Blue LED Lights in place of the stock green ones (Speedometer)

[serega12]

That's what mine used to look like. And for the odometer you gotta replace the bulb and remove the green film/sheet...

[jonelledge]

How hard was out to remove the film on the odometer? Is like to take ours of but i didn't wanna break it and have to buy another.

[serega12]

How hard was out to remove the film on the odometer? Is like to take ours of but i didn't wanna break it and have to buy another.

If your odometer is already out of the car and partially disassembled, it is fairly easy. If you still have to do everything and never have done it before - it can get pretty involving. The trickiest part I think is calibrating the needles and installing them in the correct position.

[sbelcher]

does anyone know how to get behind the thermo controls to change the color of those defrost lights and a/c button lights on the 1st generation aveo

[jonelledge]

Ohh I won't mess with it then lol. And the ac- heater controls are easy at least for the first gen. Just remove the trim in the sides.( held in by clips) they just pop off. There is like 2-4 Philips screws holding the whole assembly in. Be careful when u pull the assembly out. It will not come out all the way and the plastic is brittle. There is a plugthat goes to 4 lights. They twist just like the dash lights just smaller.install the lights in the 4 bases. Turn the park lights on make sure they r in the right direction and install and put back together. About 15 min for me to do mine. I got other lights ans will be redoing it again an see ill pribibly take pics when I do it. But one kety tool is needle nose plyers if possible 45 defree bent needle nose works best! But is possible with out if you have small fingers. Please be careful and not break the cables on the back that controls the a\c vent door! Like I said its very brittle. Hope this helps. Once you get it off you'll see how where the lighta go.

[serega12]

Search for led install... There was a how to on here somewhere. That's what I followed.

[TommyGunn]

I haven't seen anyone actually post pics but it's REALLY easy to change the bulbs on the first gen AVEO5.
To take it off just unscrew the top two screws above the speedo, pull the front off, then unscrew the 5 larger screws that hold the speedo in. Unplug the cable from the bottom and flip the speedo over to access the bulbs, then just twist the bulb holders out as shown: http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/f103/...63/#post174086
For the 5 big bulbs you need T10/168/194 for the 1 little bulb you need T5/74/73 just look on eBay and buy extra cuz they're from china so they don't always all work. You can see there are 5 small bulbs up top for the turn signals, driving light, e-break, etc. but I wouldn't change those colors as they're actually clear bulbs and the color is in the "display."
I haven't pulled apart the center console and I don't know if I ever will to change those bulbs so I can't help there other than they're also T5/74/73 bulbs.

u can do the turns blue it looks good

[Geo]

I have rough PDF on the install for the first gen if anyone is interested

[sappmann99]

I'd like that pdf. I'm trying to repalce all the bulbs with red led's

[serega12]

I have rough PDF on the install for the first gen if anyone is interested

You can attach it to your post in here. That way people can download it as needed.