Well, there's a few more cases of "gee, I didn't know
that button was supposed to light up" for me
.
So the next question is: How do you get at the lights in all of those buttons along the bottom of the dash? From the front (pry off the button caps)? Or from behind (remove parts of the instrument panel)? Either way, how? (is this already posted elsewhere?)
Has anyone tried using small LEDs instead of incandescent bulbs?
The only thing that would make it difficult is that an LED usually needs a current-limiting resistor. But there actually
are resistors small enough in size that they could fit inside the plastic bulb holder, underneath an LED (though it would be a b*tch to solder something that small).
An LED would make the lampholder polarized, so if it didn't work the first time, you'd have to rotate it 180 degrees. But it would probably be the last time you ever needed to replace it.