i got sick of the green lighting so i changed everything to white leds

pics coming up later on

the radio alone has 9 bulbs

 

What kind of LEDs did you use. You dont want to have hotspots. What degrees were they..

 

not sure who makes them, i just happened to get 65 for free

not a single hot spot, i found out if u cut the tops off them sand them down to be flat it speads the light evenly, u would never know my radio is not stock except for it being a little brighter than the stock lighting and color

 

I want to do the same thing.... Do you have a DIY or can you make a DIY because I know htere are a lot of people interested in doing it...

 

i really didn't make one

i can try to make one up in a day or so

 

Did you take any pics also... How long did it take you to do the whole dash..... Did you do everything behind the guages also...

 

 

Tatewaki - do u have a DIY...

 

here is the one pic i have

 

see if this works

 

Looks sick -- I wish tl's came stock like that, my friend's got a es300 and the cluster is this very bright white and it looks sick. How long did that take, was it hard???

 

Here is the DIY on how to do it.

http://natestl.seattleone.com/LEDProject.html

This guy nate was the pioneer of it all

 

didn't even know someone made a how to

but like it says do to any other color than blue like i did is a pain

u need to remove all the blue filtering from the parts, some are actually part of the gauges/switches. the only waty to remove that blue color is with nail polish remover, which basically melts away the blue and u have a clear background

also if u don't cut the led and made it falt u will have bad looking hot spots


also my radio is much different than that one in the how 2, taking it apart is much easier, but the bulbs are soldering and not twisted in like the pics, if i get some more time i'll take more pics

 

but even with blue leds, you need to remove all the blue filters to get a good results. I managed to remove most of them, except for AC temp knob and defrost. Every other blue filters I removed them.

 

did u remove the ones from the sunroof and cruise switch?

cause i kow on my CL they aren't removable unless u take nailpolish remove and wipe them off, which can ruin the pic on the switch like i did with my cruise switch

 

also if anyone is interested, i can do this fot them for a small fee, just tell me what led color

 

You can remove those too. TL and CL switches are the same. You just need to pull the plastic off. the plastic button faces are snap-ons. Just pull it off, then remove the blue filter inside. the filter is a simple piece of plastic lens with some sticky on one side

 

where in NY u from?

 

wish that was true, i know the button face is an actual sticker, but the face has the blue built into it

 

Staten Island

 

i really want to do this in blue... dont know what im waiting for....

 

its very easy to do, just make sure to spead the light oput evenly or u WILL get hot spots

 

I don't mean the sticker. I've done it and I garantee 100% you can remove the blue filters in them. You pull the while piece of plastic where the sticker is on it. You'll see the filter behind it. Once removed, just snap the plastic back in. I never touched the sticker.

 

then scura must have made different buttons for the CL/TL or the different years, cause mine is actually part of the sticker

i'll try to get a pic of it tonight

 

here are some more pics

 

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wow nice job! And you did the mirror too. That's the 1st time I've seen it done in the mirror. Just wondering how to you take apart the mirror?

 

it's just snapped together, and they are very tiny leds about 1/4 the size of a dime

that and the navi screen were the hardest parts to do

 

Hey rbf3511, how much would you charge to do this in my 2003 TL Type-S? I would love to have the blue leds in my car. Your car looks great by the way. I have no navi...

 

yeah..im intrested too..i want red

 

Red would be bad ass too... reminds me of a BMW. I love that red color. I also really like blue. Although I'd choose any color really besides whats in there now, to make it unique. It seems like it would be so hard to do, because you ahve to pull apart the damn dash and everything right?? Well, I'm gonna read the DIY instructions and see if I'm up for this.

 

I did red interior LED lighting earlier this year. 2003 TL with navigation. Did my gauges as well.. here is a pic of my gauge

 

i loved the audi gauges and interior... now the bmw it is like wanna be red, kinda orange. but the audi is really really bad ass.

i thought about white, but i don't think white would look that nice. i changed my led for my A/C Auto to super white and the such.


Installed the Audi/BMW style mood LED's in my sunglass compartment, drilled two nice little holes.

 

heres my little super white led on my auto button

 

here is my old gauges, i got so sick of the white "lexus" style and the TL-P gauges, i switched it out with TL-S gauges and wired my TCS to VSA and also got the exclamation mark to blink when TCS engauges.

 

my red radio

 

that looks good...maybe i'll give it a try...sounds so hard tho

 

it'd take some guts to pull apart the whole dash, then open up all the components then solder. If you have some soldering skills, you'll be half way there.