Got tired of looking at the same old boring dash so I did some upgrades.
1st mod was painting the gray gauge face bezel black. I went to home depot and bought some Krylon Black paint that adheres specially to plastic.








Then i bought suede type dash board cover that has a custom embriodered saying I thought went well with my xb







Then I purchases a cheap Spectre air filter and carbon fiber engine cover from fastscions.com

 

did you prep the plastic before painting it? have seen paint crack and chip when not prepped properly

 

lookin good very clean
where did you get the dash cover?

 

i'll find out tomorrow i have the wesite saved on my work computer but they just go through the company dash mat.

 

looks good. where did you get the gauges? if they had some the matched the hvac controls, i wouldnt mind getting some.

 

ya i light sanded it and primered it and sanded the primer down then painted it

 

you talking about these







Sean the owner of LedMod.com did all the work on the gauge face, led for the gauge face, and the led in the climate control. You cant tell from the pic of the climate controls but the blues and red are very bright and are true to blue and red, they dont look orange or purple pics dont do it justice he does incredible work.

he works out of Nevada and So Cal in orange county close to CSUF.

http://store.ledmod.com/

 

looking good!

 

OP, how much did you spend total labor/parts on the led replacements for your guages and climate control? They look really good!

 

In the end if I remember correctly he charged me around $320. It seems like alot, but the gauge face is done so good it really looks like an OEM part. Almost like an option accessorie on the car. It's not one of those cheap print out and you just lay it over the existing oem gauge face.

When I ordered mine he told me that I can customize it to any color, any picture or design that I may have had. I use to have Autobot emblems on my xb and he said he's be able to make the gauge face template with the Autobot symbol in place of the Scion logo.

 

Wow, thats great looking. I too have thought about a dash cover, but my co workers say the carbon fiber look of the dash looks cool, both the xa and xb

 

Great job! I really like what you've done so far.

 

Thanks everyone for the love,support, & good feed back. I think my next big thing to do is my audio. I'm thinking of a stealth set up maybe 2 amps & 2 subs in the back on the floor. The only thing I want to keep my spare since this is my daily driver. So we'll see what happens next.