honestly it was exactly how you did yours. i stole a strip of LEDs from my friend that had the same pack of StreetGlow OPTX as yours. so i did exactly what you did! i cut the old orange light off and i spliced the wires from the strip. they dont light the entire PRNDS evenly and more concentrates on the DS+- but i like it like that!

the only quirk about my light setup is that the premium head unit light is better described as sky blue and the other lights are a more pure blue.

 

Hey dasaint80,

I must say thanks for the LED Swap tutorial w/ the outstanding pics. It made the swap amazingly easy!

cc

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I'm not driving fast, I'm just flyin low...

 

Success here too, thanks for the great tutorial!

 

Oh yea pictures... here it is with my home brewed custom xB gauge

 

w00t! crazy gauge face! looks hella nice where did you get that?

 

heh thanks man, I made it... I was quite proud of it because i have never really modded cars before and I was starting to *really* enjoy bluing out the LEDs, I had no clue it would even turn out anywhere as nice. I've been working on a tutorial so that people can make their own with standard photo glossy paper, but I have a lot of things on my to do list before I can get to that.

 

I guess I can talk briefly about how I made it here though since it'll probably take a lot of time before I get to making the tutorial...

DIY CUSTOM GAUGE BY UNITY303:
1) I scanned the 2 original layers (one that is normal and one with all the icons for temperature/dooropen/brakes/etc, by shining a light source on top of the scanner while it was scanning) into my computer,
2) Photoshopped the two layers on top of each other,
3) Overlay designs,
4) Create a 3rd blocking layer that blocks out any design that unintentionally bleeds into visible areas,
5) Fitted to print size, (reprint and resize as necessary)
6) Printed on normal Photo Glossy Film Paper from a color inkjet, I used a cheap old 1440dpi inkjet from eBay (Epson Stylus Scan 2500).

WARNING:
On the XB, the GREEN CRUISE ICON is hard to see during the day because the photo glossy film paper doesn't let the Green LED light pass through very well. It looks fine at night though. Now that I think about it, if I replaced it with a Blue LED it would probably be visible during the day.

IF YOU WANT ONE OF THESE:
Hmm I don't want to design these for other people... but I could just print up some more of the ones I already designed and send them out if anybody wants. PM me for cost if ur really interested I can have an amber version (instead of blue) that I can print

 

Just FYI anyone interested... the DIY Tutorial

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=206424

 

Bookmarked. I got to remember where this post is.

 

So I am sorta unhappy about my led purchase from ebay. 3 dollars of leds, but the shipping was 12bucks?

 

/\ yea, thats how they get you. I once bought a set of underglow lights for $.01 but the shipping was $35

 

But if you look at the same products from the same sellers, you'll see say they'll have the LED's for like 10 bucks with 5 shipping.. Either way, you're gonna end up spending 15 for the whole works.. look at the other prices.. you'll see that the morre expensive ones will have cheaper shipping, making everything equal or dammn close to it.. The lower price just attracts the eye.. jh

 

mouser.com forget ebay

 

I ordered and received 800 mcd LEDs, (lvbitwiz and jh look like they both used 500....) So, once I get my box back from a depressing longhaul of crap, I'll start modding this!

 

Can you post up a link to those 800 mcd's., vertex .. i want to see those,...........Did you get them thru mouser?? i may up-grade to the brighter ones once YOU tell us where to get them.... jh

 

I ordered from these fellas: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=260202805362
Same company as mentioned earlier I believe. Took a LONG time for the shipping, but oh well. I will be posting pictures when this is complete.
I planned on getting a custom plate from LEDmod as well. Not sure if I'll do that, or just print my own, or print my own and get a face later. haha.

 

Those are def the people to get LEDs from. Shipping does take a while, but if you order in bulk the prices can't be beat.... even including shipping.

 

what other colors can you do?

 

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...fsoo%3D1&fgtp=

Looks like all kinds of colors are available... jh

 

They have every color you need. I ordered some pink ones for a guy that did it for his GF.... those were some serious pink LEDs.

In my book, those people linked are the best people to deal with. Cheap, fast (for hong kong anyways), and very good quality. Not to mention friendly and willing to help you out in anyway you need.