WHERE WOULD BE THE BEST PLACE TO TAKE MY TC TO HAVE THE LED'S CHANGED IN HOUSTON?

 

For what part of your car, turn signals?

 

Isn't their a guy "roses" or sumptin that doesn't them that lives in H-Town

 

i want to change the gauges and HVAC

 

rose's of houston or somthing like that.... they did bret's ride. came out clean.

 

good lordy seems like lonestar is getting a lotta of these....Roses is no longer in business. Stero FX said they would be willing to look at a tC to see how much trouble it would be and possible setup a discount for us.

 

Some one on in our car club it for my sisters tC. Its been done for 8 months and no problems. In tech for the forum it shows you how to do it urself.

 

DIY its much cheaper.....

 

Yea Roses of Houston did mine, but I was lucky enough to get mine done before he went sour....

 

this is always coming up. theres not really anyone local to do it besides who pete mentioned.

there are a few guys who do it through mail though.

 

sending it off an then waitin 4 him to send it back could take 4 ever. ive seen ones wit the led change but im still skeptical about sendin it away where it could get lost in the mail or broken on the way back...

 

well, its either that or nothin.

 

i think i rather get someone who knows his/her solder!

 

I'm fixing to do mine this weekend, I already ordered the LEDs, hopefully it'll be in by then. I've never done this before but I soldered a lot of stuff on circuit board being an electrical engineer

Will let you know how it turns out

 

just got mine done! looks real good post pics tomorrow night im tired

thanx to vortex

 

So far, including mine, I did 4 tC already, no problem

If anybody interested, PM me

Check out my profile : https://www.scionlife.com/profile/V0RT3X

 

these are daytime pics... from my camera phone.

 

I can help you tC guys out there if you can bring it to me. I have been soldering for years, including quite a bit of SMT soldering in a PC lab for Compaq Computer. I have swapped out LEDs in other cars, including my xB. It is not a difficult thing to do once you get the hang of slinging some solder. The trick is to just take things slowly and get it done right the first time.
According to a few older posts on this topic, there are some voltage issues with regards to using white or blue LEDs versus green, red, amber, etc.. White and blue LEDs require a little more voltage to operate than the other colors do. Supposedly, when using white or blue, the LEDs light very dimly and are difficult to see. One post on SL even mentions cutting traces and installing wire mods on the circuit board to resolve this issue. I am not sure how accurate this is because I have not done a tC yet, but it seems somewhat far fetched. I have not had issues installing LEDs in any other cars and I have been using blue LEDs for quite some time. My xB uses all blue and mine are bright enough to be seen during the day!
If any of you are interested, you can PM me.

 

yea there are brightness issues when redoing the LEDs in the HVAC. theres a guy areound who made a fix for it and its somewhere around here.

 

It's been done to death

Like I mentioned, I did 4 tC already, with that brightness fix. If you dont know how to do a tC, I would suggest you read up on it first before you get ur hand on one because it's a little more complicated than simply remove old LED, install new LED