View Full Version : Blue Dashboard Backlighting


fromos
06-07-2005, 03:18 AM
The Amber backlighting color on the current Scions are just plain ugly. Why even offer a blue or red under the dash lighting for a couple of hundred dollars if the dashboard is going to be a different color? Why offer a radio head unit that changes colors or is blue if the dashboard is just plain amber? Volkswagon Jettas and Mazda 3s come with blue dashboard lighting and it looks pretty good. Supposedly Volkswagon's blue is is the same blue used on airport runways, is easy to discern and very easy on the eyes. If people are tearing apart their dashboards and soldering in blue LEDs themselves to get the blue lighting, obviously people want this bad enough:
http://scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37747
http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37729
http://scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36206
When they do this themselves they risk damaging the guages or making them inaccurate, or making them less reliable, or causing a wiring problem which can start a fire which is not a good thing. Please make a better factory standard backlighting, or at least offer other colors as an option.

jmiller20874
06-17-2005, 07:28 PM
Already got mine. Looky how purdy....

http://www.scionlife.com/gallery/data/500/medium/P4210012.JPG

Scion should give this as an option or just make it standard.

fromos
07-14-2005, 11:06 PM
nice

fromos
07-22-2005, 04:46 PM
the new mitsubishi eclipse has an ice blue dashboard backlighting

blackbow
07-31-2005, 07:49 PM
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the amber either. Blue would be VERY nice.

johnnyTCblaze
07-31-2005, 08:29 PM
Already got mine. Looky how purdy....

http://www.scionlife.com/gallery/data/500/medium/P4210012.JPG

Scion should give this as an option or just make it standard.

Where did you get your LEDS from? I heard the blue LEDS come out very dim. Yours looks pretty bright to me. Please let me know.

Cashus
08-02-2005, 06:21 AM
I would actually love to see the same type of user selectable backlighting that is on the new ford mustang, that way you would be able to change the color to suit your mood.

it would be perfect for scion's 'customizable' image and probably be a huge selling point for most of the potential buyer base!

Shadow_Fax
08-06-2005, 08:46 PM
that looks really damn good....i would jump on the chance to get blue blacklights

Friek
09-13-2005, 04:42 PM
blue or red standard would be nice.

fromos
11-17-2005, 12:38 AM
Scion has to be reading this!

bath789
11-22-2005, 08:43 PM
How does that idea sound to you? |)

TheQuietThings
11-22-2005, 09:21 PM
wow i want. a lot.

ricexizxgood
11-28-2005, 07:23 AM
great idea

fromos
01-23-2006, 04:20 PM
Should have been done right the first time.