There have been a lot of requests for a DIY on changing the color of the headunit lights. It would be an understatement to say that doing this is difficult. I have decided to change my color scheme from blue and white to red and white. Here are some pictures of the process.


This is a shot of what I currently have. I am in the process of converting the bose display and ac display to red. My goal is to change the blue accent lights to red.




Here are some pictures of my car after the headunit was removed. As you can see there are a lot of plugs… I removed my glove box because I wanted to reorganize my edfc lines.


A shot of my messy work bench.


Here is the PC board behind the headunit. The top piece is the navigation board.


PC board lit.


A closeup shot of the SMDs. Theyre REALLY tiny and take a lot of precision and patience to solder on.

I will update more as this goes on. G35lin and Rever are helping me out with this.

 

ehhhh, i just take stuff apart.. put it bak?? hmmm what does that mean????

:P

Ed Lin

 

Very nice!

 

What sizes are the SM LED's? It looks like most of the buttons are 1208's and the status lights are 0805's? Also, how many LED's are needed total for the radio/AC section?

 

ill get you a count today.

 

39 and 5 i am not sure which ones exactly though, youll have to ask rever since he provides me with the parts.

 

OK, thanks! PM sent, and now I just need to complete my LED clear corner mod, then on to this one. Time to brush up on the SMD solder skills....

 

holy ****. that's a dope mix of light. blue and white. purdy.. lol i wanna bite your **** to mine.. i have white-ish/blue dome lights and it looks kinna weird with orange interior lights.. lol.

 

awesome! be sure to post pics! good luck!

 

i would do it, but i dont kno shiet how to do it and im afraid that ill *** things up

 

chick fil a!!

 

haha yup! i love it!

 

anyone tried this mod on an 05 or up coupe. i know the gauges are slightly different, curious what it's like underneath

 

LED's are here.... sadly the clear corners are not Luckily, I can still wire up the circuit and test it. Then again, that should take all of an hour and I won't be back home till after new years... So that's one more xmas present to myself I guess. Pictures will be coming once it is up and running. Depending on demand, I might do a DIY for the LED clear corners plus having blinkers. Yes, it would only be slightly different than the one already posted...

 

just a quick update. ac display and bose display in red to match the rest of my red/white theme. also v1 display on the far left and edfc unit in the ash tray