need some help from the electrical gurus...

[LoJac963]

So I started taking pieces apart to start my full interior LED conversion. All my main lamps are done but now I'm trying to remove and solder in LED's into everywhere else: door controls, seat controls (on driver door), and all the various lighted components on the dash from the headlight buttons to the radio, 4x4 buttons and climate control.

So here's what I've got, there's 3 differnet forms of lights in the H2 (2006 at least):

3mm LED bulbs I found to be 5mA and 2.8volt (so far these are in the driver door seat controls)

What I think to be 1208 SMD LED's at 5mA 2.9volt (these are in the driver door window buttons)

Regular filament bulbs roughly 4mm I've seen in the headlight controls on the dash and the steering wheel controls.

Here's the issues. replacing the 3mm LED's are no problem they are pretty standard. The SMD's I am having a hard time finding them in reverse mount which they need to be for the window controls as they are mounted and shine through the circuit board.

Also I don't know what issues I will run into just throwing LED's in the places where the regular filament bulbs are. I pulled an 11.25 volt reading from one of the regular bulbs meaning I would have to pick up completely different 3mm LED's rated at 12volt which are much more expensive and don't need a resistor. However I'm worried the 12volt LED's will shine a different color light compared to the lower wattage LED's.

I thought maybe figure out a resistor and use the same 3-4watt LED's throughout but trying to solder in resistors in addition to new LED's may be a hassle--that was before I found 3mm 12volt LED's online.

So what are your thoughts, opinions, advice??

Also now that I've been messing with stuff now my top 2 steering wheel controls will not light up. The buttons work fine but they won't light after removing and reinstalling them a few times-any ideas??

I don't know part of me thinks screw it and just put things back together and scrap the whole idea but the other part of me really wants to tackle this and have a completely unique interior and get rid of all the nasty yellow lighting. I do have some burned out areas in addition to the steering wheel buttons now.....

Let me know what you all think. Thanks in advance!