have just seen the photo of a members car with backlit rear badge detail,can anyone tell me how to achieve this plz

With creativity and ingenuity, Ad did that some years ago now and no-one to my knowledge has had another go since, shame really I always though it was a brilliant mod

First thing you have to do is separate the back and the front of the unit, as I recall, its filled with a sort of silver honeycomb like material, so you'd need to remove that from the area of the lettering, then get the black off, probably build some sort of box to contain the light, then fit a decent light source

Light it up with an EL panel, they are paper thin, so easy to fit

I might attempt this IF she passes the MOT as I still have a load of spare LEDs lying around. Would also do the MAZDA writing on the other side so it looks symmetrical.

I think the one Ad did had both lit

Gonna have a look for the origional topic...

Found it

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12791&hilit=Light+up+rear+panel

All the pictures are gone though

great,top info thanks guys i will make it my first job in the morning

or cheat and own the one that Ad made first.............
ohhh thats me, and its been improved but not by much

someone else has done it recently

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=49318

I did it too! I've used 4 led strips. 2 on the left, 2 on the right each one with 9 smd's.