tmigala
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tmigala
Nice look I even like your license plate
I don't know about anyone else, but i have problems seeing the turn signals indicators on the instrument panel during the day. I wish they were brighter. The same for the trip meeter.
Anyone have a suggestion on how to make them brighter?
Mine is same, completely invisible in daylight.
Same here. I found the best fix for this problem is to drive under a bridge or into the night. That's it. Sorry, I bet you thought I was going to say something useful! I looked into this one several times. Looked for brighter bulbs, but the Ford dealer said nothing they can do. The only thing I think may solve the problem is a solution I had seen on a BMW touring bike. It had a very deep shelf that was set at the same angle with the drivers vision to form a deep box that would not let very much light onto the cluster. I just did not want to bolt something on to the cluster because it has such nice smooth and rounded lines. I bet is someone could come up with something out of cardboard they could see if this concept would work.
For now i took a piece of turn signal plastic about 1/8 x 1/4 in thick and 1 in long and super glued it to the top edge of the front turn signals lens. It sits just high enough for me to see the plastic. It does help during the day i can seen the front turn signals flashing. It is not as bright id like, but it is better than the ones in the instrument cluster.
I'm thinking of wiring an LED to the turn signals and mounting in inside corners of the dash. Still thinking it out.
I wounder if TMS know how hard it is to see the light in the dash, and if they have something in the work to improve it.
TBMS knows how hard it is to see the instrument cluster lights. I think they look at that as off limits because it is a complete ford part. Unelss they go to a new cluster I don't think they are going to address it. I like the LED solution if you can make it work. I only have the problem in the bright sun. I would like to have a bright LED for the turn signals, and most improtant the High beam because that is when I have my Wig-Wag on . I noticed I can see my directions on Ducati Monster by looking at the top plastic of my turn signals like you are creating. I think Stallions are not alone when it comes to this issue.
[QUOTE=Mattel;20777]TBMS knows how hard it is to see the instrument cluster lights. I think they look at that as off limits because it is a complete ford part. Unelss they go to a new cluster I don't think they are going to address it. I like the LED solution if you can make it work. I only have the problem in the bright sun. I would like to have a bright LED for the turn signals, and most improtant the High beam because that is when I have my Wig-Wag on . I noticed I can see my directions on Ducati Monster by looking at the top plastic of my turn signals like you are creating. I think Stallions are not alone when it comes to this issue.[/QUOTE]
If this is a Ford product, do you think there would be an adjustment rheostat somewhere like in a car for the gage brightness?
[QUOTE=Mattel;20777]TBMS knows how hard it is to see the instrument cluster lights. I think they look at that as off limits because it is a complete ford part. Unelss they go to a new cluster I don't think they are going to address it. I like the LED solution if you can make it work. I only have the problem in the bright sun. I would like to have a bright LED for the turn signals, and most improtant the High beam because that is when I have my Wig-Wag on . I noticed I can see my directions on Ducati Monster by looking at the top plastic of my turn signals like you are creating. I think Stallions are not alone when it comes to this issue.[/QUOTE]
I think that is a lot of our problems, ie, it is a Ford part. I am not impressed by Ford parts. I dont see TBMS creating a solution for this either. Hopefully, some of you talented guys will come up with a solution.
Cas,
They are idiot lights, they are either Idiots or not! Their is no inbetween.
My solution was to attach LED arrows on my mirrors. I am able to see it ok in the daylight.
Because of my height the Mirrors view is too low and has big blind spots. To fix this I stold the GoldWing's add on mirror ideal and place their bind view mirror on top of my current mirrors and this now gives a full view now.