble

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...knock_0812.jpg

9. Happy days :D :notworthy :luxhello: :thumb:

Cheers chaps, much appreciated. Im gonna keep my eye on Ebay for a bargain and I will probably do the mod myself.

Where's the best place to get the LED's and which ones I am looking for ?

Nice step by step guide mate, might think about repositioning mine now.

I was going to put it in the air vent but seeing that I now have other ideas :)

Where have you put yours?

ill post a pic of where iv put mine later as they are on my phone at the mo! only prob is i need to move sides as iv put it at the right hand side of the clocks and it covers some dash lights, doh! didnt realise untill i turned the ignition on!

I regularly modify knocklinks to extend the original leds.
PM me if you want pics and costs.

Ive done over 20 so far...

Willy

Maplins or RS components. Just get standard 5mm (or any size) LEDS, i bought 12v ones at first and these didn't work, i also bought extra bright ones, but these were clear and i could not tell which one was which colour and ended up burming them out trying to power them up :iamwithst . You could aslo reuse the originals if you want 3mm green and amber and a 5mm red LEDs(i have reused the high brightness red one).

Fitted using 5mm convex LED holders from maplin (sorry about the crap photo from my phone :()



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...w_scoob/KL.jpg

Excellent stuff mate, didnt realise it would be so simple.

How come you have to remove the original ones? Lack of power?

correct :)