Attention All Philly(and surrounding) Xd'ers.

I'm looking to do a LED Swap to an xD around the area.

Please contact me if your interested.

Thanks

Bumpty

im in carlisle and work for faulkner harrisburg in pa, you can try using my xd also if you need any service information feel free to ask i can get you any factory info you need

I never done an LED swap before and i did it myself for the first time. It is so easy dude if you have any mechanical skills at all you can do it. Just get you a soldering iron and desoldering braid which soaks up the melted solder and you can do it. i practiced on a computer game controller first and i took it apart took off buttons off the board soldered it back up and it worked. Soldering is very easy but if your that nervous then keep searching.

um.....no I've been doing LED swap for 2 years. I'm saying I want to do a new xd gauges.

um.....no I've been doing LED swap for 2 years. I'm saying I want to do a new xd gauges.

He's trying to get a xD to get a sample of what to do on the xD's gauges, he's already done tCs, xAs and xB2s so why stop there? am i right dasaint?

^^^ HIT IT ON THE DOT!!!

i would gladly give up my gauges to science if you haven't found someone yet :)

That would be so cool to have a different color on my gauges!

Anyone in SoCal wana do this to my xD? :P

steve, how about using sonyas car? ill give her my xb for teh weekend, and we can have teh xD at the shop.......

^^
yessss let's do it :)

...just be careful driving my car lol

after feb we can do it.

Sounds good to me mang!

lol where do i fit in this equation?

you get to drive the xD with the led swap in it? lol

You guys do a swap yet? I'm looking to do mine but I'm wondering if it's just an LED swap, or if I have to do more like with the tC's HVAC?

As soon as my xD is in, I will be rocking a swap :) Will show how it turns out!

Good! I really want to do a swap in mine but I don't want to be the test subject :P

My new baby will be the test subject :)

Haha I hear ya! I don't have the time to fix things if it doesn't just swap out easily. My main concern is I'm going to go blue and I don't want to end up with dim lights like what happens to a tC if you don't modify the electonics.

I never got he DIM issue in the TC with all the swaps I've done....I'm doing an XD soon actually.

You have never swapped an hvac in a tC then, if you do not use the resistor power ic, it turns out fugly dim. Takes the resistor / power ic mod to make it equal brightness to the gauge cluster no matter what led you use.

^^ are you doubting the abilities of steve?

thats not smart....

Well if that is what you call it, not sure how he managed to get any led other than red to be bright in a stock tC hvac without increasing power to the led *LOL* Hard to deny how leds physically work and voltage required to light them.

oh on the HVAC yes I thought he meant on the Speedo.

haha ok cool :) Yeah the only dimming is related to the HVAC :) The XD should have 0 dimming issues and I will show how to mod the cluster to be even brighter depending on light output.

Brighter? Oi, it's bright enough IMO! I'm thinking the XD shouldn't have any dimming issues as well on the HVAC side, but still I'd rather not be the test subject ;) My wife would kill me if it ended up with problems!

The xd hvac control knobs are common among many toyotas today, so no issue. Also the gauges will have no issue, they run at the proper voltage already as they are white leds stock.

Ohhhh well then... knowing that I might just pop them off and have at it! Blue/White here I come!

Oh wait... I have to have TIME to do this. DOH!

What about the side panels in the gauge cluster that house the warning lights and odo/gas meter. I want to do my ODO and gas meter in white, but don't they have the amber LEDs behind them?

I'll just wait till this whole thing has been figured out, then I'll get mine done :)

1st xd swap.

http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3396279#3396279

Very nice! Man it's hard to believe there's MORE LEDs back there than the tC... but oh well! How easy was the cluster to remove?

Cake to remove. Yank off the coat of arms surround and you will see two phillips screw / bolts on the bottom. Take those out, unplug the cluster from the front and pull it out. That simple.