I am writing up this post to hopefully help all the people that are on the fence in doing the LED conversion on their own. Before this mod I had no soldering experience other then knowing what an Iron was. Through all the posts in this forum I was able to gather the "material" and "how to guide." It came out great!

Site that I bought the Leds!
http://www.lc-led.com/View/itemNumber/98 (for the blue) they also have other colors
shipping came in two days

Walkthroughs
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37747 (gauge & hvac)
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...asc&highlight= (doors)
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=91321 (steering wheel 06' only)
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=77876 (hvac mod for blue and white and props to engifineer! )

Outcome
https://www.scionlife.com/gallery/personal/31459_4.jpg
HVAC
https://www.scionlife.com/gallery/personal/31459_3.jpg
Gauges
https://www.scionlife.com/gallery/personal/31459_5.jpg
Door

Sorry about the pics camera phone and the steering wheels is also done but not shown.

Closing
I know that alot of things have been written about this mod but I wanted to get the point across that it is not that difficult. I can be done with some time and patients. I had no soldering experience and I love how it came out. The doors, steering wheel and gauges are all very simple to remove and change. The HVAC is a bit more difficult espceially if you are going blue. But engifineer's mod works great. By applying this the car has a much better overall look.
SO for all you unsure about attempting this or who are neverious about completing this mod I say go for it. Just watch out for the HVAC LCD!!

 

Looks like you did pretty good. Blue is definitely a nice color in there. It's something I have on my "list" as well.

When I put a few of those walkthroughs in the tech section, I tried to make sure they were labelled similar in there so someone could find all of them. It's good to see someone getting some use out of all of them!

 

^-- ack thanks for the comments. I love the look the blue gives. The tech articles are what allowed me to complete this. Thanks to all who contribute to this site and I hope that this post will help others.

 

props on havin the kahonees to do it urself. looks great!!

 

jq is right. easy, BUT it does require lots of patience and time. thats why i had engifneer do my gauges and console. i finnaly finished my doors a few minutes ago. looks great!!!!!

 

wish i had the patience and the steady hand for that! Looks good!

 

i need to grow some ***** and try this mod out.

 

yea I think i will def have to grow a pair and do this mod to, have been obsessed with all the posts on this topic and now hearing it from someone with hardly any exp. sayin its pretty easy, that all but seals it for me. And I guess I always have my electrician father in law as back up.. I cant wait to be free of the awful glow of AMBER!!! lol

 

It really was not that difficult. I got the 15 watt Iron and 60/40 .082 solder from radio shack. And if you are going blue I also got the hook up wire and resistors from radio shack as well. All in all it cost me around 60 w/ shipping for 40 leds, and 19 for all the parts from Radio Shack. To pay only 80 buck to get rid of that annoying amber and have a project that you completed yourself is well worth it. I started small and did the steering wheel controls first. I want to get some confidence in doing this and figured that this is the smallest (and cheapest piece) if I was to screw up. From there it was all down hill. I
moved on to the doors and then to the gauges and finally ended on the hvac.

Best of luck to all that go for it....its worth it, given the new look

If anyone in the B-town, MA area is looking to have this done or needs help hit me up (pm).

 

This is awesome, thanks!

 

i've always wanted to do this but didn't want to risk screwing it up. Props to you man, looks good. I think i might finally try it. ill sart with the easy one fisrt, the steering wheel right?

 

Looks good, man! I think I might try (or have it done) this summer. I like how you included the other people's threads in your's. Its nice to have EVERYTHING in one thread! On a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is this? I want to try, but I'm afraid I'll screw it up! Thanks again for the very informative thread!

 

your right start w/ the steering wheel, it only take two bolts removed with a T30 torque bit, and 1 screw w/ a philips. The board has only 3 leds to replace.


On a scale of 1 to 10 the doors gauge and steerwheel are a 4, as for the HVAC if you go blue is around a 7, but it is nothing that you cant complete w/ out a bit of paticents. just don't rush it. Follow the walkthroughs. The previous people of this forum did a great job in making sure to include all steps and possible mishaps.
Good Luck

 

it looks really good in person. try it. not to difficult.

 

dumb question: Why is doing blue harder than another color?

 

actually... anything but red is harder to do.

with blue, white, and green, you will need to do engifineer's fix on the center console, which takes a bit of time.

red doesn't need all that extra work.

 

squall is right. Any color other than red requires a higher voltage to look as bright as the oem does. The blue, white, green, etc all work fine in the doors, gauges, and steering wheel controls. As for the HVAC you have to up the voltage on the board to make them as bright as the rest of the car. Eng has come up w/ a mod for doing this and it works perfectly. This will allow the HVAC to be as bright as the rest of the led's. Eng's mod is linked above to the orginal post, click on it to see how it is done.
although red is easier to complete, IMOP the blue looks better and is worth the addition work.

 

yeah, engifineer does a really good job.

 

good job man.. i wanna do this too, maybe i could get you to help me with it since you're in boston? =P

 

^^------hit me up with a pm and we can try to work something out.