LED and Swarovski Crystal Clock

1st Thank you to Zion for the help and inspiration.  I am NOT the original on this one but I liked it enough to imitate. This is for the Y33 Q45.

I replaced the dull lights of the OEM clock with the three LED/per bulb style.  Then I did the Black Diamond Swarovski Crystals two between each hour hand on the clock.  Originally I wanted to just do one at the end of each hand but the minute hand rubbed against the crystals so I altered the plan.  Than I did the two rows around the dash trim surrounding the clock.Here are the pics:
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The clock by itself
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The Trim part way done
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The LED's
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LED's before the Crystal upgrade
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Finally the big show LED's at night with Crystal
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I used an adhesive from an arts supply store that needed to be mixed first and then set in 30 minutes so I did the clock, then the bottom half of the trim and then the top half of the trim.  Each time I mixed a small amount of the adhesive and it definately takes patience.  Enjoy.:dance:

Cool, classy bling

looks expensive

^It's not really, but thank you.  The Crystals are about 20 bucks for 144 of them I think and the adhesive was about 7 or so...  The LED's cost about 6 a piece however...

came out nice! i did the same thing, after seeing zion's of course. your leds are pretty bright n white in pictures. i wish my f50 had a white face clock like y33's instead of silver :sad: it looks more classy.

Lookin' good!

Your F50 clock face is silver?  I'll have a closer look at mine in the day light.  Looks nice!

yup, and i dont have the sport pkg either. [IMG]http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v143/81/91/19513159/n19513159_31552955_9491.jpg[/IMG]
i think thats the closest picture i have of it. it looks cheaper and more modern than the white face with gold dials and markers. :shrug: not a big deal i just thought it was an unfortunate downgrade. 
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cant really see it in pictures but its brushed finished. i need to do the outer bezel like burgy and zion did but i got lazy lining them up then using that weird glue and tweezer things to apply them. idk how the hell zion put so many all over id get frustrated.

^:smiley-rofl:.  The clock looks good, nice work.  you wanna sell me that cima V8 badge?:bigok:

I actually used a bunch of toothpicks to do mine,  I would get adhesive on one toothpick and then touch the back of a crystal, then take another toothpick and transfer the crystal to it so there wasn't too much adhesive on it, then I would use a 3rd one to move it around and press it in place as well as get it off the 2nd toothpick.  I made sure I never got cross mojination either.....

Probably going to do my girls I35 clock as well.  looks a lot like your F50 clock.

Looks good Burgy
 
Jaynick808, my clock bezel is chrome :shrug:

is the face white?

No the face looks like yours, just the Bezal is chrome.
 
Lots of lights in my interior burnt out, I need to replace them when I get a chance.  I'm going to look for your PM with directions as to how to get to the clock.  If I can't find it, ill hit you up.  Thanks

[url]http://www.superbrightleds.com/led_prods.htm[/url]

In Case it helps...Got a bunch more cheap from there.

My face is the same but my bezel is also chrome.

DAMB!!! Looks great!! Makes me wish I had an annalog clock in my car!!! It would match my vents!!!!  [IMG]http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l50/IchibanOyabun/GarsonDAD2.jpg[/IMG]

^Yeah, I looked into those, but I want to stay a little more subtle.  Thinking about doing three crystals per vent tab (the piece you use to direct the vents)???

classy upgrade

Mmmmm... Would LOVE to source a white faced or brushed f50 clock to replace the black one in my y34.

wow it looks really bright. Nice job. :biggthumpup: 
 
huh y34 has a black clock, interesting maybe i shoul look for an another clock and try making it back???  :yahoo_39:

I think only the y34 and f50 are interchangable.  From the pictures I see here, the f50 clocks look the exact same as mine!!

Now finding an f50 clock is a whole nother story!!

Many of you have seen the Swarovski Crystals in and around the analog clock in the Q, but I replaced the white LEDs in the Clock and while I was at it, replaced teh HVAC bulbs with blue LED's as well.
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For those they have always been wanting to do the LED's in the HVAC, I used NEO4 twist lock LED's from Superbrightleds.com and the clock LED's are T1.5 twist locks.
 
Remember, if the LED doesn't light up, take it out and turn it a half turn the put it back in! haha ask me how I know, I got so frustrated until I remembered that.

:biggthumpup:

i think it looks good by its lonesome, but a bit to bling bling for the outdated center console

looks sick! Are you gonna change the rest of the lights to blue?

^ Most of those lights will go when the DD goes in, the rest will probably get a blue tint as they are internal hard wired lights inside the switches.  I actually did the Crystals a few years ago and just recently updated the lights

Looks nice

[QUOTE=m0nster986;226720]looks expensive[/QUOTE]

LOL!  that's exactly what I wanted to say.

I was thinking of adding a few swarovski crystals to my clock as well. After i saw yours a while back. :) Been meaning to look up how to take it apart. lol. Guess I found out now. Thanks Burgy.