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Location: Valdosta, GA

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2004 Honda Element

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  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP-1
  • Weight-1lbs

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  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

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Interior

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Chris’s Honda Element

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This is how to change he lights in your Elements climate controls to what ever your little heart desires.

Tools needed...Phillips Screwdriver... needlenose pliers... soldering iron and solder... a cutting tool...and some good old fashion elbow grease.

Parts required...3 each 3mm LED's, 3 each 5mm LED. The 5mm are the top ones and the 3mm are on the bottom. The 5 mm led's need to be the same as the ones from the 2nd page, and you need to do the same thing to them. I got the 3mm LED's from Ebay. They make red ones that are alreay 12 v ready and dont require any resistance so they are easy.

First step is to turn on your ignition, put on your E-Brake, and put your shifter into neutral. The turn off the car and dissconnect your negative cable on your battery. Manual transmission cars do not need the ignition turned on.

OK grab the center dash panel on the passenger lower side and pull like hell. Beleive me you wont break it! Your fingers will hurt , but its worth it.

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Keep pulling! See why we are in neutral now?

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Now dissconnect the connector on the drivers back of the hazard lights button

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


The dissconnect the connector for the climate controls.

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Pull it off

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Should look like this

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


turn it around and look at the back of the climate controls and you'll see this

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


remove the 4 silver screws

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Use the pliers or a flat tip screwdriver to pry the top part of the plastic cover off. Make sure you push in those clips. Dont break anything!

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Pull it away

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


You'll se this

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Now slide the circuit board outwards and you'll see the light bulbs in there sockets!

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


OK heres what they look like when you pull them out and remove the light bulb

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


And here is the 5mm LED from the 2nd page

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Now, take the post from the old light bulb and measure 1/2 inch from the top of it. Note the mark

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Now cut with your cutting tool of choice (mine was a dremal)

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Should look like this when done.

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Aight, now your almost done. Next just slide the 5mm led assy into the cut post. Looks good.

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element

Now you will probebly notice that the power lead sticking out of the LED isnt quite long enough to get the job done. So what I did was cut off the lead from the stock light bulbs. Then solder the leads from the old bulb to the leads to the LED's leads and wrap the leads around the bottom of the post like they were when you took them out. I couldnt get any good pics os this because the leads are so small. SORRY

OK, now the easy part, the 3mm LED's.

Heres what they look like when you pull them out.

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


The 12 v ready 3mm leds I bought on ebay.

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element


Its easy all you gottd do is pull out the old bulb and put the new LED into polace and do the same thing to the leads as you had to for the 5mm leds. That's is soooo simple.

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element

All you gotta do now is put everything back together in reverse order.

Should look like this

hondaguru04's 2004 Honda Element

Have fun and good luck! If you break something its not my fault!!!!

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pmiller671  

Posted by: pmiller671

10/24/2008 08:29AM

Why did you have to cut the posts when you had to make the leads longer anyways (5mm) ?? They must have had the new guys at Honda design this set-up.

brownillusion  

Posted by: brownillusion

09/20/2007 07:18PM

HI love your modz
now i live in canada and having hard time find 12V LED most i can find is LED that will have to put a resistor on care to help me out also i have honda odessy and Aucra intergra for which i like to do the modz will be you able to help me out pls
thanks
email me at wickedrider@Hotmail.com

Rzid79  

Posted by: Rzid79

11/01/2006 06:05AM

man you need to take some new pics!

BoxOn20s  

Posted by: BoxOn20s

11/27/2005 06:46PM

All I can say is WOW. That mod looks great. I've painted the whole exterior of my E FBP so I figure I should bite your style and do the same on the interior. Great work. Check out my E if you get a chance.

hondaguru04  

Posted by: hondaguru04

04/02/2005 05:56PM

Well, in order for me to make you some of them I woulod have to have your climate controls. Yes I am curently working on changing all the lights over to blue or red in certian places. I will update as it comes. As you can see from the Cluster page now I have had to change my plans around because just the wedge bulbs themselves dont fit. They are too long for the cluster. So the cluster is actually more of a pain in the ass then the climate controls.

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Location: Valdosta, GA